Help! Insurance trying to rip me off!
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Maz Tuscanesse said:
I am hoping someone on here may be able to help me.
A couple of weeks ago I was travelling from my home in Buckinghamshire to visit a friend in Swansea as I tend to do every couple of months. As I was driving down the A404 just a couple of miles away, at the roundabout halfway to the M4, I ran into the back of a guy in a black Renault Meganne.
This proved to be a disaster with him gaining a little purple stain on the bumper of the Meganne and my beloved little Tuscan now being written off. However, not being satisfied with the car in essence, no longer existing, the insurance company have offered me a paltry £9,600 in settlement.
Because I had looked after the car (and it had had more than one engine) there were more than 100,000 miles on the clock and the insurance company are saying they cannot find another car with that number of miles in order to do a comparison. The guy who owns the garage that always looked after the car said it was worth £16,000. Now I’m not being greedy and I’d settle for less than £16,000, but £9,600?????
So my plea is this:
Is there anyone on here who can tell me of a TVR with over 100,000 miles on the clock that was on sale for around £16,000? I already have one example of a Tamora that was on sale for £14,000 but if I could get a couple of Tuscans so I can at least try and get enough money back to buy another car, that would be brilliant.
I really hope one of you can help me…
I have you old car now A couple of weeks ago I was travelling from my home in Buckinghamshire to visit a friend in Swansea as I tend to do every couple of months. As I was driving down the A404 just a couple of miles away, at the roundabout halfway to the M4, I ran into the back of a guy in a black Renault Meganne.
This proved to be a disaster with him gaining a little purple stain on the bumper of the Meganne and my beloved little Tuscan now being written off. However, not being satisfied with the car in essence, no longer existing, the insurance company have offered me a paltry £9,600 in settlement.
Because I had looked after the car (and it had had more than one engine) there were more than 100,000 miles on the clock and the insurance company are saying they cannot find another car with that number of miles in order to do a comparison. The guy who owns the garage that always looked after the car said it was worth £16,000. Now I’m not being greedy and I’d settle for less than £16,000, but £9,600?????
So my plea is this:
Is there anyone on here who can tell me of a TVR with over 100,000 miles on the clock that was on sale for around £16,000? I already have one example of a Tamora that was on sale for £14,000 but if I could get a couple of Tuscans so I can at least try and get enough money back to buy another car, that would be brilliant.
I really hope one of you can help me…
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