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Hi folks
Wifey's Ioniq hybrid was rear-ended on her way to work this morning. I'm awaiting the insurer to come collect the car. I went out to her this morning, ripped off the dangly bits and drove it home. It drove fine, but the boot is clearly out of alignment as the wind noise was loud.
Circled in yellow is badly stoved in, that's the part of the rear tub/ boot floor. Circled in orange, the rear quarter is a good 4 or 5mm raised above the boot line
Car is worth about £13k on a wbac type site.
What say you? Saveable?
Wifey's Ioniq hybrid was rear-ended on her way to work this morning. I'm awaiting the insurer to come collect the car. I went out to her this morning, ripped off the dangly bits and drove it home. It drove fine, but the boot is clearly out of alignment as the wind noise was loud.
Circled in yellow is badly stoved in, that's the part of the rear tub/ boot floor. Circled in orange, the rear quarter is a good 4 or 5mm raised above the boot line
Car is worth about £13k on a wbac type site.
What say you? Saveable?
Thanks to the mods for binning this into the doldrums where nobody will ever see it 
If you do happen to chance up this post, I took it to 3 Bodyshop’s yesterday to get a rough cost to repair should it be written off and I get to retain the salvage.
They all told me it would most likely be a write off, not necessarily for repair reason but parts available on the eastern market cars right now is so painful that hire costs aren’t worth running up. They said their Bodyshop’s are all full of cars awaiting parts and they said Hyundai were one of the worst.
Also they reckon some of the insurers are buying cars up because salvage prices are so high and disposing of them through copart et al for others to sit on them awaiting the parts instead
If you do happen to chance up this post, I took it to 3 Bodyshop’s yesterday to get a rough cost to repair should it be written off and I get to retain the salvage.
They all told me it would most likely be a write off, not necessarily for repair reason but parts available on the eastern market cars right now is so painful that hire costs aren’t worth running up. They said their Bodyshop’s are all full of cars awaiting parts and they said Hyundai were one of the worst.
Also they reckon some of the insurers are buying cars up because salvage prices are so high and disposing of them through copart et al for others to sit on them awaiting the parts instead
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