Would you buy a cat C?
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I had a 97 Saab 9000 Aero that was a Cat C repair. It was absolutely fine, drove my firstborn home from hospital in it.
The key to this is when the damage happened. On mine, it happened in 2005, when the car was worth very little anyway, and therefore was written off for fairly minor damage - rear door and rear wing in my case, the latter being the expensive to fix problem, I think. If your car was a Cat C in, say, 2000, when it was nearly new, it'd have taken a LOT of damage to write it off. If it happened in 2009, it'd not take very much at all to write it off.
Good luck. Depends on the car in question of course, but mine was absolutely fine, and I had no trouble at all selling it on either.
The key to this is when the damage happened. On mine, it happened in 2005, when the car was worth very little anyway, and therefore was written off for fairly minor damage - rear door and rear wing in my case, the latter being the expensive to fix problem, I think. If your car was a Cat C in, say, 2000, when it was nearly new, it'd have taken a LOT of damage to write it off. If it happened in 2009, it'd not take very much at all to write it off.
Good luck. Depends on the car in question of course, but mine was absolutely fine, and I had no trouble at all selling it on either.
By co-incidence today, i saw a bit of fifth gear where they tested cars that had been put back onto the road.
They bought an X and S reg focus and crashed them head on a 30mph.
The X had been repaired and crumpled 4-5 inches too much into the cabin, forced the pedals back into the drivers legs and moved the whole dash.
The S was badly damaged but with very little intrusion into the driver area.
The X had two mot's conducted at the same time by 2 different garages and was fully on the road legally. The chassis had been repaired but the integrity of it had been weakend considerably, something that only became apparent when it was too late in the crash.
Obviously depends on the damage that made it a Cat C, but i'd be careful.
They bought an X and S reg focus and crashed them head on a 30mph.
The X had been repaired and crumpled 4-5 inches too much into the cabin, forced the pedals back into the drivers legs and moved the whole dash.
The S was badly damaged but with very little intrusion into the driver area.
The X had two mot's conducted at the same time by 2 different garages and was fully on the road legally. The chassis had been repaired but the integrity of it had been weakend considerably, something that only became apparent when it was too late in the crash.
Obviously depends on the damage that made it a Cat C, but i'd be careful.
Edited by Acheron on Monday 13th September 23:04
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