Tuscan chassis repairs....

[craigievee]

Hi...lookin at a tuscan on ebay just now.Its an accident damaged 2001 4.0 and has a fair bit of bodywork required..... but thats not really a problem, the problem is that the seller mentions the n/s chassis outrigger is damaged. So my questions are...how easy are tuscan chassis to repair and at what kind of cost?has anyone on here attempted it?And is it worth it? Any help/advice would be great...thanks craig

heres a link to the page.... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

[BJWoods]

i would say dont be tempted ......

It is not going to be economical to repair in time or money..

It will always be a cat c damaged repairable...

You can pick up a very good selection of tuscans, undamaged, not cat c from 14k upwards..

B

[tuscandom]

i am mid way of repairing a cat c tuscan(outrigger damage not really a problem,i had the same ),the one on ebay is way to expensive,by the time you have purchased the parts you would be nearly at the price of a straight second hand one,hope this helps

[davido140]

I looked at going this route before I bought mine, I did some rough procing up and unless you pay bargain basement prices for the damaged car it is not cost effective, even after repairs your total spent wants to be way less than the same car would have cost undamaged (as it will always be a cat C / D and very hard to sell)

[demon_jako]

Hi,

Sorry but I'm going to ask a really stupid question!

What exactly is Category C and Category D?

Is this to do with classifying cars that have been repaired after accidents?
Or am I way off?

Please don't take the P1$$ too much

Paul

Edited by demon_jako on Thursday 28th June 12:42

[JOSHKY]

cat d , means its been in an accident or damaged and insurance company decided not to repair it , as it would cost more than what car was worth, but insurers paid out on it, then it was sold as salvage or previous owner bought it back off insurers for next to nothing and repaired it
cat d is not so bad it means damage was only light
cat c it would have been worse damage. Cat d or above wont show on log book. Cat c will as they need to go for a vic test.

Category A and B should never be returned to the road. A Category B write off is one that is so badly damaged it can only be used for the salvaging of spare parts, while a Category A is one that is sent to the crusher.

[demon_jako]

Thanks,

Guess I was about right but I got the severity the wrong way round
(I thought it was worse as it got higher in alphabet not lower)

Paul