Happy New Year - Not for me

Happy New Year - Not for me

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Jhonno

5,900 posts

147 months

Wednesday 29th May 2013
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Don1

16,057 posts

214 months

Wednesday 29th May 2013
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D14 AYS said:
D1ckie said:
received an email yesterday from the insurers offering me a further settlement on the vehicle
I think this in its self is pretty telling! If that's not an admission of a cock up I dont know what is! Good luck with it.
Yep. I trust the 'further settlement' is around the £60k area to replace your car with the minimum of problems... biggrin

chazuk

82 posts

237 months

Wednesday 29th May 2013
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Thanks for the update D1ckie , I bet the insurance company is shi***** bricks over this ,funny how it all played into the salvage company hands far too easy! From a sag that was not allowed to go back on the road to one that is that's some price difference in resale value

rigga

8,748 posts

207 months

Thursday 30th May 2013
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Jhonno said:
D14 AYS said:
The advert seems to have gone! Good or bad thing?
Advert is still on evilBay..
Where did they get the picture of the car pre accident ? ...also the quote "visit us for a test drive "might be a bit optimistic.

tvrboy55

185 posts

176 months

Saturday 1st June 2013
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hi all. has anybody thought of something between the engineer and the salvage yard that may have a connections. lets just say i make a car catB and pass it to the salvage yard and makes it catC i then receive bung payment. dos that sound logic to anybody, and if so he may have a history, not only in tvr models but, in all the models.

R11ysf

1,948 posts

188 months

Wednesday 12th June 2013
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Hi D1ckie,
Is there any further update on this?

D1ckie

Original Poster:

740 posts

196 months

Sunday 30th June 2013
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So a bit of an update....

I've received a further payout from the insurance company, however this apprears to be because they originally said my settlement was based on my agreed insurance value, then in subsequent correspondence they said I didnt have a guranteed value. So when I asked if my claim was paid on market value they said yes, so then claimed that there market value was not where the market value is!!!! Bingo, another payment.

However the issue of the change in classification has not changed and if I want to pursue I have to claim to Lloyds, the insurance HQ!!! Havent decided if I will go that way yet as been away a lot recently but will review when I get home next week. But pursuing aint going to get my car back and I certainly wouldnt want it back now after being with the salvage yard for months.... not sure how many parts would have been removed / lost since they received it

Not much more to advise, they feel they didnt have to advise me of the change in classification, i feel differently.

Car seems to have now disappeared from classifieds so not sure if has been sold or not.

Insurance company confirmed that the car was sold as a Cat B and they were paid as Cat B, I think the issue is more to do with the insurance assessor maybe being friendly with the breakers.... but not sure. As I stated they have never actually seen the car until after it was collected from me and delivered to the salvage yard and I'd been paid out.


Ant.

5,254 posts

287 months

Sunday 30th June 2013
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glow worm

6,155 posts

233 months

Sunday 30th June 2013
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glow worm said:
In my opinion it's the insurance company who should have an issue with their assessor:-

Firstly he assesses a car to be Cat B valued at £5k then changes his mind and says it Cat C at £8k
Secondly as a Cat C car with no work being done on it , it goes up for sale at £22.5k giving a nice profit for someone with little effort.

I think the assessor has a few questions to answer.
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tvrboy55

185 posts

176 months

Monday 1st July 2013
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that's exactly what i said in my post further up the page. it's wide spread corruption.

gordonsalive

446 posts

193 months

Wednesday 3rd July 2013
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glow worm said:
In my opinion it's the insurance company who should have an issue with their assessor:-

Firstly he assesses a car to be Cat B valued at £5k then changes his mind and says it Cat C at £8k
Secondly as a Cat C car with no work being done on it , it goes up for sale at £22.5k giving a nice profit for someone with little effort.

I think the assessor has a few questions to answer.
I also think the HMRC should take a look at Mr Assessors possessions/holidays/lifestyle/etc. to see whether his after tax income supports his expenditure.
Aside from that D1ckie, how does the MP4 rate against the Sag?

Jhonno

5,900 posts

147 months

Wednesday 3rd July 2013
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Ant. said:
Window open..

Ant.

5,254 posts

287 months

Wednesday 3rd July 2013
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Jhonno said:
Window open..
I am sure that is being stored indoors, all covered up and everything !!! (being ironic before I get flamed)

D1ckie

Original Poster:

740 posts

196 months

Thursday 4th July 2013
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gordonsalive said:
I also think the HMRC should take a look at Mr Assessors possessions/holidays/lifestyle/etc. to see whether his after tax income supports his expenditure.
Aside from that D1ckie, how does the MP4 rate against the Sag?
Hi, it's a completely different animal, simple and easy at 30 then an absolute monster if you want it to be..... goes round corners better than the Sag
In terms of attention I'd say its 50/50
Still looking for another, just waiting for the right car!!!

glow worm

6,155 posts

233 months

Thursday 4th July 2013
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D1ckie said:
Still looking for another, just waiting for the right car!!!
Dom's 5 Litre Sag maybe ? smile .

D1ckie

Original Poster:

740 posts

196 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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WOW how times flies, just stumbled across this thread so had a good re read and thought I'd update.

The car is back on the road again. I received an email a couple of years ago from the guy who had bought it and re built it, sent me lots of pics and wow the car looks amazing.......I miss it again now!!!!

I wont post the pics on here as its not for me to do so, but he has done an excellent job and it looks amazing.....


Apologies for the thread resurection



pacato

40 posts

135 months

Saturday 2nd June 2018
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D1ckie said:
WOW how times flies, just stumbled across this thread so had a good re read and thought I'd update.

The car is back on the road again. I received an email a couple of years ago from the guy who had bought it and re built it, sent me lots of pics and wow the car looks amazing.......I miss it again now!!!!

I wont post the pics on here as its not for me to do so, but he has done an excellent job and it looks amazing.....


Apologies for the thread resurection
Hi mate!
Here it is again; indeed time flies by! So many things are done since our last contact, still the car is running so nice! At last we did a colour change to spectraflair silver:





Best wishes!

D1ckie

Original Poster:

740 posts

196 months

Monday 4th June 2018
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pacato said:
Hi mate!
Here it is again; indeed time flies by! So many things are done since our last contact, still the car is running so nice! At last we did a colour change to spectraflair silver:





Best wishes!
Looks really good, hope you are still enjoying it biggrin