CAT D

[GC8]

Ive seen lightly damaged cars with destruction orders on them and slaughtered cars up for repair. Ive also seen too many fatal accident cars sold for parts.

Insurance companies are greedy, something which isnt accounted for by those reading the public ABI website.

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n0v0s said:

I have purchased/sold the odd cat c/d for the last few years.. And from what i've seen, some old cars can be written off as a cat c and have f*ck all wrong with them, some newer cat D's can be absolutely destroyed. But then this works the other way round too. Very random and depends on multiple factors.

^^^ This 100%

There is NO hard and fast rule.

A mate is a salvage dealer specialising in Porsche and I've seen hundreds of smashed Porsches and you couldn't guess the categories - some really nice cars have been classified as break only as the cost of genuine parts is massively high yet could easily make sense to be rebuilt using a donor vehicle as they were all simple bolt on parts.

Similarly I've seen a 911 Cab with the entire rear corner vapourised (including the wheel, suspension etc) and that was a Cat D.