Cat D Repairable on Ebay & a flying Pig!

[Petrolhead_Rich]

Just seen this on ebay:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2010-VOLVO-S40-R-DESIGN-...

How in all that is holy is that "cat D - repairable"???

The nearside is crumpled right into the rear door and the offside shows signs of deformation by the rear wheelarch, not to mention the nearside rear wheel is about 4" further forward than it should be!

Is this really a Cat D??

[Astra Dan]

I thought Cat Ds didn't need any repair work to keep using the vehicle.

Obviously not in that case! That's knackered. Not even low mileage for it's age.

[mat777]

I think they are being optimistic/bent in the hope that it never gets recorded on the car's history (IIRC only cat c and above have to be recorded?)

[s3fella]

It looks pretty mint apart from the back end and doesn't seem that bad. Once stripped and given a quick tug it'd look a lot better.
It's not an obvious cat c, that's for sure. At the end of the day, the shells are spot welded together, so unpick it amd weld on new bits and it would straighten ok.

Suspension looks fairly ok, but may have had a tweak. I'd think it was assessed at about 9 to 10k to repair via insurance bodyshops.

[JPearson]

Astra Dan said:

I thought Cat Ds didn't need any repair work to keep using the vehicle.

Obviously not in that case! That's knackered. Not even low mileage for it's age.

CAT D is light panel damage, I'd say thats more of a CAT B as the support beam at the rear had been pushed well back!

[TallPaul]

JPearson said:

CAT D is light panel damage, I'd say thats more of a CAT B as the support beam at the rear had been pushed well back!

What is the support beam?

[s3fella]

JPearson said:

Astra Dan said:

I thought Cat Ds didn't need any repair work to keep using the vehicle.

Obviously not in that case! That's knackered. Not even low mileage for it's age.

CAT D is light panel damage, I'd say thats more of a CAT B as the support beam at the rear had been pushed well back!

Rubbish on so many levels!
If it were cat b it would be a spares only car. No need to break that one up.

[Krikkit]

Cat. D is generally repairable but not done due to non-repair factors making repair uneconomical (i.e. hire car costs etc). Cat. C is the repair itself being uneconomical (which I'd say this should be, needing a whole new rear end).

Cat. B is bad enough that it's beyond rejigging to get it back on the road, so spares only.

[va1o]

I suspect there isn't much consistency in the categorisations as I've seen Cat Cs not as bad as that. Have also seen Cat Bs make it back on the road...

[CBR JGWRR]

Krikkit said:

Cat. D is generally repairable but not done due to non-repair factors making repair uneconomical (i.e. hire car costs etc). Cat. C is the repair itself being uneconomical (which I'd say this should be, needing a whole new rear end).

Cat. B is bad enough that it's beyond rejigging to get it back on the road, so spares only.

And Cat A must be destroyed totally, not even for spares.


I certainly doubt that's a Cat D...

[pingu393]

va1o said:

Have also seen Cat Bs make it back on the road...

I didn't think that should happen. Were they legally put back on the road with the original details?

[skene]

Is this where Volvo got the idea for the C30?

[Eighteeteewhy]

[traffman]

Thats not bad , i work across from Crams in falkirk and some of the fubared stuff that gets rebuilt there is unreal.

[snuffle]

Oh good another thread with some people posting total bolcks about Cat status vehicles.

Edited by snuffle on Tuesday 5th June 18:19

[va1o]

pingu393 said:

va1o said:

Have also seen Cat Bs make it back on the road...

I didn't think that should happen. Were they legally put back on the road with the original details?

Agreed, couple on eBay at the moment items 261039277096 and 320899979194

[TallPaul]

snuffle said:

Oh good another thread with some people posting total bolcks about Cat status vehicles.

Par for the course here though, why let facts (or even the law) get in the way?

[HeatonNorris]

va1o said:

Agreed, couple on eBay at the moment items 261039277096 and 320899979194

That first one is dodgy as hell! - it's a 1-series, ffs.

[CAPP0]

I had a poke around a salvage yard recently. It's all to do with the car's value (pre, and possibly post, accident).

Two examples at opposite ends of the spectrum:

A 61 plate Fiesta, with just SIXTY, 60, 6....zero.....miles on the clock. Very heavy frontal, both legs completely done it, and it's a Cat D.

Merc A class, much older, but it needs a headlight and a wishbone to start driving it again; Cat C.

As above, all down to the vehicle's value and not (necessarily) a true representation of the extent of the damage.

[stewartcampbell]

HeatonNorris said:

That first one is dodgy as hell! - it's a 1-series, ffs.

A 1 series, what the f@*k are you talking about, its a 3 series coupe.