Need a price please.

[Big_Dog]

My daughter managed to put her car down a ditch last Saturday. The insurance company with a sailors hat on are pricing the cat at £1300 its a Clio Dynamique 1.2 with about 60k miles and on a 53 plate.
They are telling me the price is from Glasses. I really need to know if that is retail as I cannot find a similar car for the money they are offering.
Help please?

[Blackpuddin]

http://www.whatcar.com/valuations

[walm]

Tell them to eff off.
Always reject the first couple of offers.

Remember all the one-off extra additions on the car that make it very rare and a highly valuable limited edition - they are key to this process.

Find similar examples of the car on autotrader and PH.
Pop the live links in an email.
Demand that they send your daughter a cheque for that amount.

[walm]

This one would do.
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3833973.htm

Remember they should be paying you the amount that allows you to go and buy a car today that will exactly replace the old one.
What some theoretical guide says about the price two months ago is useless.
If you provide real world examples they have to pay up.

[Big_Dog]

Thanks, the whatcar price is a lot better.

[toon10]

walm said:

Tell them to eff off.
Always reject the first couple of offers.

Remember all the one-off extra additions on the car that make it very rare and a highly valuable limited edition - they are key to this process.

Find similar examples of the car on autotrader and PH.
Pop the live links in an email.
Demand that they send your daughter a cheque for that amount.

This. An old Beetle decided that my old Suzuki Swift needed some panel re-arranging and pulled out of a junction straight into me. The car was a write off (too costly to repair) and they made me an offer. I said no and put in some examples from Autotrader magazine (the internet wasn't so big back in '92) They upped their offer and I accepted an extra £600 in the end.