wazza

If you do need some advice I'm a structural engineer... I can make some comments on the previous report if you like too Cracking around bay windows is quite common, and can be caused by a differential settlement between the house foundations and the shallow footing to the bay window. Afraid I have only skim read your post but get in touch if you need any advice. Waz

Red VR in the Stourport manor car park last night, looked tidy :)

Same story for me, with Chris Knott at the mo but renewal is due in october so i gave these guys a call to test the water. I'm currently paying about £460 fully comp, with business use, parked on driveway and 7 years no claims. Classic car quoted me £387 with my no claims protected (which it isn't at the mo) but with a slight increase in excess to £350. Looks like Chris Knott have got some work to do to match that...

The thought did cross my mind, but its not the same...

Renew time coming up for me, but, seeing as you haven't been very competitive in previous years what can you offer this time around?! Afraid i have lost faith is insurance companies being 'competitive' these days!

Thats decided it for me - looking at that photo i'm going for a full respray! (same colour, mine just looks a little tired these days). Good luck with the sale.

Probably me, it's about as far as it goes these days! Off the road temporarily at the mo after I had a bump but it'll soon be back at Sainsbury's for the weekly shop!

Good to hear of another rado in Kiddy - we were getting a bit thin on the ground round here! I'm out and about around town in mine every now and then and my brother has a mkII scirocco, only thats garaged while he's working in Oz. Welcome to the forum and maybe see you around and about! Waz

Thanks for letting me know, fingers crossed for me, I'd prefer to buy from someone on the forum than a breaker on ebay!

Bump....

Hi, Am I too late for the passenger front wing? I kissed the back of a taxi with mine..... :-( Ta

Yep, i'm watching that one at the mo....

Unfortunately, what everyone has said and the route you're going along is correct. Persuading a building inspector to deviate from the norm is almost always impossible as at the end of the day its his neck on the line should you have problems in the future. Unfortunately trees, clay soils and foundations aren't a good combination and on many occasion I have had to specify piled foundations for the smallest of structures, regardless of the fact that the neighbouring properties are still standing after 50 years of being located 3m away from trees twice their height.... Unfortunately, a competent building should know this, as should an architect. Possibly scope to negotiate the additional costs with these two maybe....? Always happy to help... Your local resident Structural Engineer. Waz

As it says really, must be in good condition and ideally in ice grey violet.... but is that too much to ask? I'm in the midlands and am prepared to collect within a reasonable distance but if you could also quote me for postage as an option that would be great. Thanks Waz

Well, we don't need to worry any more. The car has been declared a Cat B write-off - estimated repairs totalling over £11k including a new shell! So, just need to wait for the cheque and gap insurance now (which was worth getting in this instance) and we'll soon be in our new MK6 Golf :-) Thanks for the advice guys.

Thanks guys. The warranty for the repairs is my biggest issue. The car is only 2 years old, will have 10 years left on the Seat paint warranty so I'm going to be insisting on a 10 year guarantee for the repairs as the case law states that the car is to be returned to the pre-crash condition. By the way there is no dispute to fault however the insurance is still taking way too long! Three weeks before they got round to assessing the car and we're supposed to be hearing from them today what the results of that are but no news yet, despite there being hire car charges being accrued every day!

Thanks for the advice guys. Does anyone know if you can put up much of an arguement against having it repaired? The more we think about it the less we want to have it back, it'll never be the same car for a start and i was worrying about how the repairs will fair over time as we were intending on keeping this car for quite some time. By the way, it looks like the floorpan has been bent also - the amount the bumper has been folded in is incredible - there's nothing left of the boot! I'm also concerned about how they'd go about replacing the rear quarters - both would need replacing as although not badly damagedm the drivers side door is also slightly out of alignment with the rear quarter. Can these panels just be cut out, and if so, surely the replacements will never fit quite as well and the car will pretty much need a full respray won't it? I can't figure out where each panel extends to but i'd thought that the rear quarter was all one section with the roof?

Just over 3 weeks ago now my partner had a 7.5tonne truck run into the back of her Seat Ibiza. Thankfully she was given the ok after a trip to A&E and has only suffered from whiplash. The car however didn't fare so well and everyone that has seen it considered it to be a write off. We went via our insurance to a claims management company who haven't been particularly pro-active in sorting things out with the other insurance company and 3 weeks later we're still waiting to see their report of the damage to the car. In the mean time we thought we'd cover ourselves for the worst case and went and looked at replacement cars and ended up putting a deposit on another car, risky i know, but we found a good deal and i considered it worth the risk of loosing the deposit if our car was repairable. From talking with the 3rd parties insurance directly (my partner got fed up of chasing the accident management company) they seem to think that the car is repairable but i just can't see how that is possible. We've had a hire car for 3 weeks now and we'll have it at a guess for at least another 3 weeks if the car is to be repaired. The car is valued at approx £10k and i can't see how the repairs could be carried out within budget when we have been told that generally they'll consider it a write off if the value of repairs etc exceed 75% of the value of the car. We do want out old car back, but I can't see how this can be economically repaired when considering the damage it sustained and we don't like the thought of having it back after it had been damaged so badly. Has anyone had any previous experience of this? Any advise would be welcome! Thanks.

I think it had been showing 153k for about 6 years so quite a bit over 200k which made its power pretty impressive! But then again, if a little legend of a car is going to die, it might as well do it in style!

There are quite a few for hire around the country, we did a search and have hired a 23 window samba for ours, perfect colour, perfect transport! Fortunately it was only a couple of miles down the road from us!

Graham told me what had happened and looking at those photo's I can't believe how lucky you were! So lucky that you were able to jump out of the car before the second car hit you! That being said i'm a little sad, I have fond memories of that car, it was my partner's first car after passing her test and for the two years before we sold it back to Graham it never let us down! The pro-fox hunting crowd would probably be disappointed that you swerved!

I'm not going to be able to make this i'm afraid, taxi and baby-care duties take priority. Maybe next time...

I might try and come along to this, will have to see closer the time though... Convoy from Kiddy/Stourbridge area if anyone is around that way?

Received mine thanks, will get round to fitting it in the next year to two!...

It'll be worth the wait mate, I know mine was!