That's the spirit!

Bad news.
Last some of you will have heard, the insurance wanted £600 for my squashed Dyane. After a comic bout of lost post I find out today that the £600 is an 'industry standard' and it can't be changed. I also found out they thought I already had the car, but I don't, it's in some yard in Middlesborough.
I did my best to pull on his heart strings, but he wouldn't budge. He did sound less sure of himself after he realised that they had it still.
To be fair, I can hardly justify £600 no matter how fond I am, given the price of less damaged projects out there.
To my own horror, that's what I told them. Now I'm starting to wonder if it is worth £600 to me.
Help!
Do we think it may be possible to buy it from the yard after they presumably have to buy it from my insurers?
Do we think the insurers might have second thoughts after it sinks in they still have it?

<cough>ollocks it is.

It might be their standard price. They might even not want to change it. But that's not the same thing at all...



Mmm. Competent, aren't they?



Quite. He remembered that not only were they still paying storage for it, but they didn't even have you over the barrel they thought they did.



Possibly. They basically have two choices - crush it and get it out the way asap or send it to a salvage auction. They will make that decision on economic grounds alone, without any sentiment involved. If you can find them and offer them more than the mixed-metal scrap value, with zero hassle for them, I suspect you'll find yourself reunited. But make sure you can move on it, because they will not be happy at having to store it for longer than they need to - and the storage charges won't be cheap.



Only one way to find out...

My guess is that the Yard will probably want a ridiculous amount for "storage".

Roo ...I realise this advice is a little late for you matey .....but if it saves anyone else being ripped off ....

After seeing a friend total his Fiat 127 [big style,he hit the back of a stationary truck with it] .......He was too stunned and shocked to argue with the police who "insisted" that the car was towed away to a "yard".
He was then later quoted a ridiculous amount to buy back his own alloy wheels & seats [for the replacement 127 he was fortunate enough to find]

I've always sworn that the only way "they" [insurers or scrapyard] will get any car of mine after an accident is to drag my dead body out of it.
Have the car recovered to either a garage/repairers you both know & trust or,better still ..... back to your own drive or garage! ......[if youre in a Breakdown/Recovery scheme like the AA or RAC they should do this for you]

best regards
Terry

Unfortunately I was a day away from getting the car to the garage when it was anounced that I could no longer use it to do my own car in. That was the day before I got Seth. But then, I would have had to go for the 600 for sure.
I'll leave them to mull it over and see if they change their minds now they know they have it. At least I know where it is!
I might just contact the yard in the morning and see if I can get 1st dibs.
Now losing it seems like a real possibility, I'm starting to think;
Decent tailgate, year old Michelins, fiberglass wings (front ones are repairable), nice chairs and covers, 2 good doors. How much is that worth?
Am I going mad? Am I thinking I'll cave in?

If it's all four Michs - and they're undamaged - then that's ~£400 (less whatever for wear) right there. Less hassle value, of course. And cost of recovery/disposal.

You're right, £600 is too much on that basis.

If you read that over and over, it encapsulates my dilema!

Into the equation, I now have new free storage near Huddersfield and the possibility of getting it collected for little more than a load of earache about how much I paid for it.

And, presumably, the thick end of 200 miles of fuel in whatever you're using that's large enough to shift it...?

~£50, just for that.