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In other words, modern cars are expensive to repair properly - and consumer law, and nit picking on 'road safety', means they have to be repaired properly.
This makes a lot of what would have been called repairable write-offs, but the car rebirthing business found that these made a good basis for rebirthing cars, so the change was implemented to stop this.
Looks like the Statutory Right Offs live to see another day over this side of the Tasman
Land Rover Defender 0 Deposit Finance $278pw 2014 | Trade Me
Kerry
see post #17 of this thread :)Quote:
Originally Posted by rgty_kmj
I think we are on the same wavelength Tombie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
Did you read my reply?? Thought not.Quote:
Originally Posted by ramblingboy42
Rebirthing stopped dead with VINs. A car listed as SWO cannot be registered. Simple, effective. It's NSW's draconian approach to what constitutes a SWO that is the issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by JDNSW
Hard to see the Defender at the heart of this discussion falling into that category. Isn't that why they had to stop making them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
I agree - with both parts of your comment. The only bit that is not simple is the definition of a statutory writeoff.Quote:
Originally Posted by johntins
NSW looked at repairable writeoffs rebuilt using the major parts of stolen vehicles and took the simple step of deciding that making all writeoffs the same would solve the problem, as well as that of dodgy repairs.
I downloaded the certificate for the car and got the following;
Additional Motor Vehicle Details – NEVDIS
Identifier number: SALLDHMS7AA795612 Identifier type: VIN
Vehicle type: LIGHT COMMERCIAL
(<3500KG)
Make: LAN
Body type: PANEL VAN WITH WINDO Model: DEFENDER
Colour: GREEN Engine number: 100420023957244DT
Registration plate
number:
No data recorded. State vehicle registered: NSW
Registration expiry: No data recorded.
Year of manufacture: No data recorded. Year/Month of compliance: 2010-06
NEVDIS Written-off Vehicle Notification:
NSW, 18 May 2017, Statutory Write-off
• I01C [Impact | Passenger front | Heavy structural]
• I02C [Impact | Driver front | Heavy structural]
• I03C [Impact | Driver side | Heavy structural]
• I04C [Impact | Driver rear | Heavy structural]
• I05C [Impact | Passenger rear | Heavy structural]
• I06C [Impact | Passenger side | Heavy structural]
• I22C [Impact | A pillar passenger | Heavy structural]
• I23C [Impact | A pillar driver | Heavy structural]
• I24C [Impact | B pillar passenger | Heavy structural]
• I25C [Impact | B pillar driver | Heavy structural]
NEVDIS Stolen Vehicle Notification:
• Not recorded as stolen.
Not a great history.
I had considered getting a mechanically old defender and upgrading it with all the good stuff including the firewall dash and mechanicals.
The only issue is the engine change but an engineers certificate normally sorts that out.
The real issue is that if you did the upgrade on a 94 Defender, it's still a 94 defender, all be it a nice one, but not the same value as a 2010, that it was.
Richard
I had an accident in my 2013 130 puma and bent the chassis in 3 places, it was border line as to a write off. In the end the assessor found out that Landrover would make another chassis with my chassis/VIN. It took 4 months for the chassis to arrive, but the car was still drivable, so wasn't too much of an issue. Im glad now that it wasn't written off, repairs came in at $41k