Thread: Expensive Defender roll over

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

Originally Posted by rgty_kmj

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

Originally Posted by Tombie

Why do you say that?

I think we are on the same wavelength Tombie.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I think we are on the same wavelength Tombie.

Did you read my reply?? Thought not.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Tombie

What is happening is that much of the body structures are now being made of alloys that once fatigued can not easily be repaired and are strength compromised.

These are the next generation of throw away items.

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?

Originally Posted by johntins

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.

I agree - with both parts of your comment. The only bit that is not simple is the definition of a statutory writeoff.

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