Thread: Problems following accident

John, Wagga has a large truck repair industry, I had a car written off by my insurance company, they offered me $1800 for a car I paid $17,000 for, so I told them to stick it and sued the other driver, got a quote to repair my car for $10,000.
Won the court case other driver had to pay all costs, court awarded $9,500, scrapped the car and went and bought a better car, Good Luck, Regards Frank.

Originally Posted by Tank

John, Wagga has a large truck repair industry, I had a car written off by my insurance company, they offered me $1800 for a car I paid $17,000 for, so I told them to stick it and sued the other driver, got a quote to repair my car for $10,000.
Won the court case other driver had to pay all costs, court awarded $9,500, scrapped the car and went and bought a better car, Good Luck, Regards Frank.

Thanks for the information, Frank. We have not got to that stage yet, and I hope we will not. But I am reasonably confident that it won't come to that.

John

Looks like we may be getting somewhere.

The Insurer has phoned round and found a local (Dubbo) repairer who has just reopened their doors after their premises burnt down, so they have no backlog of work (and no, it was not an insurance job on their part - the fire spread from next door).

I am booked in next Tuesday.

John

Hi John

I'll take some images of the rear cross member of the 110 at the CSA tomorrow and post them up. If you need it I'll then get the gas axe out and cut the rails.

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Hi John

I'll take some images of the rear cross member of the 110 at the CSA tomorrow and post them up. If you need it I'll then get the gas axe out and cut the rails.

Diana

Thanks Diana, but when I was talking to the repairer this morning, and I said I'd be happy with a second hand one provided it was rust free, and that I could probably locate one, they said that they only use new parts. We'll have to see if they stick to the tune when they actually try to get a new one.

While we are at it, the cross member appears to have changed part number in 1990 - does anyone know what the actual differences are?

John

Just got off the phone to the insurer. One useful bit of information that they provided is that since the vehicle is over sixteen years old, they do not have to put it on the written off vehicles register, even if they write it off.

I am still arguing with them over a deposit on the hire car they are going to provide.

John

Got some good news this morning. They are going to repair my car! But they have been quoted six weeks delivery on a replacement crossmember, so I am getting the car back tomorrow and they will let me know when they get the parts.

John

Fantastic news John, very happy for you.