Thread: Help required - written off vehicles, Victoria, uneconomical to repair

Talk to your insurance company .... see if you can get them to leave it off the WOVR. Shannons probably will if you request it for sure.

seeya
Shane L.

I have a mate who specializes in exactly this, unfortunately he is doing some time for exactly this .
Na im joking, he got out a few months ago.

We are talking the same thing yea?

Generally involves an engineering report, and a physical inspection by Vicroads (to prevent re-birthing with a stolen one - probably what DAMINKs mate was doing).
I've done it in Qld, no problems, but you have to be prepared to deal with beaurocratic seat-polishers.
Many otherwise serviceable vehicles are written off, simply because of a bean-counters' idea of "value".

Not an Engineering report but a VASS is required, then a RWC on top of that - VASS was $650 last time I did this. They check to ensure the repairs have been done properly and that it isn't a rebirth. PITA - we had a perfectly good vehicle written off because the bumper was stuffed - I repaired it myself, got the VASS and RWC and re registered it.

Be aware that they may try and take the vehicle straight off you - don't let them or it will be gone forever. It's your car until you sign it over - don't sign anything. There are a lot of dodgy assessors try and get their hands on perfectly good vehicles like this.

Originally Posted by Homestar

There are a lot of dodgy assessors try and get their hands on perfectly good vehicles like this.

Hell yea good business, then they do a bodgy on it, spray it and sell it on HP to some poor sap for 5x the price.

Darn - sorry to hear Mick.

It only looks like minor damage to a clean vehicle that you took a while to find.
Have a talk to SSmith as he went through this with his current ride.

Originally Posted by Homestar

Not an Engineering report but a VASS is required, then a RWC on top of that - VASS was $650 last time I did this.

When I did it, Main Roads (as they were back then) had a list of "approved" engineers - you went to one of them to get the report. Was around $300 - 350 by memory. That was a while ago, though!