02-01-2012, 07:05 PM
Need some advice...
I've found a car I'm very interested in, but about 3 years ago it was involved in a low-speed accident and written off as a Cat C. On the damage repair side of things I'm not worried, basically the guy was on a roundabout and the driver on the right of him drifted out of his lane and made contact with the offside of the car, cracking the side section of the front bumper, denting the front wing and rear wheelarch and scraping right along the side, literally just panel damage. The guy did the repair himself and he emailed me loads of pictures of the wing and bumper being replaced, the wheelarch being beaten out slightly and then filled and the whole car being prepped for a full respray, which looks brilliant. The chassis leg is straight and the guy has a certificate showing that the car has been jigged and is straight, so I'm not all all worried about the quality of the repair, the guy is an Audi fanatic who has 5 of them
Thing is, I remember my old man buying a write-off years back and not being able to insure it, but is that still the case? It's been MOT'ed a few times since and had its VIC check, but is it gonna be a f**ker to insure? Anyone ever bought a write-off?
By the way, it's a '91 Audi 90 2.3 20v Sport in tornado red, with 83k and a huge service history. He only wants a grand for it, and judging by what I've seen it is very cheap for a clean 20v 90, probably due to it being a write-off...
I've found a car I'm very interested in, but about 3 years ago it was involved in a low-speed accident and written off as a Cat C. On the damage repair side of things I'm not worried, basically the guy was on a roundabout and the driver on the right of him drifted out of his lane and made contact with the offside of the car, cracking the side section of the front bumper, denting the front wing and rear wheelarch and scraping right along the side, literally just panel damage. The guy did the repair himself and he emailed me loads of pictures of the wing and bumper being replaced, the wheelarch being beaten out slightly and then filled and the whole car being prepped for a full respray, which looks brilliant. The chassis leg is straight and the guy has a certificate showing that the car has been jigged and is straight, so I'm not all all worried about the quality of the repair, the guy is an Audi fanatic who has 5 of them
Thing is, I remember my old man buying a write-off years back and not being able to insure it, but is that still the case? It's been MOT'ed a few times since and had its VIC check, but is it gonna be a f**ker to insure? Anyone ever bought a write-off?
By the way, it's a '91 Audi 90 2.3 20v Sport in tornado red, with 83k and a huge service history. He only wants a grand for it, and judging by what I've seen it is very cheap for a clean 20v 90, probably due to it being a write-off...
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