MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: GTIjames on May 26, 2010, 11:13:20 am
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well as some of you may or may not know i almost killed my car about a month ago :sad1:
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anyhow the insurance has approved all the repairs, £14k of them :surprised: and the repairs started ealrier this week
now the car requires some jigging work on the front struts to realign it all, I have never had any experience of this but a few people have mentioned to me that it will never be the same again and advised me to get rid of it
anyone have any experience with jigging a car? and if i flog it will the repairs effect the resale value or do I not have to disclose the repairs?
thanks
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were jigging my mates mk3 tonight, as long as its done well and aligned probably youd never know unless looking at the creases on the arms. alsong as everything is aligned youd never know the difference, has the roof creased?
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cheers joe
roof is fine :happy2: just the front struts/arms the tech mentioned to me which needed jigging
suppose I will have to wait until I get it back in a few weeks time to see what i think to it all, but my initial feelings are to get rid :sad1:
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with such an expensive car as yours i think i would get rid, but if you have gone through the insurence then the car will be regestered as a cat D/C??
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the thing with getting your car back will be all in your head saying its not the same as before and you will get rid :sad1: its just what happens
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crikey :surprised: how did you land in the shrubbery then?
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with such an expensive car as yours i think i would get rid, but if you have gone through the insurence then the car will be regestered as a cat D/C??
no it wont joe as they have not wrote the car off its being fixed
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no it wont joe as they have not wrote the car off its being fixed
tsk tsk tsk
"written" :P :grin:
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:P :P i knew i should have put written off :P
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crikey :surprised: how did you land in the shrubbery then?
wet road and and brand spanking new track-tyres.. lost it going round a bend :ashamed:
with such an expensive car as yours i think i would get rid, but if you have gone through the insurence then the car will be regestered as a cat D/C??
no it wont joe as they have not wrote the car off its being fixed
cheers mat, i thought that was the case in the uk, with there been no record kept of repairs work
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i thought if any car needs jigging then its a write off??
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i thought if any car needs jigging then its a write off??
no mate its just if the cost of repair is more than the car is worth then it gets written off
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i dont think thats the case, they either write it off or they repair it :confused:
they valued it at 17k and the repairs came in at 14k including labour etc, so must have come close to been a write off
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i worked around the bodyshop area for years mate and like i said above thats the case
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eek! bad luck m8
surprised to be honest as 14 out of 17 is 82% of the value, around 60% can trigger a writeup so youve been unlucky there.
car shouldnt have it recorded , and if done correctly should be fine once repaired.
good luck :happy2:
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My car was jigged after my bad accident a couple of years ago. They did a superb job and she's arrow-straight and true. As to those saying "you'll get rid of it", I didn't and I'm so glad I didn't. Just ticked over 100,000 miles yesterday and I'm never gonna let her go.
If it's done properly then it's literally as good as new.
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I wouldnt like the idea of crashing my car and keeping it after...just be odd for me. If its was a little bump then yeah thats fine but 14k worth of repairs?
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the thing with getting your car back will be all in your head saying its not the same as before and you will get rid :sad1: its just what happens
agree 100% it will never feel the same to you even if its fine but it will be forever in your head. Id fight for a write off, if not sell it it on.
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I wouldnt like the idea of crashing my car and keeping it after...just be odd for me. If its was a little bump then yeah thats fine but 14k worth of repairs?
It's only metal. At which point does it become too much metal? It's purely psychological.
agree 100% it will never feel the same to you even if its fine but it will be forever in your head. Id fight for a write off, if not sell it it on.
My GTI felt the same to me, and feels even better now. And my accident was pretty damaging, not £14k bad but not far off at all.
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for some people once they crash no matter what the car comes back like its just in your head its just not the same
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for some people once they crash no matter what the car comes back like its just in your head its just not the same
unless you let nationwide near it :fighting:
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Unfortunately its
Id fight for a write off, if not sell it it on.
Not your choice unfortunately and too much of a difference for them to let you do it.
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for some people once they crash no matter what the car comes back like its just in your head its just not the same
unless you let nationwide near it :fighting:
nationwide crash repair :scared: dealt with those guys all over the country :rolleye: they do some good work but lots of it is not the best :scared:
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thanks for all the advice :happy2:
i am swaying towards getting shot of it, but on the plus side its going to be coming back with brand new bilstein pss10 coilovers, stoptech brakes, and the whole front suspension set up with steering rack, power steering, hubs etc plus the body work will look mint
decisions..
will have some nice bits for sale if it does go! :drinking:
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When I crashed my Mini a few years back, it ended up just like yours, and the repair bill came to £9k. I went back to the bodyshop a couple of times because I wasn't happy with the pain finish on the bonnet and the alignment of the panels but overall I didnt have any problems, and kept it for another 2 years!
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I'd have done the roof whilst waiting for help......
Head/Heart/As good as before/Worse than before....You'll forever have your doubts and when somebody comes to buy it and asks "Any Bumps" you'll feel obliged to tell them cos if you dont and the new owners can prove repairs and they asked you and you lied then your on thin ice.
Time for a change me thinks
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Suprised it's not been written off with such a high cost to fix. Insurance company would get £3k for it scrap value anyway so wouldn't be out of pocket I doubt.
I'd fight it on the principles, failing that, see what it drives like but i'd probably flog it myself.
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John-o is spot and and I to am surprised they didn't write it off as any where near 2/3rds the value and it's normally written off! And I wouldn't listen to all the doubters, the car will be fine once it's been fully repaired! :happy2:
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Should have pushed to write it off....
You would have been much better off as a car that needs jigging is worth alot less than a clean original car!
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