ZT-T 260 2004 89500 miles - Auction

[Dan1971]

Sent you a message via the bay of E to see if you were selling elsewhere (DLAO1971) - surprised you're not selling via here really being a long standing member. Will keep an eye and hopefully bag a bargain via ebay then.

[VXman]

I need to sell it quick due to the insurance situation and to be honest I didn't think advertising on here would create enough interest.

[JakeWilson]

So is the car Cat D?

[AndyG]

It is also on here http://www.forums.75-zt.com/viewtopi...5d4fafec6f968b

[VXman]

Yes it will be Cat D. It's a biggish dent to the drivers door and a little of the adjoining wing. The Cat D is due to the insurance only valuing it at £2200 and reckoning that repair would be at least 50% of that. Cat D doesn't mean anything really as the car doesn't even get put off the road. I keep it as they just subtract the buy back (Scrap value) of the car from the payout. (and my excess of course! )

[6KH]

If I would have accepted my insurance company's judgement on my Rover 45 it too would have been a write-off. That was four years and 60,000 miles ago. All due to an idiot reversing into the driver's door. I claimed from the idiot's insurance company (instead of mine), had a second-hand door fitted and resprayed for about £200, and the car was back on the road. The garage nominated by the insurance company to do the work is an ex-Rover dealer who had a 45 they were keeping for spares. I spoke to them and urged them to make the job as low-cost as possible. They even asked me whether I minded if I had a second-hand door! Of course I didn't! The car at that time was 11 years old and the rest of it was very much second hand already.

I've also had a Category D write off with a Metro in the 1990s. A dent in the rear quarter and a replacement rear light lens was all that happened. The dent was pushed out with a piece of wood and a scrappy provided the lens for £5 at that time. You could tell there had been a dent, but for that car at that time, it didn't matter to me.

The moral of the story is that insurance companies are used to dealing with people who cannot repair their own cars and for whom the value of a car is simply a matter of economics. For us, it's different!

Andrew

[ZS Phil]

Hi there,

I'm very interested in this. I've just had a bid on ebay and currently the highest bidder.
A couple of questions:
-Any idea what the fault with the ABS is? Could you describe what the problem is?
-Is there any scope for putting some legal tyres and an MOT on it?
-If you were to do this, what would the asking price be? Equally, how much do you want for it as it stands?

[Stan315]

well that's three of us watching it, could end up a dear car.

[trikey]

I know a lad on the 75-ZT site that is also interested, good luck with the sale.

[Stan315]

If I would have accepted my insurance company's judgement on my Rover 45 it too would have been a write-off. That was four years and 60,000 miles ago. All due to an idiot reversing into the driver's door. I claimed from the idiot's insurance company (instead of mine), had a second-hand door fitted and resprayed for about £200, and the car was back on the road. The garage nominated by the insurance company to do the work is an ex-Rover dealer who had a 45 they were keeping for spares. I spoke to them and urged them to make the job as low-cost as possible. They even asked me whether I minded if I had a second-hand door! Of course I didn't! The car at that time was 11 years old and the rest of it was very much second hand already.

I've also had a Category D write off with a Metro in the 1990s. A dent in the rear quarter and a replacement rear light lens was all that happened. The dent was pushed out with a piece of wood and a scrappy provided the lens for £5 at that time. You could tell there had been a dent, but for that car at that time, it didn't matter to me.

The moral of the story is that insurance companies are used to dealing with people who cannot repair their own cars and for whom the value of a car is simply a matter of economics. For us, it's different!

Andrew

I had had the same issue with a Range Rover a couple of years back,written off for a rear wing. £25 of eBay and in the right colour and they paid out £1000. It's less work for the ins company's to write a vehicle off and cheaper than using their list of " approved repairers " with their over inflated prices.