My quote from Renault after the hail stome in Leicester

[marcuss3006]

Well after the freak weather we had last week my car took a bit of a battering :thumbdown:

I took it into Renault Leicester for a quote and the repair cost was £5224 hmy:

Its covered by the insurance so not all bad, i havnt a clue if the will repair of write it off??

Whats your thoughts??

Its a 197 F1 in black 57 plate done 46k Full history and was MINT before mg:

 

[smiler]

pretty sure they'll repair that mate

 

[Mike]

I can feel your pain, you are not alone in this Clicky Click Click!! - feel gutted for you both

 

[Foxspeed]

at that price be a write off....

 

[smiler]

i dunno i had a 58 plate RB i brought brand new in 09

2 years on with 35,000 miles on the clock

a woman smashed into the front end,resulting in £4000 worth of damage,
had it repaired but wasnt happy afterwards so i sold it

 

[Willis]

i dunno i had a 58 plate RB i brought brand new in 09

2 years on with 35,000 miles on the clock

a woman smashed into the front end,resulting in £4000 worth of damage,
had it repaired but wasnt happy afterwards so i sold it

Yeah but the book value of your car at that time would have been a fair bit more than Marcus' current value. If it's not ''economically viable'' to the insurer they will write it off. If, for example Marcus' car is worth £5,500 trade-in then at £5,224 they'd just call it a day and give him a cheque instead. It's really down to how they value the car on the day I'm afraid.

I imagine yours would've been worth around £12,00 at that time?

 

[smiler]

ah ok i see what your saying mate didnt think of it like that lol

well hopefully they dont write it off

 

[Hippy]

Id like to bet most of that 5k is labour aswell have the insurance only asked for 1 quote ?

 

[Roy]

Would be nice to see it repaired but what sort of job they going to do???

 

[deadmau5]

I think if the damage is more than 60% of the value then they'll write it off.

 

[Tom]

Yeah, surely that's a write off.

 

[deadmau5]

Sell your Recaros!

 

[Dazza1]

If u love the car if they write it off buy it back off the insurance get your pay out and get it repaired yourself

 

[Tom]

I wouldn't claim... The price you'll pay in insurance with 0NCB will cost way more than 5k. Since the fire, I pay 5k per year in insurance!!!

I'd see if you can get it done privately mate...

 

[marcuss3006]

I wouldn't claim... The price you'll pay in insurance with 0NCB will cost way more than 5k. Since the fire, I pay 5k per year in insurance!!!

I'd see if you can get it done privately mate...

It wont as i have protected no claims :tongue_smilie:

 

[Foxspeed]

It wont as i have protected no claims :tongue_smilie:

it doesnt stop them upping the cost of the insurance.....

 

[marcuss3006]

it doesnt stop them upping the cost of the insurance.....

i ment about the 0 NCB, yeah i know it will go up but it wont go up by a massive amount

 

[Foxspeed]

i ment about the 0 NCB, yeah i know it will go up but it wont go up by a massive amount

thats subjective to what the insurance will cost you..

protected ncb is a bit of a con - just another way to get some more money out of you

you can have 65% ncb but they can put it up enough to make it like 0% ncb

 

[marcuss3006]

well the guy on the phone said it wont go up to much and i could have 1 other claim in 5 years before it touches my NCB