As some of you may know last Friday I was involved in a rather bad crash in my Fabia vRS. The car was a tad of a mess with front and rear end damaged due to bouncing off both barriers.

Anyway, I've finally heard from the insurance today and, after laughing at the bloke on the phone after he first offered me 3.2k for my car, they have come back with a slightly better but still discussing things.

Anyway, the car will be CAT C'd if I intend on buying the car back (not to be put back onto the road I asure you of that) but just to strip parts off it and try and make some money back.

Now my question is this, they have said the car will be able to be bought back for 20% of the payout I get, so for 6k I'm looking at £1200 to buy it back. My question is, do you think it's worth buying the car back, and do you honestly think I will be able to make a reasonable return on the parts on the car should I strip it down?

EDIT: Just to add, the repair bill would be £11, 500

Edited 9 November, 201213 yr by Southy

Oddopends how much on the engine, suspension, brakes and panels and salvagable!

Hummm, well no body parts/lights were left really were they? Think about the expensive bits, Seats? (leather wasnt they?) Steering wheel & air bag? Coilovers? Wheels (obviously not the broken one, maybe have it in the garage as a trophy? lol)

The engine bar a cracked sump and broken oil pump chain was in good nick having covered only 52k (nearly 20k in my ownership), but I do have access to strip the engine down and change any part's should it make it more sale-able.

Brakes were new items late on last year, all standard Mk1 Fabia items with mintex pads/Disc's, all in good working order at the time.

Suspension, I'm sure I still have the standard items sat around in the workshop so they are okay, only done around 36k aswell, coilovers IF i were to get another Vrs I would keep them for that.

Panel wise the passenger side is in good nick, and drivers door and possibly rear door are okay.

Really depends if you get 6k out of them I suppose. If you get less and the buy back ends up lower then it's probably worth it, especially if you get another fabia. Don't know if I'd want the hassle of pulling it apart and selling it for the likely return.

Mind I'll take the rear spring seats and adjusters if the coils are damaged and you split

Edited 9 November, 201213 yr by Dougie S

Hummm, well no body parts/lights were left really were they? Think about the expensive bits, Seats? (leather wasnt they?) Steering wheel & air bag? Coilovers? Wheels (obviously not the broken one, maybe have it in the garage as a trophy? lol)

No lights left in tact apart from passenger rear off the top of my head, the seats I may sell, but may also keep for the new vrs should it not have leather but may sell should I need the money (leather was top thing on extras I wanted),

None of the airbag's went off, which I dunno was a good or a bad thing but makes the steering wheel and dash an Item that can be sold on.

Coilovers as said above I would most likely keep unless I buy with some already on the car, but they are the INOX V1's so were retailing around £700 at the time I bought them.

I think the broken wheel will be kept as a trophy haha, but the other 3 bar being a bit tatty seem in good condition.

20%? Seems a bit harsh. I only paid 10% to get back mongrel mark 1 back off my insurers (They offered me £5.5k, I received £4950 + the car)

20%? Seems a bit harsh. I only paid 10% to get back mongrel mark 1 back off my insurers (They offered me £5.5k, I received £4950 + the car)

That's what they have offered so far, along with 6k upto now but haven't taken any mod's into consideration so far so just collecting the invoices together to send them over and they will take them into consideration also. I may see if they will drop the buy back price.

Really depends if you get 6k out of them I suppose. If you get less and the buy back ends up lower then it's probably worth it, especially if you get another fabia. Don't know if I'd want the hassle of pulling it apart and selling it for the likely return.

Mind I'll take the rear spring seats and adjusters if the coils are damaged and you split

Well I've been offered the 6k so far but this hasn't taken into the mod's so gathering my invoices so far to see if they can claim some of those on it too to cover replacement's on the new car.

I don't mind the work stripping the car, currently in the process of stripping 2 Supra's after my mate had a mishap on track at Combe the other month.

If the front shocks are none servicable will keep you in mind buddy

Could you negotiate removing the mods you wanted to keep/sell and them not paying out for them?

I dunno didn't really ask that, but know recovery guy said I could of come down monday morning to take them off if I had time/wanted too, but prob's be able to make money stripping and selling all the bit's on the car tbf. Fairly new set of mat's in the car.

Well, put it this way, I don't see your car making close to £1,200 at any kind of salvage auction etc. £600-£700 tops with the amount of work needed to restore. I thought 10|% was the usual buyback price?

Ah, I just remembered mine was a Cat B spares only write off. Might have been why it was 10%....

Im not sure really tbh, when I questioned the recovery guy over last sat over buying it back he said it depends on the insurance company and can be between 10-30% of the payout.

I dunno didn't really ask that, but know recovery guy said I could of come down monday morning to take them off if I had time/wanted too, but prob's be able to make money stripping and selling all the bit's on the car tbf. Fairly new set of mat's in the car.

Get down there and strip it clean slip the recovery guy a bottle and I'm sure he'll say it all got robbed while it was sitting on the back of the wagon...

Someone stole my first car (citroen ax 1.6 diesel) while it was waiting for the insurance appointed scrappies to pick it up... after it had been written off in a (non fault) crash so was undrivable and some youths had panned in the windows and tried to torch it... How or why it was stolen I don't fully understand but at least I got my payout.

Sell me the seats lol

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I would be interested in rear left door card if you do buy back and sell as parts.

If it was me I would speak nice to the recovery guy and ask if you could remove a few of the mods. I think you could make the money back if your prepared to spend the time taking it apart and the effort selling it all / packaging it all up etc I made about £1500 from stripping a few un-needed parts off and old fiesta and then sold the car for £1250!

Surely if you consider the turbo is worth a few hundred alone?

You just have to have the space, and the patience, and the time!