Hi I recently wrote off my car and the insurance said it is a cat C.

It is a 1.4 mpi silverline and they valued it at £1900.

I can buy it back off the insurance company for £190 and am wondering if people think it's worth it for me to get it recovered to where I live and strip it and sell the parts or just leave it.

 

cheers

Leave it

Hardly £190 worth of parts on it

Edited 16 December, 201312 yr by BigJase88

Forget it, nothing really worth keeping from it.

Only thing as it's got my coilovers on it which are not damaged and few other bits ive done

Depends if you can be bothered

I traded in my leon with its coilovers on

The garage wanted a standard car so i just wound them up and matt blacked them as i couldnt be bothered to remove them

if youve got plenty time and space to have a car / bits of car every where then you could possibley make a few quid if you have the car a few week 

For £190 I'd buy it.

- Advertise for parts for a few weeks

- remove coilovers and sell

-scrap value is Aprox £110 when you want rid so can you get £80 from it before you sell up? I would have thought so!

Ide give you a tenner for the front seats.

Cheers decided to buy it as my local scrap yard will give £170 scrap as it's got alloys too and will collect it when I'm done! :

Rear ended?

Cheers decided to buy it as my local scrap yard will give £170 scrap as it's got alloys too and will collect it when I'm done! :

 

Sell the wheels!  Worth more selling on than the £5 a wheel or so the scrappers offer.

 

Did the airbags go off?  If there's a whole airbag kit in there, it might be worth something.  It really depends on how much time and effort you want to put in to it yourself really.  What are the damaged parts?

Iirc the silverline has a leather steering wheel, handbrake and gearknob, worth a little bit cash. Better than the plasticky classic ones

Depends i always bought back my old Clio 1.8 16v's because people paid silly money for the parts to stick on bog standard clio's i made way more than the car was actually worth about £3k on one of them although this was over 10 years ago. I also had a friendly Scrap yard contact at the time who would pick up the stripped carcass for free. Have you thought how you will get the car to the scrap yard without its suspension?

 

EDIT just read you have been offered scrap value - You are right to get it then when i did mine scrapyards were actually charging you to collect and not giving you anything for scrap. China buying all the scrap is at least good for something then ;-)

Deffo worth the £190. I bought a write off to use as a donor car for mine as I needed power steering pump, passenger seat, didnt need but wanted the parcel shelf speakers out of it. Then sold off the wheels, rear bumper, back lights, strut brace, bonnet catch.... then scrapped it. Bought for £220 sold bits and scrap for about 450 in total and did up mine abit. If you've got the time then do it. Most cars are worth more money in bits that as a whole car.

All the damage is at the front and no air bags went off.

I have the original suspension which I can put on if needed for it to get on the recovery truck. Hopefully get it recovered in the next week or so then start selling all the bits I can and get everything I want off it.

I know I can get more for the alloys but will need to find a set of steelies for it to roll on so will look around for some.

Cheers for the help

 

Here's the car after the crash..

 

 

 

 

Edited 17 December, 201312 yr by Alex529

if you want to remove the suspension ... i have an entire standard set up that you can have ... in trade for your wind deflectors :P

Something tells me the OSF coilover will NOT be straight

Something tells me the OSF coilover will NOT be straight

 

It is set miles back, inside the inner chassis leg, so should be fine despite how dented in the wing is.

Are the headlights still intact, Alex?  That's £40-£50 right there if they are.  Can't really tell if bonnet damage has affected them.

Haha Ive already got the standard suspension and the wind deflectors will be going on the next fabia! thanks anyway :P

Both front coilovers have no damage at all as already checked and the lights are still intact yes

Why did you change the front grill back to silver and change lights? I think it looked better before. Or maybe im just saying that because ive matt blacked everything on mine lol. Not that it matters now because its a write off. How did it happen?

Set of 4 steelies with tyres on sitting on my drive waiting to be got rid of if you are up Desborough , Northants way.

I took it all off because of the insurance, it wasn't declared and wanted to make it look less modified

Had a bit of a nightmare though brought the car back and the guy came on the recovery truck to my house and we couldn't get it off as the rear wheels were locked for some reason.. we tried for about an hour but had no luck so I took the stuff I wanted off it except the coilovers as didn't have time because he had other jobs to go to and had a car stuck on his truck... haha.

So had to get it scrapped and get a fork lift to get it off:(

 

Thanks for the offer for the steelies though!

drums seized sounds like.  Usually a good whack with a hammer loosens it up.

Did you manage to list anything for sale from this?