Morbid I know, but are you going to post the video? Wish I'd had mine attached when I hit a tree and chucked mine down a ditch for good measure!

Edited 25 November, 201411 yr by Nippy1975

_{Crumple zone did the trick. Glad you are all ok. Hopefully easy enough to repair.}

will it be a write off? I had an 8 yer old Octavia Ambiente Estate that i bumped the back of a fiesta in, it had done 180k miles.... new lights, bumper, bonnet, slam panel, air con radiator, etc... no airbag deployment but it was fixed 4 days later.... Thanks Co-op insurance!

See post #20!

Update:

 

It didn't take long to go from repairable to not.

 

Garage made a start and found a lot more damage once they had dismantled the front. It's still repairable just not economic to repair. The garage helpfully provided a report, that I used to get some estimates from a couple of repairers near here that I trust, but still too expensive to be worth it. 

 

Test drove a few cars:

• Mk3 Octavia VRS (petrol) - a nice drive and a bit more refined that my Mk2, but soo much more expensive (too expensive in my opinion) and a few very annoying layout issues with it being right hand drive.
• Audi S3 Sportsback (8V) - not hugely more expensive than the vrs I looked at (it was 6 months older than the vrs), it can put down all of it's power all the time, seats are leaps and bounds more comfortable than the vrs. 

So I'm leaning towards a S3 when the insurance is sorted out, I will go and look at a Golf R as well. I would have to drive it in an un-Audi way. No one would ever let me out in traffic again though. 

Sorry to hear about that.

 

Have you been able to swop some of your old parts back. I guess there would be quite a few people interested in them.

 

S3 is nice, good luck with whatever you buy

I will be buying it back when I've negotiated a value for the Octavia, then there will be quite a few parts going up in the for sale section.  

if you still have your old cluster that will still work.

if you still have your old cluster that will still work.

Yes I still have the old standard cluster and the old steering wheel.

That is good just fit the old stuff back

I have had a bump at 10-15mph and the damage was staggering as i hit all the soft stuff. bonnet, bumper, rad, intercooler, Aircon rad, air con pump, grille, upper cross member (but not the main structural brace behind bumper)

its amazing how much damage can be done at such low speed and how much the fronts crumple.

mine is only worth 3.5k but cost that much to repair but they still did it.

 

I hit a 1/3 of a truck tire at 70mph after my bump above and it did as much damage as a volvo V90 towbar at 10mph ! the pics are great lol

 

Still had it repaired by insurance company though after only 6 months of it being repaired from the Volvo.

 

Just goes to show that these cars are built solidly and can be easily repaired economically and last a lot longer as long as you dont hit the proper hard structural stuff.

That is good just fit the old stuff back

 

what Ed said. This is what my sister was told when her car was written off. 

I will be buying it back when I've negotiated a value for the Octavia, then there will be quite a few parts going up in the for sale section.  

 

Good luck, hope you can get a fair payout for it. Does your valuation differ much from the price guide websites? Did you go through your own insurer?

Good luck, hope you can get a fair payout for it. Does your valuation differ much from the price guide websites? Did you go through your own insurer?

After a bit of back and forth I got £10.5k for it. It went through my insurer as the other parties insurer kept changing their mind about admitting liability. They have now formally admitted it.

After a few test drives and looking at a lot of cars I got a very good deal on a well equipped S3. I shall still be lurking around on here as the Audi forums don't seem as friendly.

Try SCN.......... now that's unfriendly.

 

I say that's more of an understatement!

 

Are you able to post the video?

Have the whole thing on camera,

 

Video???

 

Sorry Mike - but in my defence, I knew who I was asking though! :p

I'm also on the VWAudi forum, and although I don't post there often at all,I don't find it in any way unfriendly. Try SCN.......... now that's unfriendly.

Good luck with the S3, they are lovely cars and will do you proud.

Mike

I shall have to venture more onto VWAudi forum.

After a good clean

After a good clean

Nice, I think I want one

 

A big step up the pecking order I think

Nice, I think I want one

 

A big step up the pecking order I think

It has most of the things I wanted. I'd like to retrofit the phone box so I can get a better signal on the phone. Unlike the bluetooth rsap on the octavia it uses the Message Access Protocol to read texts on the phone, this does have the advantage of leaving the texts on your phone.

my old octavia elegance tdi 56 plate almost same type of accident with same damage end of nov & my wife filled the tank the day before it got smacked / my insurance classed it as cat c,i got £2900 plus i managed to remove the nav unit before it was carted away. i replaced it with a 2011 superb 16se