I got rear ended last week on motorway, insurance just confirmed its not economical  to repair:(.

They did however give a good price for me to keep the salvage.

As this looks to be a very rare car with lots of options im wondering if it's worth keeping to fix or sell on as damaged? Damage is classed as cat s , the panel behind the light inside boot is creased.

Can you phone up salvage company's and ask if they will buy?

 

2011 superb estate with the 2.0tfsi engine with quad exhaust. Panoramic sunroof. Heated seats. Sat nav etc.

 

 

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If you buy it from the insurance company you can do with it what you like, yes of course ring around but wait to see what you need for your replacement.

 

If it were me I would keep the Bluetooth module

headlights and modules

rear light clusters

seats if leather

door mirrors

columbus

shark fin aerial

 

then sell the rest as scrap, either keep the spares or sell them as high value items.

the price you will get will be reduced if you have removed these items.

I don’t think insurance companies give away cars for peanuts if you buy back. That’s my experience over the last couple of years. I priced up a purchase and parts bolt on/spray repair of a Golf. Was not worth the hassle for me anyway. 

4 hours ago, Pody said:

Can you phone up salvage company's and ask if they will buy?

 

 

 

Not sure what you are asking here, is it that you want to buy the vehicle back from your insurers and then sell it to a salvage company?

 

If so then forget it, when vehicles are towed away after an accident to the  insurers approved salvage yard, if the vehicle is an uneconomic repair and you the owner do not take up the salvage option then they are tied into a deal with the insurer to purchase the salvage for an agreed percentage of the insurance payout which in the case of your vehicle will probably be 25%, thats the scam of insurance, you insure your car for £20K, they probably only pay you out £16K and will bet back £4K for the salvage.

 

No salvage company is going to pay more money for a vehicle than the insurers sold it back to its owner fro when they have a yard full of vehicles that they will get for less with no negotiation.

As has been suggested above, I don't think any salvage place is going to give you any more than your insurance would want for you to buy it. 

 

Only way you can make good money is to strip the whole car and part it all out yourself before getting somebody to collect the shell for scrap when you are done. Lots of effort and messing about

Check if any pyrotechnic devices have fired (airbags, seatbelt pretensioners, etc) - a VCDS scan will show this. When I crashed my first Superb (front end collision) the pyrotechnics alone added up to about €3k in replacement parts.

 

I don't know how it works in the UK, but here the insurance companies use a software package for working out repair cost that bases the repair on retail parts cost and book value for time. This inevitably prices the repair far above what it would actually cost to do it (which is why salvage companies buy Cat C/D writeoffs - there's enough margin to make money on repairing and selling it).

 

Find a competent repairer in your area and ask them to quote for the repair job and see where that leaves you. You may find that the bill will be smaller than the insurance payout.

It may not be an economical repair for the insurance company, but as already stated they will use brand new parts and be aiming for a repair standard to equal or better than before the collision.

 

If you know the cars history and had it not been written off you'd have kept it until it died, then I'd be buying if off the insurance company and getting it repaired locally.

 

You could even make some money out of the situation.

 

A good shout above though, check if the pre-tensioners on the seat belts have deployed. They sound expensive. Panels, plastics and paint should be relatively easy.

I did remove a few things from the Golf4 we had written off last year before the salvage trailer turned up. Gamma radio and CD. Bee-sting aerial and carpet mats. 

Never got a complaint from anyone post collection. I was going to sell on but I gave them away to an elderly gent around the corner who had a mint example I admired. He never had a radio at all from factory. He was grateful of course. I wished I took more out our Golf TSI the year before like the double din radio/cd. I stopped myself at seats and lights, too obvious. Lol 

the Columbus is worth keeping alone for you. 

My Superb II got rear-ended too on the M4.  I was surprised that it wasn't written off, but the third party insurer agreed to repair it.  This was even though the rear pillars were crumpled and the hatch no longer closed.  The Fiesta that rear-ended me was a total write-off.  This was an 2011 1.8Tsi 4x4 elegance.  I also got free use of a Hyundai Tucson for 3 weeks while they fixed it.

Since the third party was at fault and accepted liability it was their insurer that handled everything. My insurer wasn't really involved.