coozer
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| posted on 18/9/11 at 11:20 AM |
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Cheap Fiesta.. ahem...
A Cat D???? Kidding me!
2009 Ford Fiesta 1.2 Zetec 82 Damaged Salvage Cat D | eBay
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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omega0684
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| posted on 18/9/11 at 11:34 AM |
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i wouldn't have been surprised if int he add it said
"Minor damage that im sure will polish out!" 
I love Pinto's, even if i did get mine from P&O!
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hillbillyracer
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| posted on 18/9/11 at 12:22 PM |
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How the hell do they decide on the classification of these things?! I've never bought a damaged car to repair myself but I've bought them
as spares cars & been involved with a few that have gone back on the road & it varies wildly. You see something like that as a Cat D &
other times a Cat B with very little wrong, mabye even usuable as it is.
To be fair though with that Fiesta it may be nowhere near as bad as it looks, I know of a Punto that looked about as bad but there was no structural
damage at all, just the top edge of the inner wing & the slam panel around the headlight were the only parts with any real damage that
wern't bolt on. 6 months old under 4k on the clock & back on the road for about £3000 all in.
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 18/9/11 at 12:45 PM |
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"It is a Cat D but we have no V5 at the moment" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 18/9/11 at 12:48 PM |
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The categorisations are not opinions, but mathematics
Cat D Repairable where the estimated repair costs are not economic, but do not exceed the value of the vehicle
Cat C Repairable where the estimated repair costs exceed the value of the vehicle
Cat B Not repairable, but the salvage retains value, break only
Cat A Not repairable where the salvage has no value
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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hillbillyracer
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| posted on 18/9/11 at 04:57 PM |
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That's just it though, quite often the cars dont seem to fit in the catergary they've been given.
You'll see something that's had an mabye a scrape up the side needing a wing & two doors or a light engine bay or dash fire & fair
enough the repair cost is beyond the value of the vehicle due to it being something like 8-10 years old or a classic but still perfectly repairable
but it's a Cat B. And at the other end of the scale there'll be a Cat D looking like it really should be on a jig to at least make sure
it's still straight & needing a load of parts & you struggle to see how it could be fixed (at least taking labour & new parts into
account) for less than it'd be worth just before it was crashed.
It may be based on mathematics but it's decided by a human being, using their opinion!
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 19/9/11 at 07:23 PM |
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It is normally decided by a computer program called Audatex, you simply add all the damage details, list the parts and it throws a total at you
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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