Knocked off...

[Stu]

Any more than £2500 and it will fail your w/o test so you won't be able to make a profit.
Real world, I would value Cat D at no more than £200 - £300 difference between a repaired bike and a non crashed one

if it was repaired back to original (or better - like standard can for road legal)

I would bite their hand off at £900 profit and live with scratches or repair them for another £100-£200.

Originally Posted by BillyC

If this is the difficulty that your other half has had just to get a hire-bike, then his problem is his Solicitor. If your vehicle is written off, or unavailable through an accident that is no fault of your own, you are entitled to a replacement immediately - and if that means providing a hire bike while yours is repaired, or estimated and paid for, then tough - that's the way it is.

yep, i had this problem awhen i as rear ended. eike passed my details onto a hire company. Be sure this is gonna be 100% their fault otherwise they will try and charge you but they were ok for me. i had to justify why i needed the hire bike but as i can't drive/ don't have a car it was a no brainer- watch the excess on the hire bike though- mine was £500

Police lady was surprised I got a signature out of the guy, apparently he doesn't have to Shocked

by law all he has to do is give his details. questions about liability and so forth dont have to be answered. (infact most insurance companies get VERY tetchy about there customer admitting liability)

if you can get the value up and keep it cat D then bonus! Keep thinkin if this happened to me it'd be a nice little earner! not that i want to be knocked off again...have the stress, pain, etc....

repair it, dont worry about the cosmetics. Just make it safe. you can then sell it if you simply must have a pristine machine, and go shoppin for another bike. either way you should make a profit!

Paul

[Kylie]

questions about liability and so forth dont have to be answered

He was happy to sign the picture we drew because he claimed that having his indicator on gave him the right to do whatever crazy move he liked. I wasn't going to argue with him (why tell him he's an idiot if he wants to sign that he is).

repair it, dont worry about the cosmetics.

Agreed. I've no need of a show bike, the scratches will make a talking point, and I don't have to get stressed over bungee burns or tank scratches any more!

[Kylie]

Bike is back on the road and is as nice to ride as she ever was!

Last week repairers would not release "salvage" bike until paid, insurers denied receiving invoice. I phoned them twice a day for 7 days, eventually I got elevated to "complaint" status and got to talk to someone who has a clue, they phoned repairers and reminded them that they are "approved" and can release before payment, repairer released immediately. WTF??

I'd already bought the parts I needed (£100 and 2 day delivery from nice people at suzuki-spares.co.uk) and it took me 3 hours of wrench work to fit. Scratches aren't as bad as I remembered, its a joke that the bike was written off for that. I'll have to bring it in to Soho some time and share the joke....

I need to find out what happens if you don't use the approved repairer. If this ever happens again I'd rather sort the bike out myself, not sure I can do that and still claim off other party....

so all in all quite a good result. glad your ok and kylie back on the road

[Kylie]

"Write-off category D: Uneconomical to repair" damage:

Originally Posted by Kylie

"Write-off category D: Uneconomical to repair" damage:

What I found after mt GPz was written off is they will cost the replacment of everything that has a scratch on it with new parts, they costed up the wheels as they had scratches on them etc. They paid out £2700 on my GPz at the time, I got knocked of and the bike went over but only hit the floor at 6mph according to the accident investigator, no way I did around £2500 worth of damage.