[pete-p]

I'm not certain that an agreed valuation is required. Even though Glasses and others value the car at about £2k this isn't really the market value according the ombudsman (as I well know after mine was damaged). According to the ombudsman market value means "the likely cost to the customer of buying a car as near possibly identical". This would just be a matter of looking for near identical cars for sale, or perhaps recently sold. I was also in the fortunate position of only buying mine a few months before the accident so still had a sales receipt which confirmed the true market value.

I guess that the problem will be with the diminishing numbers of D2 S8s available for sale it's going to be hard to find one near identical.