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#1
22nd July 2016, 07:19 PM
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Thats really crap!! its bad when you do it yourself but doubly so when some asole does it to you.
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#2
22nd July 2016, 08:17 PM
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Sorry to hear this and can emphathise after mine was hit recently. Glad to hear that fault wasn't questioned - too easy for people to say it was the other way around!
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22nd July 2016, 10:15 PM
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The driver was very apologetic about it. Just an accident and no one was hurt.
My concern now is that the insurance company may write it off, there's a fair amount of stuff needing replacing on the front plus the hire car... 
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#4
22nd July 2016, 10:19 PM
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The hire car is irrelevant to write-off decisions, they need to do that as the collision screwed up your travel plans. It's a cost they have to bear whatever.
Insist on a repair, it's your right, the damage doesn't look significant. If they argue insist they find an equivalent replacement first - you know they can't! That argument worked for me on my first S8, and it was stolen and crashed with no-one found to blame/charge. Over £20K to fix but they did it! 
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#5
23rd July 2016, 01:35 AM
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Omg these people you saw mine not as bad as that it got wrote off that was for just two doors some one left there handbrake off it rolled into mine then on mothers day a women pulls out ito the side of me look in my pic folders you will see damage hope you get it fixed
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#6
23rd July 2016, 06:47 AM
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This looks mainly cosmetic, so as long as the bonnet and wings aren't damaged you should be fine. New bonnets are LHD only and have to be modified to fit, which takes time/labour.
Assuming it's limited to bumper, grills, under headlight trims etc then it won't be cheap but shouldn't write the car off. Those little painted trims under the headlights are about £40 each unpainted. Parking sensors, using genuine parts, are over £100 each.
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#7
23rd July 2016, 08:01 AM
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It does look mostly to be plastic parts that are broken so hopefully will be ok, although the driver's side light has lifted a bit so not sure what's broken underneath everything. The whole crash bar has been pulled forward too. Should find out more next week when the garage get it.
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#8
23rd July 2016, 08:25 AM
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Quote:
I was in a similar situation with a previous A8 I had about 10 years ago when some elderly bloke ran in to the back of me (without braking @ 30-40mph) while I was stopped at a set of temporary traffic lights. His car, a flimsy little Ford focus, was obliterated by the impact (engine pushed right back, almost nothing left of the front end) while my car had a cracked bumper, a small dent in the boot lid and a broken exhaust mount. Fortunately he admitted fault immediately (told me he didn't see the stationary cars because he was looking at some houses at the side of the road!). The insurance company valued my car pretty low (something like £2.5K from memory). They estimated that the repair (inc. a brand new bumper, boot lid and exhaust) would exceed the value of the car so they were pushing to write it off. I don't remember exactly how the process worked (partly because I had someone deal with the insurance company on my behalf) but I ended up keeping the car and received £1600 from the insurance instead. Essentially I think you 'buy back' your car from them and they deduct it's salvage value from what they would've paid you to replace it. If dealt with correctly, as long as the damage is only light, no insurance write-off should be registered against the car. In the end, I had the existing bumper and boot-lid repaired and repainted and the broken exhaust mount replaced for a little over £600, leaving me nearly £1000 in profit!
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#9
23rd July 2016, 09:55 AM
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Damn that sucks
 I had many near-misses in my '99 where people just didn't see it. How do you not see a car that big? The A4 and A6 are nothing like as bad. Its very odd. I have workshop facilities in the SW if you do end up in a payout and fix it yourself situation
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#10
23rd July 2016, 10:08 AM
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gutted to see this damage makes me rage
that can easily be repaired damage looks minor i would not be happy if they complain about it being a write off stand your ground and get it back looking mint again
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