Can I stop my car being written off?
I have just been involved in an accident where I was hit from behind. My car is 8 years old so of low financial value and I suspect that the body work damage will be too costly for the insurance company and they will want to write it off (the car is worth only £1000 ). The car has been taken away to the repair shop .
Can I ask the insurers not to write the car off but simply to return it to so I can pay for the repairs or is it too late? It is otherwise mechanically sound, regularly serviced, very reliable and worth far more to me that £1000 especially if I have to buy a replacement.
Can I ask the insurers not to write the car off but simply to return it to so I can pay for the repairs or is it too late? It is otherwise mechanically sound, regularly serviced, very reliable and worth far more to me that £1000 especially if I have to buy a replacement.
Asked on 10 September 2012 by DAVID HEMINGWAY
Answered by
Honest John
Yes, you can insist on this. Do it as quickly as possible. They have no right to write your car off if you have instructed them not to.
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