Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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regardless of value or not, never except the first offer.
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Stu_22
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
Location: Luton
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Asked for £11,500 car was around 11k miles with climate control afl lights and automatic wipers and lights can't find any like it
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Tiger
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Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
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I've got a RUI combat knife and an iron bar next to my bed and I would not even for a second hesitate using it, I would be happy doing time for assaulting a burglar even given the risks.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Happy doing time for someone who would end up getting massive compensation for you injuring him, sounds good.
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Tiger
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Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
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Satisfaction far exceeds any money they would get.
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Gaz
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Registered: 24th Aug 03
Location: Widnes, Cheshire
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quote: Originally posted by John
Happy doing time for someone who would end up getting massive compensation for you injuring him, sounds good.
And that's not always true now-a-days as the gov have quite rightly said they will stand up for home-owners and burglars will be prosecuted anyway.
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Tiger
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I understand where johns coming from, if I'm there hacking away at a burglar with a combat knife, I doubt I'll have my hand shaken by the law
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
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quote: Originally posted by Nismo
regardless of value or not, never except the first offer.
Depends if you have a hire car or not as you may become liable for the hire car costs from once they have given you a offer. Way that we value cars is by simply going on autotrader and seeing ones the same age, spec and rough mileage and what they are going for.
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Stu_22
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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Haven't taken a hire car as guess they would take that into account when paying out
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SVM 286
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Registered: 13th Feb 05
Location: pain
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quote: Originally posted by Tiger
Satisfaction far exceeds any money they would get.
And if you did it right, they wouldn't be in any position to spend any money.
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Corsa_Sport21
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Registered: 13th Apr 08
Location: Leven, Fife. Drives : 205 GTi
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And if you did it right, no one would ever know, and you wouldn't do time.
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Generation
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Registered: 7th Jul 09
Location: Essex
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I would do lots of Hollywood things
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Stu_22
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
Location: Luton
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Got them up to £10k for the arctic. This is with nation wide network services he is saying any higher and it has to go back to the insurer(quote me happy).
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Toby
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Registered: 29th Nov 05
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Are thy an accident management company? If your happy then fair enough but sounds like they are spinning you a line.
Insurance companies take work but will payout with valid proof that it's worth a particular value.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Why are you not dealing direct with the insurance
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Stu_22
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
Location: Luton
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This is the way this insurance company seems to work by farming everything out to other companies the investigation side of things was done by G4S
The offer of £10k would get me another arctic vxr but not like mine and there aren't any like mine for sale so it's difficult to get them to bump up the offer
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
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Deal with the insurance company direct. It's a lot easier to talk to them.
In my dealings the 3rd parties are an arse to deal with and take so much time to do anything. Aldo they will be taking a huge cut. By going direct with insurance you will get slot better offer as they will be saving money dealing direct with you.
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Stu_22
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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Astra valuation is in now £6300 I paid £8000 last march
I know I paid over the odds but it was fully loaded
Anyone have access to valuation sites and can get one with mileage an optional extras included in value
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A2H GO
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Registered: 14th Sep 04
Location: Stoke
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Plus a hit on your insurance for the next 3 years or whatever it is.
I hate cars, too much hassle.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Losing £1700 on an astra in a year would standard even if you hadn't paid over the odds.
I know it's shit that you are worse off because someone has stolen the cars, but the figures they are giving are completely realistic.
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