Insurance Settlement...advice Required

[Badlass]

After writing off my car last week I have been offered a settlement of £7800 for an 03/03 1.4i SX Auto C3.
As I haven't had to deal with this sort of thing before I am looking for any advice anyone can offer.
Until last weeks fiasco the car was in immaculate condition inside and out.
Does anyone have any idea of the book price, or what I should be looking for as a settlement???

Thanks in advance


BL

[hertsnminds]

The autotrader website www.autotrader.co.uk has a what's it worth button and this gives the following...
(this assumed 1800 miles on the clock)

What you pay for one from a dealer £7,409
What you pay from a private seller £7.047

What you would get as a part exchange £6,410
What the trade would pay for one £6,214

Cost new £9,870

You could also look on the Citroen website and see how much dealers are asking for them by doing a used car search.

Ian
Orange 03 Senso (Pluriel)

[Ivor E Tower]

Most insurance companies should replace a car under 1 year old with another brand new one. Have you checked your small-print carefully?

[Badlass]

Thanks very much for the facts and figures...I'm just gonna take the money and run after speaking to my citroen dealer. Unfortunately the car is actually 16 months old, so doesn't fall into the new car category :o

[terrwilk]

After writing off my car last week I have been offered a settlement of £7800 for an 03/03 1.4i SX Auto C3.

As I haven't had to deal with this sort of thing before I am looking for any advice anyone can offer.

Until last weeks fiasco the car was in immaculate condition inside and out.

Does anyone have any idea of the book price, or what I should be looking for as a settlement???

 

Thanks in advance

BL

 

Hi there

 

sorry to hear of your loss, try getting downloads of adverts of your car from the web, copy the documents, try ebay for a price for the lowest then the dealers for the highest, then www.parkers.co.uk for a price to buy your exact car, send the whole lot off to the insurance Company, sit back and wait to deal with some speckie, crater faced 'youf', who will try to tell you that your car is 'worff' nought!! Tell him/her that this in not the case, i.e. be polite, even though they have insulted you and your poor disabled car!!! should be a law against this, are you listening 'idiots in EU?' lol, sorry distracted there.

 

I did this last claim and it worked for me, got highest book price, nice.

 

Good luck

 

Terry

[Guest xsaravtr]

After writing off my car last week I have been offered a settlement of £7800 for an 03/03 1.4i SX Auto C3.

As I haven't had to deal with this sort of thing before I am looking for any advice anyone can offer.

Until last weeks fiasco the car was in immaculate condition inside and out.

Does anyone have any idea of the book price, or what I should be looking for as a settlement???

 

Thanks in advance

BL

i would take it straight away as it is a write off. if you plan to get insured through the same company

again, try not to get on their bad side. im sure you could pick up the same sort of car with your

settlement and still have money spare to go towards your next policy. try gocompare.com for cheaper insurance. i was paying £895 a year insurance for my gold xsara vtr until i got on their site. got a quote back for less than half that. that was with 3 years ncd. hope everything goes well. hope you have

a better 2008.