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brady72
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Hi, I was recently in a crash, the third party was 100% responsible for the incident. My car has been deemed un-ecomomical to repair, basically a write off. The assessor from the TP's ins company has informed me that he is submitting the book value as his assesment, but implied that i could "negotiate" it, but that he has little leaway. My car has about 10k less miles on it than what is quoted in the "book" - plus it had full extras (cd player, electric windows/mirrors, cc bumpers /alarm etc etc). i have looked on line and have found cars of similar spec, though higher milage advertised for on average, at very least 1,000 sometimes 1,500 euro more than the book value. I know from my own experience of shopping for cars, and from that of friends, that garages do not give all that much off cars in reality (unless to people in the trade, or in cases where car is obvisually over-priced, but not to joe soap!), even for cash! (in fact some garges i chose not to deal with last time i was shopping practically laughed at the idea of a discount for cash, and after much too-ing and fro-ing could at most offer a hundred euro off the price) How do i go about negotiating a higher recommend replacement value? I feel like i am going to be out of pocket as well as being very inconvenienced for an incident that was in no way my fault!
Does anyone else have advice/experience of this?
Does anyone else have advice/experience of this?