Just been looking on Ebay at scooby stuff and saw this ad for a WRX03 thats been badly damaged. Did it belong to anyone on here???

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...category=18277

 

PMSL! looks like a bog standard WRX with 17" rims, doubtful if it has 18" wheels, 300bhp and a 30k price tag!

12k and the reserve not met, the car is at best worth about 16k with no recorded history! by the time it gets fixed up it will have cost the best part of 15k and have an HPi glitch. Smashed up motors arn't worth the hassle unless you get em cheap and run them into the ground, i.e below 6k!

 

There was a thread about that car on here a few days ago. AFAIK ithe bloke selling it bought it for around £6k and was advertising it on eBay as a UK300, which it isn't. He changed part of the ad after people on here complained.

 

I am trying to work out why the insurance company hasn't fixed it.

The damage must be a lot worse than it looks (or am I missing something)???

Surely any 03 plate Impreza would have had to be insured Fully Comp, as I thought there were insurance company rules that when a car is of a certain value it must be insured as Fully Comp.

 

Yeah isnt it anything over 5k must be fully comp?

 

Yes I agree, most companies insist new vehicles over a certain value are insured full comp.


I reckon so! Can only assume this car may have some sort of structural damage or maybe the airbag has gone off (I heard that if the airbag has activated the vehicle must be written off).

Who knows!

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This guy should be reported to E-bay and trading standards.

 

not being funny but with relation to it being a right off, like someone said depends on chassic damage etc.. but also weather the person was legitalmatly insured on the car if u know wot i mean! or (from experiance) knowing there people at the repair garage it gets taken to!!! my girlfriend got hit by a drunk driver in her 106 gti and did a lot of suspesion, panel and air bag damage to the car etc... they were gunna pass it to be repaired but we had a word and they wrote it off!! so we went out and got a replacement car with the money rather than having a repaired car!!! cos once a car has had suspension damage it will neaver drive the same imo!!

 

Anyone ever heard of a WRX running 300+ BHP on a standard xhaust ? I suspect not !

As for £30,000, he's having a laugh or was ripped off by his dealer

 

If the chasis is at all bent insurance companies do not repair (i.e. jig) they always insist on new parts, i.e. cut it out and weld a new one in. As you can imagine this normally writes the car off, most of these places charge labour out at about £75 per hour, it's not surprising.

Looks like the seller is a muppet non the less!

 

insurance companies often repair cars with chassis damage either requiring new panels or repairing originals.this can't be done on many aluminium cars though. they will also repair cars when airbags are deployed.
this owner of this car may have taken a policy that means when a repair reaches a certain percentage of the cars value it will be written off (60% is fairly common) or if the car was running 300+ brake and hadn't declared it to his ins co they may have chucked the claim out and the owner may have decided to sell it and cut his losses (just guesses!)
btw most bodyshops labour rate p/h is approx £23-30 not £70+. bodyshops cant charge as much as service as repairs are generally longer than servicing and would result in loads of write offs