garethscott

Hi
My bonnet just exploded on me into my screen, totally destroyed it and damaged the roof and the two wings!!!, its going to be an insurance job, who in the Skipton area/north west/ leeds area would you recommend. Car was in mint condition and I've owned it since new
garety

bobbyd182

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Take a look at "S H restorations"

Never used them but their work looks spot on from pictures ive seen..

Not sure if they'd do paint or if it's just full restoration work.. they are On FB.

ZANY

Did your bonnet really explode!! Or did you not shut it properly ?

What year and model is it there's plenty of decent bodyshops around but if car is old it'll be a writeoff unfortunately especially if roof is damaged all depends how new the car is??

Any pics of the damage bro ??

joe v3sti

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Steven hill is a very good friend of mine, his work is absolutely excellent. I would recommend him highly. Check out the facebook page, plenty of examples of his work on there.

garethscott

hope its not a write off
2007 sti
photo's attached, its the damage to the roof I'm worried about

360ste

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Ouch!!!

mickywrx

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Knocking on 10 year old car, might get written off as unecomical to repair. Probably easy enough to fix though.

ZANY

That roof crease must make it a cat C writeoff it's pretty bad that bro
Hope the insurance sorts it out without much hassle and then you'll get an even better one
and your ok yourself could have been worse...

joe v3sti

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Zany please stop saying bro in every sentence mate lol

ae82mad

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Scary is that tbf. How did this happen? Did you not shut the bonnet or something?

ZANY

As you've asked so nicely mate I will defo try not to

but I'm not making any promises and my sincere apologies in advance just incase I do bruv
hope you have a sikkk new year joe

garethscott

last time I looked under the bonnet must of been November to check oil and water!!!, I thought there was some safety catch to stop this happening. Love the car had it since new and think if it is a write off family life will mean a sensible diesel

joe v3sti

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Haha cheers Zany

ZANY

Them new levorg's are nice




The one in white is a leveraged nice family car



And you can still have an sti aswell :-)

garethscott

ok, if it is not an economically viable repair, I want to keep the car, so where do I get a bonnet from for a 2006/7 sti?

wrx300scooby

Seeing as you're in Yorkshire, Motorhog in Doni would be a good place to start.

garethscott

excellent thanks

ZANY

Try scoobyteknix forgot there new name they are based in Blackpool/fleetwood they broke one exact same colour hawkeye few months back pal or try mattyb on here

ronjeramy

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Grant at GHL Bodyworks in Osset done some work on my car and a lot of car in West Yorkshire Subaru Owners Club cars. He owns a couple scoobs, good lad and fair prices

cuprajake

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Really depends on how they value the car.

Write off is around 70% of the cars value, they use gap and glasses guide so prepare for a fight on the price what there worth and what they sell for are two very different things.

As for the repair you have around a grand in parts plus vat,

Then a good grand in labour and paint I'd say any big ins shop is going to charge around 3k to repair it,

You could ask for a cash in leu payment as you can't buy them back now

joe v3sti

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Just sell it to me and have done

HoodedLime

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I can confirm that. He did rear arches on my wagon and my roof with new windscreen fitting as well. I had some rust above windscreen and a few big(ish) dents

Jonnys3

Has this changed in the last 12 months then ?

Mine was a cat-c write-off last Feb (2016) ... similar front-end damage but nothing else . My insurance company (Elephant) wouldn't let my take cash in leu after they wrote my car off even though I asked for that option; they wrote the car off as beyond economical repair and proceeded make me an offer for the car (which I initially refused because it was £2k below the actual value of the car) and after negotiations I was able to buy it back as salvage and get it repaired.

The irony is that it cost less to buy the car back and repair it fully, than it did for the insurance company to write it off as beyond economical repair.

HoodedLime

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I just settled my claim, like 2 weeks ago. I've been hit on the side. Bent front strut, hub, suspension arm, damaged 2 wheels and 2 doors. Car was written off. Got paid out as much as I paid for car a year ago and I chose to keep the car. All took just under 30 days and was quite smooth so it isn't that bad.

Jonnys3

Yeah, mine was settled in less than a month too. Most time-consuming part was gathering evidence to show that the value of my car was more than what they'd originally offered me.

The Grift

Need both my classic rear arches doing!! Rough figure?

HoodedLime

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I think it cost me some £150 but it was only a quick surface job as I was having wide arches fitted later.

The Grift

No worries fella. I'm nipping to see Grant in the morning. Always good to know the guy doing the work is a scooby enthusiast😀

joe v3sti

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Grift are you in Yorkshire mate? You gonna sell me that inlet yet mate lol

The Grift

I am indeed but don't have an inlet for sale!!!! Another Grift perhaps?