Thankful my kid was driving a ford

[Vesper Martini]

Originally Posted by roddy1960

G'day...GLAD SHE'S OKAY...CARS CAN BE FIXED OR REPLACED . PEOPLE CAN'T... Now..Re the AU..Forgive my ignorance on this stuff but where do they draw the line on repairable write off and total 'write off'... I suppose it's when the cost of repair matches the market or insured value of the car.

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Pretty much so it doesn't take much to write off an old Falcon

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The reason I ask is that about thee months ago a former workmate nearly collided with a cow late one night in his XF Ute..The car finished up in a ditch .
Next morning when he got it dragged out it was visually not too bad. He was hoping to hear back from his insurance company that it was repairable because he'd had it since brand new. He loved that ute. He replaced the L.H. front wheel and drove it home about 20 kms..

A couple of weeks later I bumped into him and asked how he got on..They wrote it off and the buy back price was more than he could afford..
To say I was skeptical was an under statement. Bloody insurance companies sometimes because they'll take you down any way they can.

He ended up buying a BA RTV with the 3V V8. in Fair nick but it sounds like a threshing machine at idle..A dodgey VCT cam phaser apparently..
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Sorry to pick up on this, but if he couldn't afford to Buy back the XF how could he afford the BA RTV with the 3V V8?

cheaper?