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Jigging my ed30..
« on: May 26, 2010, 11:13:20 am »
well as some of you may or may not know i almost killed my car about a month ago  :sad1:



anyhow the insurance has approved all the repairs, £14k of them  :surprised: and the repairs started ealrier this week   

now the car requires some jigging work on the front struts to realign it all, I have never had any experience of this but a few people have mentioned to me that it will never be the same again and advised me to get rid of it

anyone have any experience with jigging a car? and if i flog it will the repairs effect the resale value or do I not have to disclose the repairs?

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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2010, 11:22:11 am »
were jigging my mates mk3 tonight, as long as its done well and aligned probably youd never know unless looking at the creases on the arms. alsong as everything is aligned youd never know the difference, has the roof creased?


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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2010, 11:36:18 am »
cheers joe

roof is fine  :happy2: just the front struts/arms the tech mentioned to me which needed jigging

suppose I will have to wait until I get it back in a few weeks time to see what i think to it all, but my initial feelings are to get rid  :sad1:

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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2010, 11:38:01 am »
with such an expensive car as yours i think i would get rid, but if you have gone through the insurence then the car will be regestered as a cat D/C??


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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2010, 11:39:18 am »
the thing with getting your car back will be all in your head saying its not the same as before and you will get rid  :sad1: its just what happens

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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2010, 11:39:37 am »
crikey  :surprised: how did you land in the shrubbery then?

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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2010, 11:40:13 am »
with such an expensive car as yours i think i would get rid, but if you have gone through the insurence then the car will be regestered as a cat D/C??

no it wont joe as they have not wrote the car off its being fixed

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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2010, 11:41:27 am »

no it wont joe as they have not wrote the car off its being fixed

tsk tsk tsk

"written"  :P :grin:

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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2010, 11:42:39 am »
 :P :P i knew i should have put written off  :P

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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2010, 11:45:35 am »
crikey  :surprised: how did you land in the shrubbery then?

wet road and and brand spanking new track-tyres.. lost it going round a bend  :ashamed:

with such an expensive car as yours i think i would get rid, but if you have gone through the insurence then the car will be regestered as a cat D/C??

no it wont joe as they have not wrote the car off its being fixed

cheers mat, i thought that was the case in the uk, with there been no record kept of repairs work
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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2010, 11:52:15 am »
i thought if any car needs jigging then its a write off??


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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2010, 11:55:00 am »
i thought if any car needs jigging then its a write off??

no mate its just if the cost of repair is more than the car is worth then it gets written off

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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2010, 11:58:58 am »
i dont think thats the case, they either write it off or they repair it  :confused:

they valued it at 17k and the repairs came in at 14k including labour etc, so must have come close to been a write off
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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2010, 12:01:58 pm »
i worked around the bodyshop area for years mate and like i said above thats the case

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Re: Jigging my ed30..
« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2010, 12:30:53 pm »
eek! bad luck m8

surprised to be honest as 14 out of 17 is 82% of the value, around 60% can trigger a writeup so youve been unlucky there.
car shouldnt have it recorded , and if done correctly should be fine once repaired.

good luck  :happy2:
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