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Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:27 pm
by cherub72
Hi,
After my bucket seats were stolen a few weeks ago I have managed to find a replacement set, not in the right colour but that's phase 2 of the operation.
My question is this, are they just a straight swap out if I'm going from buckets to buckets or will I need to tell the system that it's looking at something new?
Thanks
Re: Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:41 pm
by bam_bam
Your buckets were stolen?!?!
Re: Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:44 pm
by cherub72
Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:18 pm
by brn7y
Did you buy the car from the insurance?
Re: Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:27 pm
by cherub72
Hi , I'm in the process of sorting it out now. Insurance companies don't buy second hand so they wrote it off. I can get second hand off ebay and most of the bits I need are either out there or not too expensive from Audi.
Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:34 pm
by brn7y
Will it get a Cat-D?
Re: Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:36 pm
by bam_bam
But won't this be marked as CAT C or D or whatever?
Re: Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:43 pm
by wms
How come the car was a write off as i thought the seats were £7k ish to fully replace?
Re: Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:16 am
by adsgreen
Price selling car for scrap and spares minus buckets - £15,000
Payout to customer £20k so net loss of 5k
Replace and retrim new seats 7k so 7k loss.
More cost effective to bin the car.
Re: Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:32 pm
by cherub72
Actually, cash from insurance is 20k, cost of buy back is £7k leaving me £13k. Seats off eBay £1700, other bits to fix damage £500
Result - happy
Re: Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:40 pm
by HYFR
EH?!?!?! so you are buying a Cat D RS 4 cab with no seats for £7k ?
FECK ME thats bargain of the century !!!
Re: Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:43 pm
by bam_bam
cherub72 wrote:Actually, cash from insurance is 20k, cost of buy back is £7k leaving me £13k. Seats off eBay £1700, other bits to fix damage £500
Result - happy
Hell yeah! How is that possible? The insurance company valued it at £7k for sale, wow.
Re: Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:55 pm
by AdrianD
A great result from a crappy situation... Nice one
Re: Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:01 pm
by adsgreen
cherub72 wrote:Actually, cash from insurance is 20k, cost of buy back is £7k leaving me £13k. Seats off eBay £1700, other bits to fix damage £500
Result - happy
Jeez! That is a good deal. I though it'd be a lot more than that - possibly even borderline close...
Even taking into account the loss of value for it being Cat C/D you're still better off. And I think that if you do come to sell the car and make it clear about why it was cat D I don't actually think you'll lose that much.
Bucket seat replacement
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:13 pm
by brn7y
cherub72 wrote:Actually, cash from insurance is 20k, cost of buy back is £7k leaving me £13k. Seats off eBay £1700, other bits to fix damage £500
Result - happy
I don't get it, if they valued the car at £15k why would they then sell it to you for £7k as that now means they paid out £13k instead of £5k if they had parted the car.
I am however not a accountant!