Bucket seat replacement

Post by **cherub72** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:27 pm

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

Post by **bam_bam** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:41 pm

Your buckets were stolen?!?!

Post by **cherub72** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:44 pm

Yes, it was not nice

http://forum.rs246.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=97771

Post by **brn7y** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:18 pm

Did you buy the car from the insurance?

Post by **cherub72** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:27 pm

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.

Post by **brn7y** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:34 pm

Will it get a Cat-D?

Post by **bam_bam** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:36 pm

But won't this be marked as CAT C or D or whatever?

Post by **wms** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:43 pm

How come the car was a write off as i thought the seats were £7k ish to fully replace?

Post by **adsgreen** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:16 am

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.

Post by **cherub72** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:32 pm

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

Post by **HYFR** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:40 pm

EH?!?!?! so you are buying a Cat D RS 4 cab with no seats for £7k ?

FECK ME thats bargain of the century !!!

Post by **bam_bam** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:43 pm

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.

Post by **AdrianD** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:55 pm

A great result from a crappy situation... Nice one

Post by **adsgreen** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:01 pm

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.

Post by **brn7y** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:13 pm

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!

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