Our Scrappage, Recycling and Car Blog
Salvage
Category filter applied
Previous 5 entries | Page 2 of 3 | Next 5 entries
Should I use websites, like Cazoo, to sell my car?
If you are thinking of selling your car, there are numerous ways in which you can do so.
A private sale will involve arranging viewings with the potential buyers. You may have to put up with tyre kickers, time wasters and haggling. If this doesn’t appeal, you have two choices.
What is Cat D?
As you may have seen in some of our previous blog posts, there are many different types of vehicle categories when it comes to car insurance write-offs. Some vehicles are placed into categories that deem they are capable of being restored to roadworthy condition, while others are placed into categories that insist they should be scrapped and recycled for parts.
Fortunately, the Cat D category falls into the former group of vehicles. This article is designed to uncover all you need to know about Category D vehicles, a category that has recently been consigned to the history books.
What is Cat N?
In October 2017, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) introduced new car insurance write-off categories for road vehicles, replacing the previous Cat C and Cat D classifications with Cat S and Cat N respectively. The new categories were endorsed by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and the Department for Transport (DfT). Both Cat S and Cat N were introduced to better reflect the growing complexities of repairing 21st century vehicles.
When a car insurance claim is made for a vehicle following an accident or damage due to theft, flood or fire, the insurer will review the vehicle’s damage to ascertain whether the cost of repair is worthwhile – aligned to the vehicle’s value.
What is Cat S?
Category S is one of four categories of write-off that insurance companies use to accurately determine the level of damage a vehicle has suffered to cause it to be written off. In basic terms, a Cat S vehicle is one which is deemed to have sustained structural damage, including its chassis, often as a result of an accident.
In the vast majority of cases, a Cat S vehicle can be repaired despite its structural issues. Nevertheless, repairing structural damage to vehicles can be extremely expensive. That’s why used vehicles with structural damage will often be written off as the repair, administration and possible hire car costs will exceed the total value of the vehicle prior to its accident.
A guide to accident damage repairable cars
At ASM Auto Recycling, every week we sell dozens of salvage vehicles which have been damaged in road accidents up and down the country. The vast majority of these cars have been seized by insurers and ‘written-off’ as the cost of repairs are considered more than the market value of the vehicle.
Previous 5 entries | Page 2 of 3 | Next 5 entries
Categories
- Car Maintenance 26
- Driving Abroad 2
- Economy 1
- Environment 3
- Insurance 2
- Light-Hearted 1
- Manufacturers 1
- Motoring Guides 6
- Motorways 1
- New Car Sales 1
- Safety 3
- Salvage 13
- Social & Community 5
- Used Cars 18
- Winter Driving 2
Recent posts
- Car CO2 Emissions
- How To Replace A Car Air Filter
- MOT: the complete guide
- Used Tyres Guide
- What is GAP insurance?
- Guide to finding a replacement car engine
- Does the scrap value of steel affect your car’s scrap value?
- What are the most valuable salvage car parts?
- The Ultimate Guide to Replacing Wing Mirrors
- ASM Has Procured Over 350 Jaguar and Land Rover Flood-Damaged Cars!
- How To Find Replacement Parts for My Car
- Dos and don’ts of getting rid of your old car
- How to Replace your Serpentine Belt
- How to tax your car (the complete guide)
- Basic Car Maintenance: How to change your spark plugs