Thanks for the wake up call, Mum...

[Mrk_Mickey]

Thanks dude If only I could win them over on the public's opinion eh

[Jarred]

Thanks dude If only I could win them over on the public's opinion eh

if only mate. Whole situation suck. evauluation is pityful too.

[BL33SU]

$4k

insult

[Treza360]

Seriously that's ****ed mate. Don't think I can read this thread anymore until everything gets sorted, so mad. Let me know when that happens so I don't have to get so pissed off all the time...
Cheers,
Trent

[The_Hawk]

At the moment you are at the mercy of the other persons insurer who wants to get out of this as cheap as possible.

Get the car independantly valued (by someone reputable (or a couple of people)) and serve the driver with a letter of demand for the repair value or if it needs to be a write off, the value - a reasonable salvage cost.
It costs about $50 to have it served by the sherrif, but it has a nice impact when delivered that way. This also means they have 30 days (or something like that) to respond. It will also will start a nice paper trail for if you have to go to court. Get all the quotes in writing, get the salvage values in writing. Get all the photo's of your car showing it's good condition.
Make notes of EVERYTHING that is said including time and date. This includes the short convo's with the insurer, the other driver, the assessor, the courts, EVERYONE.

At the end of the day if you front up in court organised, with all the facts, photo's notes, quotes and otherwise, there is a damn good chance they will have minimal information and will loose.

At the same time it's worth giving the insurer a chance to make good (although I wouldn't be waiting for them). In short come up with a number your happy with and put it to them. Remember that they will have to pay to go to court and the other driver will most likely have to take a day off work to be there too.

Lets say it's $7k - $1,500 salvage = $5,500 fo you to walk away with your "wreck". Do they really want to screw around for the sake of an extra $1,500 in cash?



At the end of the day put EVERYTHING on the other driver, not her insurer.

[Mrk_Mickey]

Seriously that's ****ed mate. Don't think I can read this thread anymore until everything gets sorted, so mad. Let me know when that happens so I don't have to get so pissed off all the time...
Cheers,
Trent

Haha sorry mate, you will easily be able to imagine my state of mind then . I am currently awaiting the call from the NRMA, and when he calls me I know what to do. In simple terms, I need to prove to him with my argument and evidence that my car is worth more than 4k.

[The_Hawk]

Haha sorry mate, you will easily be able to imagine my state of mind then . I am currently awaiting the call from the NRMA, and when he calls me I know what to do. In simple terms, I need to prove to him with my argument and evidence that my car is worth more than 4k.

Like I said, work out your numbers first and start with I will not accept anything below $x,xxx in cash + keeping my car to repair myself.

[thestu]

dude thats f***ed!

hope you sort all this crap out! i hate insurance companies!

[SoVeReIgN]

Insurance companies and panel beaters are all ****s.

Thats all, you've got good advice from people in this thread so far.

[AusScare]

Bloody hell $4k, how do they think you're going to replace your car with that much. Cheapest carsales vr6 is $5.9k near you. Rediculous.