Omega Owners Forum - I've only had it one week

steverubberduck75 Senior Member Offline MV6 BABY!!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 604 Kidderminster Gender: Drives: Omega MV6 estate	Re: I've only had it one week Reply #15 - 31. May 2009 at 21:29 You put photos up using photobucket. Easiest way to show them. With regards to how much you'll get, that could be anything. But i would strongly suggest buying it back off the insurance, either keeping it on the road and having a "cat" on your logbook, or even breaking.
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Andy B

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Re: I've only had it one week
Reply #16 - 31. May 2009 at 21:32

Risky Duckfeet wrote on 31. May 2009 at 21:24:

The missus and bay are fine. Baby's only four months old so wouldn't have even realised.
The write-off thing had occured to me and I'm a little worried about it. The car is absolutly fantastic, better than I'd expected and I waited about four years to get it.
If it does get written off does anyone know how much I am likely to get for it and how much it will cost to buy back?
Would I have complications getting it back on the road or insuring it?
If someone can tell me how to get photo's up on here I can post some.

Don't forget that it's YOU that owns the car & not the other insurance company & don't be bullied into taking it here there or everywhere or leave it at their approved repairers. When SWMBO had her car written off by a 3rd party, it was left at their repairers for assessment for a couple of weeks while they got their act together. After it was officially written off, it came back with further damage! Huh

If I was in the same position again, I'd leave the car on my drive & get them to come to me.
Meet them half way regarding the use of 2nd hand bits or repaired items. Thumbs Up!

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Risky Duckfeet Junior Member Offline Don't look behind you!!! Posts: 102 High Wycombe Gender: Drives: 99 Irmscher 3.0 MV6	Re: I've only had it one week Reply #17 - 31. May 2009 at 22:36 Have a look for yourselves. I think it's rather nice. http://s685.photobucket.com/albums/vv211/riskyduckfeet/ Obviously this is before the tragic event.
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Andy B

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Re: I've only had it one week
Reply #18 - 31. May 2009 at 22:41

Risky Duckfeet wrote on 31. May 2009 at 22:36:

Have a look for yourselves. I think it's rather nice.......

A bargain if you asked me! Wink

markey mark wrote on 30. May 2009 at 23:46:

i have just removed a brink clip on towbar fron a 98 elite its as new ! swan neck still gold in bag with key and lock single electrics all bolts very easy to fit
£50 collected postage at cost Thumbs Up!

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cam2502 Senior Member Offline Posts: 880 dumfries,scotland Gender: Drives: silver 2001 BMW 318i se	Re: I've only had it one week Reply #19 - 31. May 2009 at 22:50 nice looking car did you buy it from ebay recently? the pic of it sitting on the grass rings a bell
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Re: I've only had it one week
Reply #20 - 31. May 2009 at 22:58

When you insured it, did you tell them about the irmscher bits ??? If you didn't they'll probably try and wriggle out of the whole deal .. Sad

However YOU can claim of HER insurance without any help from your own company, although you must tell them what you intend to do.

My insurance specificaly states that in the event of an incident the irmscher body kit parts would only be replaced by standard parts, they do this because they know they cannot get the irmscher bits .. Sad

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Risky Duckfeet

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Re: I've only had it one week
Reply #21 - 01. Jun 2009 at 07:14

@Andy B: Thanks, if worst comes to worst I'll probably look at buying the car back and keeping all the nice bits for next car.

@cam2502: Yeah, that will be the same car as you saw on ebay. I didn't expect to win it and bid quite a lot higher than I won it for. Amazingly the only part I've had to replace is the Anti-roll bar link. Everything else seems spot on. Touch wood.

@Entwood: Cheers mate. The bumper looks alright, quick drill and screw and should be ok. It's hard to tell if the drivers door is creased or not but might get away with that. Just the bump bar on the door and wing, which I don't know if they are Irmscher or standard. And the wing is totalled. The alloy had marks anyway so I might just try to clean it up myself.
The insurance know about the bodykit though and hopefully that is all ok. You never know, might be alright. I'd rather accept the minor damage and get the wing and paint repaired than have the car written off.

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Andy B Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 21988 Bury Lancs Gender: Drives: 1999 3.0 Elite auto/TDM	Re: I've only had it one week Reply #22 - 01. Jun 2009 at 08:27 Risky Duckfeet wrote on 01. Jun 2009 at 07:14: @Andy B: Thanks, if worst comes to worst I'll probably look at buying the car back ....... You already own it!
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Re: I've only had it one week
Reply #23 - 01. Jun 2009 at 09:57

Risky Duckfeet wrote on 31. May 2009 at 17:59:

My beautiful Irmscher MV6 was on the way to a camping trip on Friday night, with me my other half and our baby comfortably tucked up inside it. I stopped in Tesco's in Amersham to pick up some supplies and my girlfriend waited in the car with the baby. THANK GOD SHE DID.
I got a phone call while I was inside saying that I needed to go back to the car immediatly.
When I got out there there was a scrape from the back of the drivers door across the alloy all the way to the back of the bumper. The wing was stoved in at the back and the Irmscher bumper is cracked off it's mounting.
How gutted am I. The woman who did the damage using her antique Nova had tried to drive off and only stopped because my partner had got out and jumped in front of her car.
Then she said that if it was going to be less than £200 to sort out would she be able to pay in cash.
I'm guessing that it may be a little bit more expensive than that.
This is how I feel: Angry

It was a week almost to the minute after buying the car.
Gutted.

in my experience there is only one reason a driver wants to avoid the insurance, cos they aint got any

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mathewst Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1499 Split, Croatia Gender: Drives: omega 2.2i 16v	Re: I've only had it one week Reply #24 - 01. Jun 2009 at 11:02 Ten years ago I had something simillar happen. Had a crash before repainted the car completely and two days after it was finished someone on the car park hit bruised one side (probably a suv or a small truck) and run away New paint lasted for two whole days
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Re: I've only had it one week
Reply #25 - 01. Jun 2009 at 11:14

TheBoy wrote on 31. May 2009 at 19:43:

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A Vauxhall Nova you say?
I'll bet it had an exhaust pipe the size of France, and the driver was wearing only the best "Elizabeth Duke" hooped ear-rings.

Crucify the stupid bitch!

Seriously, if people can't make it around a car park without hitting anything then they don't deserve the privelege of being allowed to drive.

as an aside, did you know they are the biggest (in turnover and items sold) jewellery retailer in the uk?

Thats because people who buy jewellery there feel the need to wear so much of it! Grin

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I'd rather be scared to death than bored to death!!

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Vmax Senior Member Offline Missing life on two wheels :( Posts: 669 Waterlooville, Hampshire. Gender: Drives: JAGUAR XJ8 SPORT	Re: I've only had it one week Reply #26 - 01. Jun 2009 at 16:58 They wrote mine off with just a broken rear light and broken bumper and mountings bought it back for £100 though
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