Car Unnecessarily Written Off

[Slymeat]

The legislation changed late last year all cars that are written off are now automatically stat write offs. There is room in the law for a stat right off to be repaired and re registered although it can only be done by the person that owned the car at the time of the right off. Off interest if you were to accidently revese your car to far when putting your boat into salt water and the carpet gets wet that is also a stat write off.

Edited 14/02/12 10:20 PM by Slymeat

[1600dave]

Yeah a mate at vicroads was telling me that last year, its only in NSW he was saying, but they will be able to be repaired and rego'd in states that don't have this law or something along those lines.

[PookeyMaster]

You can't take his car to Victoria and repair it and then bring it back here. It has to all be approved by the RTA and repaired by an approved repairer. Otherwise, you'll run in to issues when you try and register it again.

I think the way the rules work now means that if the repairs cost more than $9000 (75% of insured value) then it gets written off and all write offs are now stat write offs. Other than filling in the application (from the link posted), he's basically sh*t out of luck.

[JET50T]

If your really confident that there is no extra underlying damage, ask for a cash settlement. that's if its not too late and its already been declared a stat. They would rather pay out $6000 then the some insured I know that. Myself having to quote jobs through "repair link" know that AAMI would be using all second hand or reconditioned parts unless unavailable in order to keep costs down. So I cant imagine a car just needing a radiator support being declared a stat.

[dule]

He tried to make a deal with them, even told them to just return the car and froget about the claim (which would not have costed them anything) but they said the car was already proccessed as a write off, it was too late. He's applying for an RTA approval to fix it. Only thing he can do now by the looks of it.

Thanks everyone for your help.