Almost made me cry

Are you sure you wanna bypass the CSI nose? There is always one available on German ebay for £175. I got one from there a few weeks ago.

Well mate as long as the work can be done for the money no doubt the car will be better than before. Although I hadn't seen it before. What will being a CAT C do to its resale? Although £4.5k doesn't sound to bad looking at whats out there, although I would not sell mine for that

Good to hear that this isnt as bad as you thought. You will get it back in shape in notime. I think it will even look better

However, they have CAT C'd it

Hi Nick,

What does that actually mean? To what degree did they inspect the damage to ascertain the level of damage and therefore value? Is the valuation of £4500 as if it was in mint condition?

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To what degree did they inspect the damage to ascertain the level of damage and therefore value?

Cat C if the repair cost exceeds 50% of the value of the vehicle (over 3 years old)

The pics of the damage look horrible, but I have nothing but admiration for your determination to get her back on the road, and I hope you do, good luck.

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Got the car back today....the scale of the job is starting to give me the hebejeebies.

Look at that lovely rust!

Don't worry Nick, once you strip off the knackered bits and start looking at cleaning up and preparing for replacement parts to be fitted the job won't look anywhere near as bad. The rust is a nasty surprise and at least now you've got a chance to kill the rust and make the car better than before. Go for it and don't be discouraged, the end result will be worth it.

What a sorry sight, I feel for you fella but I'd take their £4.5K & get a new one, a bit of cash on top & your then into much newer & lower mileage 8s, unless that damage is repaired to the best standard I can't see you being happy with it;-)

Look at that lovely rust!

Never seen that much rust on a eight before. Any idea why it developed.

Is the key to avoid rust my extreme cleaning.

Hi Nick,

I'm choked for you 'cos it does look bad but how much of what looks damaged has actually got to be replaced? Is the rust just on the surface in the engine compartment or has it become corrosive?

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Steve - that would assume I am a sane person, which I clearly am not. In my view you have to be the wrong side of rational to own an 8. I can't bear to see it die even though it makes no financial sense at all.

NO need to examine my rational given that I have owned six differing examples, it just means that I can put my sentiments to one side when trying to do the right thing.

Good luck fella in all that you do.

Nick'

I need to tell you of a mishap that became a certain member of this Forum.

We had a Bmw meet in Somerset , on leaving the original meeting place we all climbed into our cars & headed for the exit, My car in front & was shunted from the rear, the aggresors car had a damaged radiator,/ bonnet/ front spoiler etc + small ancillaries the net cost to his Insurer was £16,000 Yeah you read it correctly £16,000,it turned out that this 5/10 mph impact nearly wrote the car Off, It looked like a couple of grand would sort it but what couldn't be seen was damaged inner wings /badly damaged suspension & steering components.And that was a low speed impact.

Assuming yours happened at higher speed one can only wonder???

Hi Nick.
Sorry to see your car like that!
As long as your ok.
There is quite a bit of stuff on ebay at the mo.
I just picked up a CSI spoiler for less then £70 so the bargains are there to be had.

Daz.

My 850 had more rust on it that the two 635's I had restored before !