Bought insurance write-off...

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Fri 5 Jan 2001 14:41
Bought insurance write-off... - Nick
I'll save the frustrating details for another time, but I have had the misfortune to buy an insurance write-off. A long story has ended rather predictably with my having a county court judgement against the vendor, but little chance of getting my money.

During the course of the above proceedings, however, I was told that the car has actually been repaired to a very high standard and could be removed from the insurance write-off database... if only I knew how.

Is there a mechanism that allows suitably repaired write-offs to be removed from the database? and if so, is it likely to be worth my while and how should I go about doing it?
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Fri 5 Jan 2001 17:43
RE: Bought insurance write-off... - Honest John
Dear Nick,

Yes. Take the car either to Autolign or Popplewells and pay two hundred to three hunderd for a full body, subframe and suspension alignment check. You then used the alignment report to have the car removed from the insurance damage write off register to the repaired register, but you can't get it off the register altogether and anyone using HPI or Equifax will find it had been damaged and repaired. The phone numbers are in one of my books, but I'm writing this from Holland so don't have immediate access.
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