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It is not only repair costs that are taken into account when an insurer decides to write off a car. Examples can include storage costs (ie cost of storing the car until parts, etc are obtained), hire car costs whilst the car is being repaired, etc.
It also depends what Category write off LV decided the car came under.
Obviously LV decided it was uneconomic to repair the car to an acceptable standard. LV paid out what you admit was a reasonable sum. They would also have expected the repairer the car was with, to dispose of the remains - either as scrap, parts or possibly as a repairable write off. For example, there are companies who specialise in dealing in write offs, so the remains could have been traded onto one of these. Or it could have been bought by someone to repair the car cheaply and to a low standard, to sell on.
The fact is that it would not have been LV who has repaired the car.
It could be the 'new owner' intends repairing the car themselves. Does the new owner know the car was written off?
Personally, I would not pass on the service history, in case the car may be sold on with a poor standard of repairs and the history disguised (ie sold as a non-write off).
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