As per the title - would you buy a Cat S repaired car? Assuming the repair was a good one & you were planning to keep the car until it was 7 or 8 yrs old?
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As per the title - would you buy a Cat S repaired car? Assuming the repair was a good one & you were planning to keep the car until it was 7 or 8 yrs old?
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For a relatively new car to be classed as category 'S', it needs to have sustained pretty severe structural damage, so I'd pretty much say no.
No major issue with buying a category 'N' write-off though, as a replacement door, wing, headlight (bolt on stuff) is all that's usually required....
Needs to be priced right of course...
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No, not a Cat S. I think of it as S for it got a real Smack and N for just a bit of a kNock.
A Cat N car wouldn't scare me as long as there was evidence of what happened and the repair but it'd always be worth less and harder to sell. However, I wouldn't want a Cat S as there would always be questions about how well the damage was repaired.
Thanks guys - pretty much what I was thinking
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Then again, if it had an engineers report, you were keeping it long term and it was relatively cheap, it may be worth a punt ! Certainly if it's a relatively rare car/performance car etc. - definately not if it's a run of the mill rep-mobile/family wagon like....
Modern crash repair techniques using OE parts from a reputable repair shop can give impressive/perfectly safe results.
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