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Written Off Damaged Car - How to scrap

  • 10-03-2009 9:51pm
    #1
    mass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭


    Just two days after buying a lovely '07 car, vandals burnt it out and left me more or less with a shell. The insurance company are paying, but they want nothing of the wrecked car and told me to organise scrapping it myself.

    The garage that currently has it are offering me 300 euros for the wreck, but they say I must organise the Vehicle Registration cert write-off myself. I can't see any provision for this. Don't I have to 'transfer ownership' to the garage owner even if he's buying the wreck? I cant see how he can take it off me, and me organise a write off??


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  • #2
    craichoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭craichoe


    mass wrote: »
    Just two days after buying a lovely '07 car, vandals burnt it out and left me more or less with a shell. The insurance company are paying, but they want nothing of the wrecked car and told me to organise scrapping it myself.

    The garage that currently has it are offering me 300 euros for the wreck, but they say I must organise the Vehicle Registration cert write-off myself. I can't see any provision for this. Don't I have to 'transfer ownership' to the garage owner even if he's buying the wreck? I cant see how he can take it off me, and me organise a write off??

    Once its 'written off' it becomes the property of the insurance company as their effectively paying you for it.

    Not really your problem what happens to it anymore imo.


  • #3
    ottostreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    mass wrote: »
    Just two days after buying a lovely '07 car, vandals burnt it out and left me more or less with a shell. The insurance company are paying, but they want nothing of the wrecked car and told me to organise scrapping it myself.

    The garage that currently has it are offering me 300 euros for the wreck, but they say I must organise the Vehicle Registration cert write-off myself. I can't see any provision for this. Don't I have to 'transfer ownership' to the garage owner even if he's buying the wreck? I cant see how he can take it off me, and me organise a write off??

    Hard luck man.. sorry to hear it. One way you could is just not tax it, and when the letter comes, declare it scrapped? Bit of a long-winded way of going about it though


  • #4
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,686 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    There is a section on the registration cert for declaring scrapped. I think you need an end of life cert from a registered company to do that though. I would ring one of these companies, get them to take it away and pay them if necessary. At least then if it turns up on a few speed cameras in a few months, its not your problem. If you just pass it on to a garage, anything could happen. A Very dodgy garage might swap your car identity to a stolen model. Really though, I think the insurance company are chancing their arm. Its their car now and they should pay any costs involved with it.


  • #5
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭positron


    mass, are you a doctor? If you are, I think I read the story in the local newspaper here. Sorry to hear it! If its you, I hope those scumbags who did this will die in shame when they find themselves in front of you one night looking for urgent medical attention!


  • #6
    mass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭mass


    positron wrote: »
    mass, are you a doctor? If you are, I think I read the story in the local newspaper here. Sorry to hear it! If its you, I hope those scumbags who did this will die in shame when they find themselves in front of you one night looking for urgent medical attention!

    You got the right car! It was a terrible experience.

    Just to answer other posts: I still own the car. There is no provision on the license certificate to scrap since '07 as you are supposed to bring it to an appropriately permitted or licensed authorised treatment facility (ATF). The insurance company instructed me to scrap it myself. However the garage holding it will give me 300 to keep it 'as is' in wreck condition. So what do I do with the cert under these circumstances?


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  • #7
    craichoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭craichoe


    mass wrote: »
    You got the right car! It was a terrible experience.

    Just to answer other posts: I still own the car. There is no provision on the license certificate to scrap since '07 as you are supposed to bring it to an appropriately permitted or licensed authorised treatment facility (ATF). The insurance company instructed me to scrap it myself. However the garage holding it will give me 300 to keep it 'as is' in wreck condition. So what do I do with the cert under these circumstances?

    Get them to sign the change of ownership section and send it off to Shannon yourself, I am pretty damn sure once a vehicle is written off its the property of the insurance company, might want to get it in writing from them.


  • #8
    mass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭mass


    craichoe wrote: »
    I am pretty damn sure once a vehicle is written off its the property of the insurance company, might want to get it in writing from them.

    They did. They wrote: "..as your vehicle is declared a total loss, the insurer AIG do not retain the salvage of your vehicle and any settlement will be on the basis that the salvage remains your property."


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