Bumped my Falcon :(

[19jacobob93]

Yep it would be a write off without doubt. Even though I have personally insured it for $4,000 which is how much I paid for it a few years ago. It still only costs me $43 a month to insure it at $4k so it will stay that way haha It would be worth $1-2k now or about $500-1000 with the damage

Wouldn't be an insurance job but I might have to ring my uncle who is an absolute wizard with body work and spraying and spent half his life bringing back absolute wrecks from the dead!

 

[antiqueshell]

Nice Falcon, sorry for your bad luck there.
If you want it to be done right you need to
get a professional with good credentials and
get customer referrals too!

That Holden Caprice is interesting, is that
a sister car to the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
from the mid-late 90s?

 

[Shannow]

antiqueshell...

here's the thread when I got it
really 4 years ago....

It's getting 25W50 in it next OCI...just because.

 

[hpb]

If your uncle is a good 'beater and is willing to tackle it, I say go for it! If you've got another car you can use, he can take his time and do a really top notch job.

I can't believe it costs you 500 bucks a year to insure the Falc, that's nuts! The one benefit of being 40 I guess, insurance costs have dropped considerably...I pay only about an extra $100 more than you do to fully cover my $40,000 Mazda. But when I was in my 20's, I never insured my motorbikes, they were wanting 2 grand to cover me back then, no way could I afford that! Luckily, never had a crash...

Did the HiLux tray score any damage from this?

 

[19jacobob93]

I will have a word with him about it

And $500 a year is amazing!
Back in the UK I tried getting insured on a 1.0 litre Citroen Saxo worth £400 and it would have cost me way over £4,000 ($7,000) a year. That's the going rate if you're young and some companies quoted me upwards of £13,000!!! This is a place where the going wage was £6 an hour and fuel costs £1.40 ($2.60) per litre! I wasn't allowed to be insured on my mum's Astra because it had a 1.6 engine that was 'too big'! It was impossible to drive over there.
Yet I move over here, get a big 4 litre sedan, insure it for $4,000 and it costs me $500 (£270) a year to insure, I'm on $25 an hour doing the same job and fuel is a third of the price! Oh the freedoms over here, Aussies have no idea how lucky they are! And now I'm a lucky one too!

Also no there wasn't much damage to the tray at all, only it spun the ute out by about 5 metres!

 

[19jacobob93]

May I add I backed into the Hilux, not into my car in the Hilux like it says in the original post. No idea why I put that haha must have got my words mixed up or been in shock!