****! Rear Ended Again! :(

Blimey Killian, I must have missed the fact your son was in the car. The good thing being that if the car seat is in properly and the wee fella is strapped in tight, there is a 99% chance he'll be 100% fine, but just to be on the safe side, I ditto what the others said. No doctor can say you are over-reacting when it comes to your kids and I dare them to argue!

Mike

The car still drives with a slight vibration felt through it but we'll see what is the cause soon enough.
My neck is still feckin sore though which is more of an annoyance - I'll head to the doc this evening.

I rang the AA (my insurance broker) yesterday and told them. The insurance company then appointed a solicitor to handle it all for me. He is the same solicitor who dealt with last year's rear ending and also when I had an incident last January in my wife's car (guy pulled out of a junction in front of me and stopped!!!). Anyhow, the solicitor started slagging me - possibly not a good sign personally! I'll soon get a bad reputation!

Always a bad sign to be on first name terms with a solicitor that doesn't handle your conveyancing!

kbannon-sig wrote: 1997 E39 523i Compact

Nice to see that your sense of humour wasn't hurt! 

Kb hope your prob is being sorted  i now have had 1  a kind young person has just reversed in to front of car .

Luckily for him he only got black plastic strip on bumper and seemed to be really thankfully i did not thump him for people who have met me or seen a pic of me will understand why he was thankfull.

 

Update: My insurance appointed solicitor eventually called me back today. Apparently the assessor has put a figure of 4,600-4,800 on the value of the car and the repairwork is 4,900approx. They want to go for an economic write off. I asked the solicitor to get them to avoid the write off declaration if they can.

I get to keep the car apparently.
The damage consists of:
* bootlid
* bumper
* bumper trim & boot mouth trim
* rear body plate
* floorpan dented
* right rear chassis leg dented

kbannon wrote: My solicitor is just off the phone to me. Apparently the valuation is based on a salvage amount of �800 so they are actually offering me under 4K. This means that to get my car fixed will end up costing me money. I have asked him to appeal the amount they are giving and have pointed him towards various prices online (including one for �10.5K!). Most of those online are of a lower spec than mine! Don't know whether to or

 

Insurance company's will always 'lowball' to start with.

kbannon wrote: Apparently the assessor has put a figure of 4,600-4,800 on the value of the car and the repairwork is 4,900approx.

Killian, that's not too bad a price in todays market.  I know it sounds severe though. 

Mine is a similar age, although miles on mine are probably a lot higher than yours.  I advertized mine on carzone for ages recently and had progressively dropped the price to euro3.8k without even getting a call (if you ignore the "what is your lowest price" calls and txt's from people that haven't even asked a question about the car).  Eventually I just took it off the web, looking to see if I can shift one of the others as my sisters e46 328i Touring is gathering dust waiting for me to buy it.

I'd take the money, keep the car and break it.  With the spec on yours there is a lot of value to extract from just the big bits on breaking it.

That though had crossed my mind John