Category N cars

[CatmanV2]

What's the groupthink on these. Percentage down on retail?

TIA
C

 

[allandwf]

Non structural, along the lines of old cat D.?They were circa less 25%, but it was very dependent on what it was.

 

[conaero]

Depends upon the quality of repair. If its done right, then 15% ish less, if done poorly, walk away.

 

[Wack61]

Ideally you need to see the before pictures because selling them on without evidence of how badly they were damaged makes it hard .

My B Class is a cat C , I was intending to PX it against the mustang but as their offer dropped 50% when I told them I decided against it

I've had it 4 years now and other than servicing I haven't spent a penny on it so it's been a cheap car

 

[CatmanV2]

Ta all

C

 

[zagatoes30]

15-20% maybe a tad less if you can prove the damage was small and the repair was good. The biggest issue is selling it on, you have to convince people to buy it and as the car depreciates the margin becomes less so why would you. If your going to buy a car for putting on lots of miles over a few years it hardly matters but if you ever need to sell on quickly you might struggle.

 

[Scaf]

This is not a straight forward question and surely the answer has to be very dependent on the vehicle and the value of the vehicle when it was categorised.
So an 80k car written of as CAT N would have taken one **** of a shunt, whereas a 6k car might only have had light panel damage.
So it stand around reason one must take a much larger % knock on resale than the other.

 

[Wanderer]

Reckon it's worth taking on a 'damaged repairable' as they used to be called if it's a rare/exotic whatever and you intend to keep for life?

 

[allandwf]

This is not a straight forward question and surely the answer has to be very dependent on the vehicle and the value of the vehicle when it was categorised.
So an 80k car written of as CAT N would have taken one **** of a shunt, whereas a 6k car might only have had light panel damage.
So it stand around reason one must take a much larger % knock on resale than the other.

Also not so straight forward an answer, equivalent hire car costs etc. also come into play which can build substantially if it's an 80k car, so doesn't really stand to reason its taken a harder knock.