As some of you will know, I recently wrote off my mint (44k) Blue Valver. I only owned her for a couple of months and paid £3.4k due to the low millage and full Renault service history. The insurance company have just sent me a letter saying that the Inspector has valued the car @ £1900. You can imagine my dismay, so i phoned up the inspector and after asking him if hed had a recent eye test I proceeded to explain that i could have sold the car quite easily before the accident for the same value for what i paid, due to its mint condition and its hot hatch status. (After all i got £3k for my old 1.4rt a few weeks prior and that had 70k on the clock.
The inspector was very apologetic but said that glasss The price guide they use actually rates the valver @ £1600 and he had added £300 because of the mint condition.
However once i mentioned that i was a member of the cliosport club and that many of the members have insurance with L&V. He became most helpfull and sugested i send him some current prices of Valvers for sale of the same condition and another guide Parkers for example. I have already run a search on Autotrader and this confirms my thoughts that low millage valvers like mine fetch around the 3k mark. If anyone can offer any assistance then i would appreciate it as this will no doupt help all valver owners in the long run dealing with L&V Insurance. A letter from the Chairman would probably sway the decision (if your listening Jas!
) Regards
Scribbler
