What Happens When The Police Impound Your Car?

[Elton]

I'd hazard a guess that his personal wealth exceeds most UK insurance payouts, mind you.

[Chris Goddard]

I'd hazard a guess that his personal wealth exceeds most UK insurance payouts, mind you.

 

So how much of a payout for a DEAD relative???

[Elton]

So how much of a payout for a DEAD relative???

 

I don't know what the going rate is in the courts, Chris. What I was saying is that he can, no doubt, afford whatever that going rate is. Nothing more.

[chesters1]

They won't crush it, that fate is for cars that are essentially worthless bangers. I would be furious to find out about such wanton waste.

no such thing as worthless bangers if they are beyond repair they are doners

far less depreciation in a banger than a brand new car

[Steve Walker]

So how much of a payout for a DEAD relative???

 

Flippant answer is that to self-insure, you have to lodge £500,000 with the Accountant General of the Supreme Court.

 

Was he accused of driving without insurance? I thought he'd committed a licence offence. If he has insurance, even if he has lied about his licence status, third parties are covered. The insurance company is not allowed to wriggle out of that obligation, though they are quite entitled to invalidate his policy with respect to any claims he makes on it.

[Steve Walker]

no such thing as worthless bangers if they are beyond repair they are doners

far less depreciation in a banger than a brand new car

 

Well, yes, but you have to look in terms of what it's worth net to the government once their overheads have been factored in. Bureaucracy doesn't come cheap, you know, there's all those pencils to buy.

 

They should really send anything that's given up for crushing to the scrappy, for whatever can be recycled to be removed.

 

How about this; brand new Dodge Viper, brought over here for research and development by an engine manufacturer. Still a perfectly good car when they'd finished with it, but the government gave no option to reuse it. Criminally wasteful, if you ask me:

 

"The reason for this one was that it was bought into the country not having paid the import duty. The options were to return it to America or destroy. the baling was also witnessed by a uniformed officer from customs and excise. If they would have asked i would have paid the duty myself."

 

[Worms]

 

What a waste!

 

As an aside, that looks like a two valve per cylinder pushrod engine (admittedly a V10). If that's what they put in the sports cars what do they put in saloons? cast iron side valve engines? Who was the engine manufacturer doing the R&D? Qualcast?

[Elton]

Steve,

 

That's criminal (even though it is American).

[corydoras]

What a waste!

 

As an aside, that looks like a two valve per cylinder pushrod engine (admittedly a V10). If that's what they put in the sports cars what do they put in saloons? cast iron side valve engines? Who was the engine manufacturer doing the R&D? Qualcast?

Dodge Viper ≠ 'sports car', it doesn't even come close. In the crusher was the best place for it.

 

Having said that I wouldn't say no to one of those, as long as I can find a sponsor to keep me in petrol.

Edited February 10, 2009 by corydoras

[jeepster]

As our American friends are so keen on saying 'There ain't no substitute for cubic inches' One day they'll realise that actually there are