[Murph]

Hiya all,

Just doing an insurance excersise, if i had to buy my car again today, whaddya all think it'd be worth? Kinda want to make sure i get a figure thats not way out there.. lol
Thanks,
Murph

[V8RMBL]

umm

VL
Turbo
Manual
newish LSD
Stereo
bout 160rwkw
Street commodore feature car


Yeah.. 12 - 16 K would be the ball park


but after the mods you are suggesting to go into it... maybe push that to 17/18K

[Prewer]

I was thinking the same thing as Goughy, has to be around the 13/15 K mark for sure

[PSI086]

How do you mean value it exactly Murph? If you were to buy and build it like you have Goughy and Prewer's figures would be close but if you were to buy it as I'd have to say around the 8k mark maybe. Look in the Melbourne Tradingpost and you'll get a good idea what similar cars are going for.

For example mine owes me close to 25k I reacon but I'd say I'll be lucky to get 16k for it.

This post has been edited by PSI086: 29 November 2005 - 03:08 PM

[Asho]

I was thinking about 10 ish

[Murph]

PSI086, on Nov 29 2005, 04:06 PM, said:

How do you mean value it exactly Murph? If you were to buy and build it like you have Goughy and Prewer's figures would be close but if you were to buy it as I'd have to say around the 8k mark maybe. Look in the Melbourne Tradingpost and you'll get a good idea what similar cars are going for.

For example mine owes me close to 25k I reacon but I'd say I'll be lucky to get 16k for it.

Yeah, replacement value to buy as a complete carsorta thing... my guess was 8 - 9 ish

[Asho]

I'll give you 8 for it mate

[SSHatch]

Best bet is to ring the guys at Shannons and see what they say!!

The value as well as insure cars and take all your modifications into account when giving you a figure!!
If you can manage to talk to Brett Pitfield himself then you wont go far wrong as he is a real car enthusiast himself and understands that cars can have a different value to different people.
Mine for example is insured for $20,000 when market value and average going rates in the trading post etc put it more like $10,000.

Like you said, think of the price it would cost you to "replace" what you have now, not buy something similar!

[Howie-VL]

it's a hard one to say with ur Car Murf... it wouldn't be valued as much as what you would sell it for...

I rekon it would be valued at about 8 - 9. But would go for a solid 12.

[Murph]

Yeah, it's a tricky one! I did ring shannon's when i got the car, they weren't in the slightest interested, just fobbed me off, so not real keen to go thru them. Looks like this will need some more research! Thanks 4 ya help so far though guys

[SSHatch]

When was it that you rang??
They have had a big shake up over the last couple of years and actually insure a much bigger variety of cars than ever.
They used to be only interested in old skool or heavily modified cars.
They will now insure most things that are a little bit different from the norm. Just cause the burned you once, dont let that stop ya from giving them a second chance! If they let you down again then fair enough but I dont reckon they will!!

This post has been edited by SSHatch: 29 November 2005 - 07:23 PM

[Murph]

Ah ok... kewl, 'twas about 3 yr ago i guess.... will give 'em a burl, thanks PJ!

[PSI086]

I had the same problem with them a few years back because it wasn't a HDT, HSV or a show car

[Howie-VL]

Well they insured my friends FTO which is not modified and is obviously not a real old car..

So you would think they would hafta insure a older, more modified car such as yours..

[SATAN]

they was happy to insure mine and it is nowwhere as cool as yours murf..