taking the mick ?
 

Rang the salvage yard holding my bike the day after the crash , they told me the bike had heavy front end/steering damage , heavy fairing damage , damaged silencer , damaged headlamps and damaged sidestand .

This morning i recieved a notice of intention to sell the bike if i didnt pay the salvage and storage fee,s :mad: All this after i had rang them 3 times and told them the insurance company would sort everything , So today i got the wife to drive me over to actually look at the bike . I think we can safely say it,s not quite as bad as they,ve made it out to be :mad: The worst damage other than the fairing , is the left hand Termi is smashed and one broken rear indicator

I would say get your insurance assessor to look at it sharpish. Tell the breakers that they have no claim of ownership so any attempt to sell it will result in legal action against them. Tell them that they already misrepresented the damage and that you've go pictures to prove it.

I'm don't have any experience of this so somebody with legal experience might be along in a minute.

Screwy, doesn't this work in your favour?
If the salvage co is calling it a write-off, you get paid out by the insurance company and then buy it back off them for a cheap price? Or am I missing something?

Surely you have the V5, so it is still your property, so how could they sell it?

how did it end up at the salvage yard ?
looks like you could ride it to me.
any way yes contact your insurer and tell them

Cant really see its the salvage yards job to decide , The only reason i put a claim in was due to the description the yard gave me of the damage , having now seen the bike i would have fixed it myself in all honesty and saved myself the grief of dealing with the insurance company . As it is the salvage fee,s now stand at nearly £400 ,where as the day after the accident when i rang to arrange pick up it was nearer £200 .

Can you get it home then? discuss a salvage price and get it home before the charges double again, and again, and again, and... you get the idea

offer them £200 and walk away.
if they don't go for that pay the £400 but ad that you will be making measures to recover that money as they made a fraudulent description of the bike

On the night of the accident i was rushed of to hospital with a suspected punctured lung , the police had the bike recovered . ive contacted the insurance company and they instructed me to tell the salvage yard that they will pick it up ,hence me going across this afternoon to tell them in person and also look at the bike . The insurance company where very suprised that they where threatening to sell seeing as the have'nt had the bike a week yet .

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My thoughts exactly:flame:

Sounds to me as though they have a buyer lined up for your bike. I've heard before of cars and bikes being classed as right offs and sold when they actually have very little damage.

This shouldn't surprise me really. I think there is something seriously dodgy going on with a lot of these 'storage' facilities for crashed vehicles. One local to me charges 15 quid a day for storage and it seems that pretty much any vehicle involved in a prang in the Oxford area gets instructed by the police on the scene to be collected by this company, to the extent that a friend of mine had her car collected after an accident when it wasn't even in the way. She ended up in hospital for a number of days and was unable to do anything about the rapidly growing bill.

I wonder if the police xmas ball fund gets well supported by said company......?

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Not to sure if it benefits the xmass ball fund :lol: personally i think its just a case of immediate clearing of the scene so the police dont end up hanging around for 2 hours waiting for someone to turn up , unfortunately the recovery people see it as a licence to print money , my bill works out at £145 for recovery , £85 because they had to crane it (load of b*ll*cks , it was moved to the side of the road by a member of the public with no trouble) and their charging £14.50 a day storage all plus VAT :mad:

Tossers.:flame:

:saint:They'll say the crane was involved because of 'Health and Safety':saint:

:mad::mad::mad: utter *******s. you need legal advice. just out to screw you , take care.:mad::mad::mad::mad:

Quick update : After a relaxing holiday i get back to find that the bike is still at the recovery yard , a quick call to the insurance company confirms my worse fear , uneconomical to repair so a write off .

I have to wonder if what must by now amount to nearly £600 salvage and storage fee,s have something to do with that :flame:

Just have to see what they offer and maybe consider buying the bike back if its offered cheap enough .



Paul

:saint:Best of luck:saint: