Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:42:11 -0700
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From: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: van wrecked; documenting selling prices
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Glad are are ok Ed.
Sorry to hear of the accident. In light of your recent post....
Check the archives using
Matt Drew <T3Vanagon@gmail.com
either name and/or email should yield a thread discussing insurance
issues (accident and resulting negotiations)
Sorry can't recall, but there was a post by a member (Mark in AZ?)
that had some salient points and good info. Regardless, should be some
good info there.
Best,
Neil.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Ed Duntz<eduntz@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Last Friday on the way to a VW camping event, another driver was making a turn, swung over into my lane, and crashed into me. It was clearly her fault, and her insurance company (Geico) is taking responsibility, but now the work has to start on my part to show what my van was worth. They have declared it a total loss, saying that the damage is more than $7,000. Our vehicles colided on the driver's sides. The damage to my van is from just outboard of the headlight, to the wheel arch, driver's door, lower part of the middle panel under the camper inlets, and both driver side wheels, as well as likely suspension damage on the driver's side.
>
> I have started to look online at various sites to document to the insurance company what similar vehicles sell for. So far, I'm looking at or will look at The Samba, eBay completed listings, GoWesty, Poptop Heaven, JDB enterprises, cars.com, autotrader.com.
>
> My van was a 1985 Vanagon Westfalia, that Hershey brown experior with the usual brown interior. The interior was in very good condition, the body was very good except for a few rust spots (but very litttle noticeable seam rust), and a different color brown slider and passenger door. The skylight was new, the tent was in escellent shape.
>
> If anyone has any leads on a replacement similar to mine, or if you have recently documented any similar vans for insurance/valuation reasons, I'd appreciate some input. I'm about to call the adjuster back, who has some numbers for me.
>
> Thanks,
> Ed Duntz in CT
>
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