Its very scary to see how little damage has to be done now days for them to look at writing them off.
Its sucks mate and I really hope you can keep the XR. They are a beautiful car.
Seeing this most certainly doesnt make sleep any easier when there is one in the driveway.

Well it turns out now I have a spare XR bonnet available if you need it.
I just bought an entire car to get a spare XR front!

I have a full front bar and headlights for sale if your keen. $500 and its all yours. =)

Woo Hoo!

Nice to read that it is going to be repaired! That's part of the reason I have a reasonable figure for the agreed value on my EB Ghia. Will take a lot of damage to "write it off" so to speak.

Having said that, a lot of places will just write a car of this age off because they can't be bothered chasing a few parts to fix it, even tho it's rather fixable & not all that expensive in comparison to replacing it with another good one.

I hope you are satisfied with the repair job done!

Cheers

ToranaGuy

AAMI are not that bad they gave me $9600.00 for my ef mont after i was in the tunnel in Melbourne and had a car slam into the back of me at 80ks sad to see the car go but i thought the price that i got was fair now i drive a v8Lain and still had money to spare

What a spin out that my brother's father inlaws EF had the exact same hit 2 weeks ago but more bumper damage. His quote come to $3500.00 and surprised it didn't take much to cause that much damage.

Are you going through preferred repairer or insurance is taking care of it?

Make sure they put your battery on a charger too, I had my car in the panel shop late last year, they ended up having the car for a month & stuffed the battery! They wouldn't replace it either.

Cheers

ToranaGuy

In my experience, giving the repairer parts was nothing but a nightmare! The door got used, the front guard ended up on their apprentices car & not mine, other parts I can't be sure what happened with them. In regards to the guard, this I know for a fact (vin number sticker!) but won't name the place, and I didn't get compensated for the parts I supplied, from either the workshop or my insurance company. At trade prices it was about $400 of bits I supplied too. I guess at least I don't have those "spares" hanging around my place cluttering it up more than it already is.

Never again will I do that, they can spend their time hunting & collecting for bits & send the insurance the bill, unless I sell them the bits & they then on-charge the insurance.

I hope you have a much better experience with that than I did!

Cheers

ToranaGuy

Sounds like all the bodgey's from roof insulation have stared up panel shops! mate! rip AAMI a new one, they boast they have lifetime guarantee on repairs and it was s**t when you got it! That sux mate hope you get it sorted!

Ea to Ed are different mate. Any base will fit from any Ef and el all are the same through the models.

If u want better lights u should give hid's a go , I have 6000k and they are fantastic. A kit only costs
$200 and they are perfect for the xr6 headlight cos it has the projector.

The base of my seat is broken Also. There are cap head screws holding the base to the rails and they have been ripped out , so u will need a new base it will have to be a xr6 base otherwise the patterns will be different and look odd lol

I'd say that's what's wrong with your seat if the base is wobbly