General Help needed from modified owners

[jimbro1000]

I'm in the midst of an argument with my insurance company, I had a small accident back in April when my car slid (slowly and disgracefully) into another car on some oil/diesel. While the damage is relatively minor, this being a seicento the estimate for cost of repair has crept up to the point where they won't just pay out and are trying to write the car off and give me a pathetic sum of money in return for the very expensive.

The car in question is very heavily modified in the hardware department while retaining a nearly completely standard shell and bodywork.

I need to find other owners of modified seicentos who have paid above the basic market price for their car (ie book price for a stock seicento).

I'm not interested in opinions on the subject of insurance, I just need to provide the necessary evidence of the extra value carried by comparable cars.

So if you can help me out please send a PM so I can get in touch

Thanks

 

[Italian Coke Can]

When i had £550 worth of damage to the side of mine and was getting near the write-off stage i produced all the paperwork from shop4parts / powerflex / halfords showing how many new things are on there.

With a wad a paperwork the value increased and i kept the car with a healthy pay out.

 

[custard]

problem you have is you would need hard evidence on what people bought the cars for
eg ebay listings,autotrader etc
take it you had no agreed value?

 

[chaos]

When i had £550 worth of damage to the side of mine and was getting near the write-off stage i produced all the paperwork from shop4parts / powerflex / halfords showing how many new things are on there.

With a wad a paperwork the value increased and i kept the car with a healthy pay out.

That was what I was going to suggest - if you got receipts for engine work etc then I would show them to your insurance co. to substaniate the extra value of the car.

 

[jimbro1000]

I already have the receipts, thankfully all from the same place and on one piece of paper so not particularly hard to pin down but I was looking for a few more nails to hammer the point home.

The agreed value bit has become a point of consternation, I thought it had been sorted out when I first got the policy but the insurer says otherwise and even went so far as to state that they don't even offer an agreed value with this kind of policy which I know is a load of BS as the whole reason I went for it was because they did it.

The insurer has even backtracked a bit in the last few days and gone back to the engineer that examined it to see if there is any evidence of modifications (a bit obvious when you open the bonnet) and had they been taken into account when he valued the vehicle (the answer being an obvious no since I have only been offered base market value).

 

[99sei]

try posting your modifications on the car and whats been done ect then we might be of more help

 

[Brooky]

Thias the one with the lightened crank, coated pistons, Throttle bodies etc?

 

[jimbro1000]

Yes thats the one

16v block destressed, rebored and converted to 8v internals
lightened, balanced crankshaft
ultra light flywheel
rebalanced rods
custom forged pistons
custom front pulley (Fiat ones disintegrate)
custom cam profile
gas flowed head (stage 4)
enlarged lightweight inlet valves
lightweight exhaust valves
extractor exhaust header with tuned lengths
custom inlet manifold to accept hayabusa throttle bodies
engine management by DTA E38 ECU
uprated engine mounts
modified cam cover (screw on oil filler cap)
high capacity fuel pump
custom 6-speed gearbox conversion using maserati gears and honda lsd
custom driveshafts
upper and lower front strutbraces
custom suspension front and rear
punto GT front brakes

and thats just the major mechanical bits....

we've had it reading over 150bhp on a rolling road but it wouldn't idle properly and was undriveable on the road. The latest cam profile is more modest but usable on a daily basis and (traction allowing) just slower than our Chimaera 500 to 60mph (which runs at about 4.5 seconds from a standing start)

 

[RuiG]

I won't be much of a help relating the insurance issue, but damm that's an imense setup That's Seis must really fly :slayer:

 

[Brooky]

how light is 'ultra light'??

 

[jimbro1000]

I can't answer that last question off hand but if I was to do it again it would be a bit heavier - the throttle response at low revs is too sharp and very hard to balance. Great for track use but very tricky for road use.

 

[Slosei]

The quickest sei i have been in evan though it had a different cam from them said in at that time, excellent piece of kit the induction sound would take most to ecstasy lol or scare ya nan