You had that four weeks here, in five weeks.

Who can make a decision to write it up or then after that point,

it's up to insurance to make a decision what to carry.

And if they say write off, from the day they say write off the car,

they don't pay for seven days longer for the car for you and then after that,

that bill stops because so sooner they decide it,

better for them if they end up paying for it.

They're not really going to issue that cheque because then it's...

It's a good thing if you can get your hands on that report as well

because sometimes with mine, they didn't want to give the report to me.

I had to ask four or five times but they took it away, examined it and everything

and then it took me four times to ask them for the engineer's report.

They just said, oh, they think something like that.

The guy reads it and explains it. I said, but can you send it to me?

I don't know. But if you can get that report, then if it...

I don't know. Maybe not. I mean, they paid for it.

They did make it.

But if they decide to write it off and you can buy it back cheaply,

it would be useful to see what the main dealers said about it.

Yeah, but if it's just that ECU is £1500, but if you can buy the car back,

you don't have to put a new one from the main dealer.

If you want to just patch it up, even if you want to sell it on.

But it would be interesting. Like you said, there's bits and bobs, other things.

It would be really useful for you to have that list, you know,

before even if you get the car back.

And buy it from them or whatever as a write-off.

The other thing is why you have the car.

Mechanically, it's okay. Bodywork is okay.

So for electronics...

Everything is fine.

They've got a guy, but I forgot his name, Adrian or something.

The guys who do these vans, they've got this English guy.

He came to fix the key on the Mercedes, the ignition thing.

He was so knowledgeable and I was really impressed with him.

And he just works on electronics on cars and vans.

So if you have a good auto electrician,

but it would be...

Even the scrub of the car is so complicated.

Yeah, the pieces are worth a lot.

But is it even better if you can put it on the road?

You can drive it.

Because it's not about structural damage.

If it's electronics on it.

The thing is when they give you the car,

it's like for...

I mean, obviously not for gearbox or engine,

but any fault.

Cause from that what they fix.

I mean, any electric fault.

There is guarantee not just for one year,

while you have the car.

As soon as you sell the car, then it's...

Yeah, but if it's write-off, that's finished anyway.

If they give it to you, yeah.

The other thing they're considering,

because that happened once.

If they saw this thing,

and other things coming up,

and the risk of how much...

So it's 50-50 if they write-off or not.

If they decide to...

If they don't write it off, you're protected.

From your point of view,

you're protected by the warranty anyway.

If they do write it off,

just try and get that report.

Yeah.

And then show it to...

It's definitely when they write it off,

you've got a right to buy it from them.

I think so, yeah.

I think you have a right, definitely.

It's better for them anyway,

because they have to pay auction fees,

and it's just finished for them.

They'll just deliver it to you, and that's it.

Yeah.

That's what they did with mine.

Delivered it here.

Because I didn't have courtesy car,

once they make a decision to being write-off,

it seems it's not their

repair center responsibility anymore.

So they might demand to return the car at that point.

Usually, they give like seven days.

If they decide it's write-off,

they might phone you this afternoon and say...

Should I check?

It wasn't a check.

They just made me a bank transfer.

Like next day.

Next day, I think.

So once they decide...

They settle very quickly.

And they give seven days.

Usually, the price...

You can sometimes negotiate a bit.

In my case, he said,

okay, we offer you that much,

and it was more than I was expecting.

He said, I know sometimes people are not that happy with it,

but if you want, you can challenge it,

but you need to...

Maybe different companies work in different ways,

but he said you can send...

Go on AutoTrader, find exactly the model and mileage,

any mileage not higher,

and send us two...

If there's two examples where it's higher,

we'll give you the average of the two,

which is higher.

But I couldn't find anything higher priced than that for mine.

So...

I mean, they were generous.

But because I had that company was managing...

No, no, no.

Well, it's based on the cost of replacing it exactly as it is,

to buy it, not to sell it.

But my...

Because it's a different case,

because I was the victim of the accident.

So I had that company working for me,

so I think they challenged the price first,

and they got me the maximum.

They made me...