donkeh
Registered user
Hi,
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I recently had an accident in Europe and my insurance company immediately decided to write off the bike without any inspection of the bike.
They told me it was being written off as Category B (I assumed simply worst case since they hadn't seen it) and they made me an offer for the bike, which I accepted including keeping the bike.
I have since found out (via https://www.mycarcheck.com/) that the bike has been listed as category N.
I have a couple of questions about the whole process which I'm hoping you guys might have some answers for!
1. Is there a definitive way I can check the write off category?
2. Am I supposed to inform DVLA? This page (https://www.gov.uk/scrapped-and-written-off-vehicles/insurance-writeoffs) isn't exactly clear on what I should do, but almost suggests nothing needs to be done.
I have switched my insurance policy to another bike, so I have declared the written off bike as SORN for the time being.
Thanks for any advice you are able to share!
This part of the forum seemed the most appropriate - please move if it isn't.
I recently had an accident in Europe and my insurance company immediately decided to write off the bike without any inspection of the bike.
They told me it was being written off as Category B (I assumed simply worst case since they hadn't seen it) and they made me an offer for the bike, which I accepted including keeping the bike.
I have since found out (via https://www.mycarcheck.com/) that the bike has been listed as category N.
I have a couple of questions about the whole process which I'm hoping you guys might have some answers for!
1. Is there a definitive way I can check the write off category?
2. Am I supposed to inform DVLA? This page (https://www.gov.uk/scrapped-and-written-off-vehicles/insurance-writeoffs) isn't exactly clear on what I should do, but almost suggests nothing needs to be done.
I have switched my insurance policy to another bike, so I have declared the written off bike as SORN for the time being.
Thanks for any advice you are able to share!