medicus said:Dream911 said:medicus said:i recently bought a flood damaged 997 turbo PDK (60 plate)it suffered water ingress up to the seat bases, and was given a cat B status, because of the risk of safety wiring such as air bags, pre tensioners etc failing due to rusting.
the car was immaculate pre flood with very low milage, i bought it for £40k under its book price........ it only cost £5k to replace 2 ECU'S seats, carpets, and loom various other small bits....then an SVA test to check the cars "repair" then a normal MOT and a re issued V5.
Have the rules changed :?: ....I thought CAT B cars were so badly damaged they could only be broken for spares? Thougt the idea was to remove CAT B damaged cars from ever reappearing on public roads.
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there has never been rules so to speak the categories are just for Insurance purposes and are guidelines only, you can fix/repair/or even build your own car from scratch (kit cars etc) they just have to be inspected as i mentioned (FULL SVA test)
so any cat can be put back on the road. i have had a few cat D cars, 2 cat C and 1 cat B
the cat B car has a marker applied to the V5C that cannot be removed.
i know a lot of people don't know this, and think they must be for spares only, but thats not true.
That's really interesting and I know C and D status was set by the Insurance companies...I guess I figured A and B was done by the police or some form of authority but I`ve never really given it much thought....fair point on the kit cars.
There was a 993 turbo S at 9meister a year or so back that was being broken for spares and sold of and I thought this was because it was classed as Cat B......Maybe the cat status wasn't the reason it was being sold off in parts. :?: