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Thanks for all your advice so far I really DO appreciate it. I hope Hymie is right about the insurer, because that would take a lot of worry and pressure from me.
Regards asking the insurer for the wreck back, would this mean I then had to pay to have it moved to the scrapyard prior to stripping bits like the new battery for myself? Mind you the cost of buying it from them, might negate the benefits of what the parts I wanted were worth, i.e. might cost same to just buy them again. Damn...so many things going around my head right now! People with money do not know they are born, and what normal people have to go through on a daily basis.
Regarding 3rd party/fire/theft, I have asked my insurer for this in the past and was told they do not even do it.
Another point EDDIES1 raised about the value of older cars, is one that has bothered me for a year or two. The last time I replaced the full exhaust system (minus the manifold bit) I was extremely fortunate, because my friend knew of a backstreet garage run my a Peugeot Master Specialist acredited female mechanic. Normally a genuine 306 exhaust with the chrome tail bit, would cost approx £600 fitted, but she did it for less than £250 of which £15 was for labour!! Anyway I no longer can contact her and I was dreading having a new exhaust that cost more than the car was worth.
I am on the lookout for a new car now and one thing I have noticed, is that the same car with the same reg plate on the forecourt or website can go for more on Ebay; a couple of hundred more! I'd like another Peugeot 306 like I had but the next generation model has air conditioning, which are prone to going wrong and being expensive. Are there any tips to help avoid a car with duff air con?
I'll report back what happens with my insurer etc, so that it might help others in a similar unfortunate situation as myself. In the meantime though, more advice is very