Diff between a stat write off and repairable write off

MrStompy · Post by **MrStompy** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:02 am

Hello

I have been checking out the the Fowles website looking at the wrecked bikes.

What sort of guidelines do they have to determine what is a "statutory write off" and a "repairable write off"?

It appears to me (from the photos) that its just a guess.
some bikes look absotlutely totalled and they reckon its repairable yet others look not as bad and they are Statutory write offs.

I know a stat write off is unregisterable but do you go through hell to re-register a repairable write off?

les2010 · Post by **les2010** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:02 am

Not in Vic, a repairable writeoff can be done easily, you just need to repair it, duh !!, like you didn't know that, then get an engineers report stating the repairs are to satisactory standards, you get a viv number and they inspect it at the rego department and re-register it for you. You have to remember too that a bike can be written off with only fairing damage if the damage to the fairings is extensive, have you seen the price of that shit, what's the average price to buy new fairings ? OEM parts would be too expensive and replicas are reasonably priced, if i'm being quoted correctly my ZXR has around $1500 of glass if I buy replica fairings for it, if I damage the can that's $900 for OEM, maybe foot controls on 1 side at least another $1000, if I had that amount of damage it would add up to $3400, the value of a good to excellent ZXR today is about $5000 to $5500, the insurance company would just write it off as a statutory writeoff and be done with it, i've seen bikes you could turn the key and ride the thing for the next 20 years that are statutory writeoffs, I think your right and they guess, dickheads that they are. A repairable writeoff, well that depends on your agreement with the insurance company, I have heard that you can agree to write the bike off but you receive a percentage of the value the bike was insured for, if sources are correct insurance companies then sell the bike and take a kickback from the sale but the bike is re-registerable, correct me anyone if i'm wrong on any point, i'm not smart enough to know everything, i'm not a teenager anymore and have lost that ability.
Les

photomike666 · Post by **photomike666** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:53 am

I always thought a "stat" write off was where there was some form of frame damage; thus to replace the frame would (on paper) be building another bike.

Glen · Post by **Glen** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:55 am

About 20km/h

Post by **dave#3** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:56 am

In NSW the difference is as follows:

Statutory write-offs: vehicles which have been badly structurally damaged, or those that have been extensively stripped and their VINs have been cancelled.

Repairable write-offs: vehicles that are written-off (for structural or economic reasons) but which are able to be repaired by licensed vehicle repairers in the course of their normal business operations.

To clasify as a Statutory write-off, the damage needs meet at least three of the following five damage indicators

i)Impact Damage: (for motorcycles) where the motorcycle has suspension damage and two areas of structural frame damage (excludes scratching damage)

ii)Salt Water Damage: when a vehicle is immersed in salt water above the doorsill level or for a motorcycle, is fully immersed in salt water for any period

iii)Fresh Water Damage: when a vehicle is immersed in fresh water for more than 2 days up to the dashboard/steering wheel, or for a motorcycle, is fully immersed in fresh water for the same period

iv)Fire damage (burnt out): when a vehicle is burnt to such an extent that it is fit only for wrecking or scrap

v)Theft/Vehicle Stripped: where a vehicle is stripped of interior and exterior body parts, panels and components and is uneconomical to repair. For example, wheels, bonnet, guards, doors, boot lid and interior parts or a combination of those items are systematically stripped from a vehicle

I found these rules, and a whole heap more info on written-off vehicles at http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/myrta/downloa ... srules.pdf

For more info, check out the following Google search (note, for other states modify the search domain {the bit after site:} to be [your state].gov.au or simply make it gov.au for all states)
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q ... arch&meta=

les2010 · Post by **les2010** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:54 am

Dave #3, you is the ducks guts, good on ya mate.
Les

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:09 am

It's not that hard to get them regoed, just a bit of stuffing around at the RTA. I've done two bikes that were wrightoffs.
Once you have repaired the bike you need to take it to get a blue slip, keep your reciepts as they will ask you for these to prove that you have fixed it with out using stolen parts.
Once you have done that you have to get a CTP green slip and head over to the RTA, again take your reciepts with you.
They will send you to an RTA checking station to get the bike inspected by them to make sure there is no stolen parts etc on the bike and yes you need to take your reciepts with you again.
Once they have oked it you get to go back to the RTA and register your bike.

Sounds simple don't it !! Theres a bit of stuffing around but its not that bad.

MrStompy · Post by **MrStompy** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:37 pm

thats some great info dave.

I have been watching the Fowles online catalogues and one day a ZX6R will come up and then i will be VERY tempted to go buy it.

it would be awesome to get one and use it for a track bike but if it was re registerable that would be pretty handy too.

7THSIN · Post by **7THSIN** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:50 am

Thanks dave#3, I now know why my bike is classified as a repairable write off, rather than a statutory write off.

I have 2 dents in the frame, but the bike has been checked to to be straight and true, and there is no suspension damage.

PS. not the ZXR250

Kishy · Post by **Kishy** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:35 am

Hey 7thsin, U got any more clips of U on track?