Insurance companies are there to look after their interests and not your
interests.  You are guilty until proven innocent.  I am going to court in
March to prove my innocents on an injury obtained in an accident over two
years ago.

I have helped more than a few people with the 'worth' of a Double Cab for
various insurance companies as they said they were worth only a few thousand
dollars.  Right!

My two cents worth is total the thing and get another one.  Once fixed, even
if it looks as good as it did before the crash, it is still a salvage
vehicle and that knocks 25% off the value of the vehicle.  Nobody wants an
accident vehicle.

David Marshall

Fast Forward Automotive Inc.
4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road
Quesnel BC Canada  V2J 6Z3

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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Mike Miller
Sent: January 23, 2004 8:05 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Westfalia prices

I have an '85, full camper Westy.  Insurance co first valued it at $1700
then looked at all westys and went up to $5400.  That was enough to fix the
van but if it wasn't I was going to ask them to look at only full camper
Westys.

Stick shift, AC converted to R134a.

Mike

On 1/23/04 4:30 PM, "Steven Sittser" <Ssittservl@AOL.COM> wrote:

> Our beloved Westfalia was recently badly damaged in an accident.
> I want to get it repaired, but the insurance company wants to
> total it.  I believe they are underestimating its value.
>
> If anyone knows the selling price of a Westfalia camper in the
> last year or so, could you send it to me?  Mine is a 1988 full
> camper, in excellent condition, with automatic transmission
> and air conditioning, and with the addition of a holding
> tank, a furnace, and an auxilliary battery system (some of which
> are described over at my web site, www.sittser.com).  The closer
> the year and condition are to mine, the better.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>                             -Steven Sittser
>
>