Jon, first of all, sorry to hear of this incident - just be grateful you or a loved one were not sitting in the car...
The world of vehicle collision loss recovery is a murky one. Who has supplied the Audi TT and who is paying for it? If your fully comprehensive insurers have instructed a claims management company for you then make them earn their money, ring them up and ask them when an engineer is going to value your car. If supplied by them, the Audi is possibly being supplied to you on a credit hire basis at exhorbitant rates - be satisfied there is no come back on you.
It may be prudent for you to do a little leg work yourself. Find out from the police if the drunk driver or the drunk driver's car were insured. If so, ultimately the driver's insurers will be picking up the bill and will want to resolve matters promptly if they are paying expensive hire car and storage rates. If the driver was not insured but the car was (eg son has taken Mum's insured car) then that insurer would ultimately be liable. If they have already supplied the Audi then ignore this.
Effectively there are two routes open to you. One is to claim on your fully comprehensive policy and then let your insurers recover their outlay from the drink driver's insurers, or, you can go straight to the other driver's insurers yourself. They will probably be very keen to deal with you.
In the meantime, scour this website, Pistonheads, Autotrader, and all the Porsche specialists you can think of to try and find similar examples to your car. Screenshot / print them out. I don't know if Club office is currently doing valuations but if not, you would hope that an exception would be made to help a member in your position - ring Rich Baldelli and ask him.
You are meant to be put in the position you were in before the collision. Buying a back street trader's 10 previous owner car that needs a service, brakes and tyres is not the same as you keeping your pride and joy. You should try to negotiate full retail price as the value for your car. - you have to buy another one, not part-ex it! Bundle together all the service history for your car and find the best photos you have. Use that evidence to challenge the first offer you receive if it is not acceptable to you.
Good luck with it all. Terry's car sounds nice!
The world of vehicle collision loss recovery is a murky one. Who has supplied the Audi TT and who is paying for it? If your fully comprehensive insurers have instructed a claims management company for you then make them earn their money, ring them up and ask them when an engineer is going to value your car. If supplied by them, the Audi is possibly being supplied to you on a credit hire basis at exhorbitant rates - be satisfied there is no come back on you.
It may be prudent for you to do a little leg work yourself. Find out from the police if the drunk driver or the drunk driver's car were insured. If so, ultimately the driver's insurers will be picking up the bill and will want to resolve matters promptly if they are paying expensive hire car and storage rates. If the driver was not insured but the car was (eg son has taken Mum's insured car) then that insurer would ultimately be liable. If they have already supplied the Audi then ignore this.
Effectively there are two routes open to you. One is to claim on your fully comprehensive policy and then let your insurers recover their outlay from the drink driver's insurers, or, you can go straight to the other driver's insurers yourself. They will probably be very keen to deal with you.
In the meantime, scour this website, Pistonheads, Autotrader, and all the Porsche specialists you can think of to try and find similar examples to your car. Screenshot / print them out. I don't know if Club office is currently doing valuations but if not, you would hope that an exception would be made to help a member in your position - ring Rich Baldelli and ask him.
You are meant to be put in the position you were in before the collision. Buying a back street trader's 10 previous owner car that needs a service, brakes and tyres is not the same as you keeping your pride and joy. You should try to negotiate full retail price as the value for your car. - you have to buy another one, not part-ex it! Bundle together all the service history for your car and find the best photos you have. Use that evidence to challenge the first offer you receive if it is not acceptable to you.
Good luck with it all. Terry's car sounds nice!
