Car salvage
can be used for finding cheap spare parts or for buying a damage
repairable car.
Salvage Terminology:
•O/S =
off-side (which means the drivers side of the vehicle)
•O/S/F = off-side front
•O/S/R = off-side rear
•N/S = near-side (which means the passengers side of the
vehicle)
•N/S/F = near-side front
•N/S/R = near-side rear
•NROV = the vehicle is not recorded on the HPI register
•U/S = un-serviceable (the part specified is no good)
•S/REC = stolen recovered
•F/S/H = full service history
Insurance Categories
Below is a list of the classifications by which insurance companies write-off
vehicles.
Vehicles categorised
as ‘A’or ‘B’have been so severely accident
damaged that they are deemed unfit for repair by the insurers
and must therefore be “crushed”to prevent them from
being able to go back on the road.
CAT ‘A’
A written-off vehicle that must be totally destroyed, including all of its
parts. CAT ‘B’
A written-off vehicle from which the spare parts may be re-sold, but from which
the body-shell should be destroyed so that the vehicle cannot be returned to
the road. CAT ‘C’
A vehicle that is written-off by the insurers because the repair costs are
greater than the value of the vehicle itself, but which can nonetheless still
be potentially repaired to a roadworthy condition. CAT ‘D’
A vehicle that has been written-off by the insurers, for various possible reasons,
even though its physical repair costs are less than the vehicle’s actual
value. CAT ‘X’
A vehicle that is “not recorded”as being damaged on the HPI register,
or which has very minimal damage only. These vehicles are usually “stolen-recovered”cases.