Now we know that both labour government and the NMVTRC are trying to stop all salvage vehicles from being re-registrable by both:
- introducing the new NSW legislation to ban all repairable write off's (Vic and QLD are also looking at how this goes before bringing it into the respective states after NSW
- forcing assessors to make more repairable write off's, statutory write off's by way of assessing the damage points and areas of damage against severity of damage (i.e. 3 impact points on part of a car's structure will make it under the new guidline a statutory write off, even if the impact isn't less than 5mm!?)
No where in the world has got such stipulations, especially seeing that in Australia we don't even have a benchmark for repair standards / methods to make sure the greater number of vehicles that get repaired each year are done so to an industry standard.
Shouldn't these groups start to look at behavious that these points will drive on both insurers and policy holders, when they are ofered a cash settlement, what happens with that salvage then???