If you’re searching for a secondhand car, you may come across vehicles described as a ‘previous write-off’. Essentially, this means the car’s been damaged severely enough for the insurers to consider it not worth repairing, but someone has repaired it to return it to the road. A car can be one of four write-off categories, depending on the severity of the damage. These were changed in 2017 when the Association of British Insurance (ABI) changed its salvage code to, reflect the structural damage to a car rather than focusing solely on the cost of repair. The new categories are as…
