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[gkmini]

Wait...

It's full of new MINIs?

Better let it sink then.

[jamesmpi]

All of the items on board will be covered by the shipping agents insurance, so in theory they could scrap the lot at no loss to the manufacturers... But, the delay in replacing the cars will be huge. All the MINIs at the moment are built to order so trying to reschedule a production slot won't be easy.

I will imagine most will either be shipped back to the factory or inspected at the port by specialists

[Black.Ghost]

The guy said about Mazda previously scrapping 4700 cars because of safety fears. That's insane. IF I had one of those cars as a customer, I wouldn't mind provided it had no cosmetic damage and had been fully inspected and tested. Some people are too fussy these days.

That will be a huge waste if they get written off. It will cost insurance companies millions and we may all see slightly higher premiums to cover the loss!

[Ben_O]

I can't understand why there would be concerns with the safety of the cars? What could have occurred to the cars if they were strapped down and not tumbling around the cargo hold.

[Rocket.]

I very much doubt that they will get scrapped more likely sold on as salvage

[jamesmpi]

No i very much doubt they will be sold as salvage. Can you imagine walking in to your dealer and say "Hi i want to buy a new Evoque"... "Certainly Sir, we have this lovely Silver one reduced by £5000" "Really why so cheap?" "Errmmm.....

 

The manufactures simply don't want to pass on the risk, no matter how small, to the customer. If something was to happen and somehow that car got linked back to being on that particular boat, then everyone would go mental at them. The safest action is to protect their reputation is to scrap the lot against the shipping agents insurance. (Which has nothing to do with our motoring insurance premiums

[Rocket.]

No i very much doubt they will be sold as salvage. Can you imagine walking in to your dealer and say "Hi i want to buy a new Evoque"... "Certainly Sir, we have this lovely Silver one reduced by £5000" "Really why so cheap?" "Errmmm.....

 

The manufactures simply don't want to pass on the risk, no matter how small, to the customer. If something was to happen and somehow that car got linked back to being on that particular boat, then everyone would go mental at them. The safest action is to protect their reputation is to scrap the lot against the shipping agents insurance. (Which has nothing to do with our motoring insurance premiums

 

Well they obviously wouldn't be sold out of the showroom, There are specialist salvage auctions all over the country   

 

Edit : also it wouldn't have anything to do with the manufactures if they were sold on it would be the shipping agents insurance company trying to regain some of there losses  

Edited by Rocket., 28 January 2015 - 10:53 AM.

[Black.Ghost]

The insurer may be different in name but they will all be underwritten by similar companies who won't want huge losses.

I can understand about the reputation protection but provided there are no marks on it and it's fully assessed I don't see the problem. Especially if they offered a discount (which would be cheaper than scrapping the lot) - even if they produced new cars to ship over there and sold these ones at discount.

Too much waste for nothing these days.