What we do
Catigory Cars are based just north of Bishops Stortford and specialises in repairing and selling cars that have been classed as Category D, C, S or N as per the Association of British Insurers Code of Practice. The following About page explains what Category C, D, S and N cars are and all the facts you need to know.
There were 323,127 road vehicle accidents in 2016/17. Of those 197,312 were cars. If 60% of those were repaired by the insurer then there are 118,392 thousand repaired cars put back on the road in 2016 and beyond. These cars have been through the same process of being repaired but they don't have any Category C, D, S or N marked against them. They also do NOT go through an independent Autolign test.
I don't have any problem with a correctly repaired car but I do not want to buy a car that has not been correctly repaired and I have no way of knowing this if it's one of the 118,392 cars previously mentioned or indeed one of the many more thousands of repaired cars that have never been through the insurance claim procedure.
If I buy a car that is advertised as a Category C, D, S or N then I know what I am buying. I am being given the cars history and can make a informed judgment. I can if required get the car inspected.
CatigoryCars buys only cars that have panel damage or cars that have been stolen recovered or HP recovered. We do not buy cars that have any shell/chassis damage.
CatigoryCars gives all its cars a 3 month warranty with a no quibble money back guarantee*.
Once repaired our CatigoryCars (cars under 3 years old) undergo a Thatcham approved HPI vehicle inspection by AutoLign independent engineers test (cost £300). This is the only UK inspection approved by HPI and MIRRC. It is a through test run by highly qualified vehicle engineers. Any repairs to the vehicle must be perfect or its a fail, no compromise. Once passed they are removed from the HPI active Condition Alert Register and reclassified on the Condition Inspected register as correctly repaired.
CatigoryCars services all its vehicles before sale (filters, oil, brakes etc.).
With CatigoryCars you are purchasing a car that will be in better condition than most of the equivalent model/year.
With CatigoryCars you will be buying a car at a significantly (up to 30% below list) lower price than the equivalent model/year but with the knowledge of knowing its history. Assuring you that the significant saving you have made will make your car a good buy if you sell the car on.
Viewing the cars
You can view any of our cars anytime. Just call Barry on 07754772475 or 01279 814336 to make an appointment or just call. Our address is Unit 3, Mole Hall Farm Estate, Cornells Lane, Widdington, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 3SS
Making an offer for a car
a) Go to the Cars For Sale page
b) If, after looking at the pictures you see a car you are interested in, note the cars ref no
c) Go to the contact page and quoting the cars ref no make a fair offer
d) I will contact you and you can come and view the car at our workshop or if local I can drive the car to your location.
There were 323,127 road vehicle accidents in 2016/17. Of those 197,312 were cars. If 60% of those were repaired by the insurer then there are 118,392 thousand repaired cars put back on the road in 2016 and beyond. These cars have been through the same process of being repaired but they don't have any Category C, D, S or N marked against them. They also do NOT go through an independent Autolign test.
I don't have any problem with a correctly repaired car but I do not want to buy a car that has not been correctly repaired and I have no way of knowing this if it's one of the 118,392 cars previously mentioned or indeed one of the many more thousands of repaired cars that have never been through the insurance claim procedure.
If I buy a car that is advertised as a Category C, D, S or N then I know what I am buying. I am being given the cars history and can make a informed judgment. I can if required get the car inspected.
CatigoryCars buys only cars that have panel damage or cars that have been stolen recovered or HP recovered. We do not buy cars that have any shell/chassis damage.
CatigoryCars gives all its cars a 3 month warranty with a no quibble money back guarantee*.
Once repaired our CatigoryCars (cars under 3 years old) undergo a Thatcham approved HPI vehicle inspection by AutoLign independent engineers test (cost £300). This is the only UK inspection approved by HPI and MIRRC. It is a through test run by highly qualified vehicle engineers. Any repairs to the vehicle must be perfect or its a fail, no compromise. Once passed they are removed from the HPI active Condition Alert Register and reclassified on the Condition Inspected register as correctly repaired.
CatigoryCars services all its vehicles before sale (filters, oil, brakes etc.).
With CatigoryCars you are purchasing a car that will be in better condition than most of the equivalent model/year.
With CatigoryCars you will be buying a car at a significantly (up to 30% below list) lower price than the equivalent model/year but with the knowledge of knowing its history. Assuring you that the significant saving you have made will make your car a good buy if you sell the car on.
Viewing the cars
You can view any of our cars anytime. Just call Barry on 07754772475 or 01279 814336 to make an appointment or just call. Our address is Unit 3, Mole Hall Farm Estate, Cornells Lane, Widdington, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 3SS
Making an offer for a car
a) Go to the Cars For Sale page
b) If, after looking at the pictures you see a car you are interested in, note the cars ref no
c) Go to the contact page and quoting the cars ref no make a fair offer
d) I will contact you and you can come and view the car at our workshop or if local I can drive the car to your location.
What we stand for
Discard, Obsolescence, Disposal, Throw away!
It seems that in today’s society, we dispose of literally everything we have in our hands. We think that we’ve become a better society than in the past by becoming more aware about “Global Warming”, bragging about how we’re now “eco-friendly”. Yet it seems that we’ve become more consumers than conservationists. We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
We live in a throw away world where we are actively encouraged to dump what we have for the slightest of reasons. Government subsidises us to scrap perfectly newish driveable cars, citing ecology and "getting polluting cars off the streets" as an excuse; easily refuted by the facts that producing a car pollutes much more than driving it.
It is also because of people being told that their cars 'aren't worth repairing' so they won't spend £1,000 on repairing an otherwise perfectly good car because it will be 'worth' less than £1,000 when repaired even though they wouldn't be selling it in any case. So instead they buy a new car for £10,000 and it has lost more than £1,000 the minute they drive out of the showroom.
Teaching basic economics and personal finance in schools would help; it would be nice to see space made for it. Then they might see that buying a three-year-old car instead of a new one could save them up to £60 a week, and I can certainly do a lot with an extra £60 a week.
So why do perfectly easily reparable cars not get fixed? Because we are encouraged not to do so as this would not generate the kind of economic activity that is demanded, so we are fooled into believing that our perfectly good three or four year old car is somehow obsolete and old fashioned and we need to get a new one. Even though it makes far more economic and environmental sense to buy the best car we can reasonably afford and keep it fifteen years.
The sad thing is that this wanton waste is not sustainable in the long term. Sooner than we realise we will have to pay the piper for "planned obsolescence".
Repairing easily reparable cars makes sense, it's what we used to do before the lunatics started running the asylum. I am proud of what CatigoryCars stands for in this Age of Discard, Obsolescence, Disposal and Throw away!.
It seems that in today’s society, we dispose of literally everything we have in our hands. We think that we’ve become a better society than in the past by becoming more aware about “Global Warming”, bragging about how we’re now “eco-friendly”. Yet it seems that we’ve become more consumers than conservationists. We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
We live in a throw away world where we are actively encouraged to dump what we have for the slightest of reasons. Government subsidises us to scrap perfectly newish driveable cars, citing ecology and "getting polluting cars off the streets" as an excuse; easily refuted by the facts that producing a car pollutes much more than driving it.
It is also because of people being told that their cars 'aren't worth repairing' so they won't spend £1,000 on repairing an otherwise perfectly good car because it will be 'worth' less than £1,000 when repaired even though they wouldn't be selling it in any case. So instead they buy a new car for £10,000 and it has lost more than £1,000 the minute they drive out of the showroom.
Teaching basic economics and personal finance in schools would help; it would be nice to see space made for it. Then they might see that buying a three-year-old car instead of a new one could save them up to £60 a week, and I can certainly do a lot with an extra £60 a week.
So why do perfectly easily reparable cars not get fixed? Because we are encouraged not to do so as this would not generate the kind of economic activity that is demanded, so we are fooled into believing that our perfectly good three or four year old car is somehow obsolete and old fashioned and we need to get a new one. Even though it makes far more economic and environmental sense to buy the best car we can reasonably afford and keep it fifteen years.
The sad thing is that this wanton waste is not sustainable in the long term. Sooner than we realise we will have to pay the piper for "planned obsolescence".
Repairing easily reparable cars makes sense, it's what we used to do before the lunatics started running the asylum. I am proud of what CatigoryCars stands for in this Age of Discard, Obsolescence, Disposal and Throw away!.