Advertised Cat D/N Car - Damage Report?

[MrWibbs]

Hi All. Not sure if this has been discussed in the past. Just browsing through the ads and found a car that was deemed beyond economical repair about 8 years ago. It appears to have been repaired and has been used regularly since.
Is there a way to determine what was damaged on a vehicle that has been deemed a Cat D/N, from an insurance company?
There seems to be plenty of ways to discover 'if' a vehicle was given a category, but I can't seem to see if you can find out what damage was discovered and therefore what would need repairing to make it 'roadworthy' again.

[Dr Interceptor]

If I was repairing a categorised car, I would take photos of the 'before' damage, and put them in a file with receipts for all the parts purchased for the repair, and photos of the finished car. In fact I have done that in the past.

There are salvage checks you can do, if the car was sold for salvage through someone like Copart, they can find the photos for you...

https://www.checkcardetails.co.uk/salvage-history-...

[Trevor555]

MrWibbs said:

Is there a way to determine what was damaged on a vehicle that has been deemed a Cat D/N, from an insurance company?

Not as far as I'm aware.

Find someone who's worked in a bodyshop to take along with you.

And on your road test hit the brakes at 70mph to find out if it's bent.

[joropug]

V check often has photos of cars whilst in savage yards . Definitely worth a check (cost similar to normal HPI )

[MrWibbs]

Many thanks for the replies.

[kambites]

As above there's no official way although repairers often do take photos to make it easier to sell the car on.

Of course it's possible the car was never damaged at all; there are reasons for a car to be written off which don't involve it being damaged (most obviously theft).