what do they mean? this might help a few of you as it seems a very common question

Below are the advisory status the insurance assesors will issue a car when it is inspected. *note the word ADVISORY, we will come to that later*

CAT A : Scrap only, ie, with few or no economically salvagable parts and vehicle is of value only for scrap, ie total burnouts.

CAT B : Break for spare parts, if economically viable (excluding any residual scrap value)

CAT C : Repairable total loss, Vehicles where repair costs including vat exceed the vehicles pre acicdent value.

CAT D : Repairable total loss vehicles where the repair costs do not exceed the vehicles re accident value.



So as i mentioned before, these are advisory markers only. ~ There is no reason why a CAT A car cannot be returned to the road....however salvage disposers should try to ensure cat A and B vehilces do not re appear on the road.

The point of no return for these vehicles, is when they are issued with a COD marker (certificate of destruction) issued by scrap disposers, this means the cars have been destroyed.
it has been known for cars with cod markers to re appear on the road, and this is normally dealt with by the scrapping of the car under dvla instruction.

CAT A,B,and C cars will require a vic test to be issued with a new v5.