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I am very sorry to hear of your loss Tazhearts, we do seem to have a couple of things in common in that we both own a Lunar Zenith and have them insured by the same company.

As goes for the value of the caravan and contents, Caravan Gaurd valued mine using Glasse's Guide, and then rang Lunar to confirm the year my caravan was Manufactured as it wasnt listed, the Lunar Zenith 4 having stopped being produced in 2005, when ours was clearly a 2006 season caravan. The value of our caravan last June was £6000, and we had additional contents insurance of £1500, which included the value of our awning. I am telling you this in a hope it may give you some idea of the actual value of your caravan today.

If you bought your caravan from a dealer, then the price would have included a sum added by the dealer to cover any possible work done by them under any warantee offered, which would be above the price asked if you had bought privately.

I will dig out some paper work i have later, that states Lunar secondhand values that was given to us last year when we were trying to value ours for insurance purposes. Im fairly sure that it will give the value of a 2003 Lunar 6 and provide some kind of ballpark figure to base your negociations, i will post up these values later.

I hope this helps a little,

Julia

www.caravanpriceguide.com

2003 Lunar Zenith 6    When new   Dealer forecourt price   Private sale

                                  10850                  5200                     4600

Hope this helps, 

Julia

Have a read of this thread along the same lines. I posted some comments on process and a link to the treating people fairly principles backed by the FSA. Hopefully it may give you some optimism

Phil

If they write it off they will pay you out an agreed sum, and the caravan will become their property and be removed from your custody. Some damaged caravans do get sold on via auction sites/houses just as written off cars do for spares or scrap metal, but I think you can rest assured that if your caravan is economically repairable then they will do so, they do tend to go for the cheapest option for themselves to fund wherever possible.

I once had an Avondale caravan, that was involved in a nasty accident at three years old, where a complete side and the front was damaged when hit by a lorry traveling in the opposite direction, plus the hitch twisted off by the impact. The car was also a total write off at 18mths old, but the caravan was worked on and returned to us as road worthy, although it was easy to see that it had been repaired by the slight differances in colour. We never really felt the same about it after the accident, and we traded it in the following season for a new one.

Good luck anyway, and i hope you have your claim settled promptly and fairly.

Julia