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Audi Q3 Sline - Insurance have paid out on a stolen car but... - Ali19888
Advice needed

So we had our Audi stolen around a year go... we sent all the paperwork in like the V5 and keys etc and subsequently received a pay out.

we received a letter from the insurance company in November this year saying they no longer have an interest in the private plate so we can now retain the plate, after doing some digging we have found out the car has been found in Durham .... admiral have sent us the log book back which is still in our name as proof for dvla for the plate.

I want to know even though they have paid out are we still entitled to the car back now it’s been found? Do they insure the risk and not the asset and after all the v5 is still in our name ?
Audi Q3 Sline - Insurance have paid out on a stolen car but... - nick62
I want to know even though they have paid out are we still entitled to the car back now it’s been found?

No, it now belongs to the insurance company.

Nothing to stop you trying to buy it back from them though.

Audi Q3 Sline - Insurance have paid out on a stolen car but... - Vitesse6

Why would you want it back after some thief has abused it? Who knows what damage has been done to it.

Audi Q3 Sline - Insurance have paid out on a stolen car but... - SLO76
They’ve bought title to it by paying out. You can ask for a price to buy it if you want but even if it’s salvageable and fit to return to the road its write-off status will mean it has little value so don’t sink much money into it if you do.