Water damage such as your Aurion should be in a separate category. Like you said, it didn't jeopardise the structural integraty of the vehicle. Therefore, it was just a "small fix". Whereas, some of the cars with a more serious damage to the body and yet doesn't classify for ... "A statutory write-off is a vehicle that is damaged to the extent that it could not be returned to a servicable or roadworthy state - ie there is sufficient unrepairable chassis damage, or damage that cannot be repaired without contravening ADRs. The vehicle identification number is struck from the records and as such can never be re-registered, however servicable components that are either repairable or undamaged can be swapped into another chassis." - Hiro I don't think they should be allowed to re-register. (At least until a system has been devised to address the issue of dodgy repairs"