What is the ABI Category?
Answer: The ABI Category is an indication of the level of damage to a vehicle.
There are four categories A, B, C & D (also some vehicles may be labeled category U to indicate Unclassified, or X to denote "unrecorded").
Category A indicates the most severe level of damage. This type of vehicle is crushed and not sold at auction. An example would be a "burn out".
Category B vehicles must be broken for spares. These vehicles must not be repaired. HBC only sell such vehicles to licensed & approved vehicle dismantlers.
Category C vehicles may be repaired (although they are uneconomic for the Insurance Company to have repaired).
Category D vehicles covers all other repairable vehicles.
Category U indicates that the vehicle is uncategorised by the provider of the item to HBC.
Category X indicates that the vehicle is unrecorded these vehicles not recorded as accident damaged. Normally these vehicles are stolen recovered, or have slight damage
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