Man fixes crash-damaged Bentley in 24 hours then takes it to WeBuyAnyCar for valuation and receives surprising offer

This man won himself a crash-damaged Bentley by fixing it up in 24 hours, but what sort of offer would he get when he took it into WeBuyAnyCar?

YouTuber Jack McNeill and his pal Rufus won this Bentley Continental V8 S from none other than Mat Armstrong.

He promised them the car if they could fix it in 24 hours and get it to pass a road safety inspection.

Now that they had the car, they wanted to see how much it was worth – but would the answers prove to be a disappointment?

How much would WeBuyAnyCar offer up for this crash-damaged Bentley?

As you might imagine, being set a challenge to fix up a Bentley on Mat Armstrong’s channel is a daunting prospect.

“I’ve been doing YouTube seriously for three years, so I’ve done my own builds, but I’ve never done anything crash-damaged,” McNeill told Supercar Blondie.

“It was very daunting. When we took off the damaged wing and we saw the structural damage, that’s when I thought ‘This is going to be very difficult’.

“Knowing that all of Mat’s audience was watching us was even scarier.”

Since acquiring the car from Armstrong, the car has been put through its fair share of repairs.

The air suspension and electric boot got fixed, as did the air conditioning and traction control.

From there, it was time to take the car off for a valuation at WeBuyAnyCar.

With the car being declared a Category S (Structural damage), there was some trepidation at how much it would be valued.

As a result, the car was estimated to be worth $25,079 (£19,000), which was significantly lower than it would have been if not for the Category S designation.

“I obviously knew that the Category S was going to massively going to affect the price of it,” McNeill admitted.

“It’s very difficult for a dealership to retail that. I wasn’t that shocked, but it goes to show much a category marker can devalue a car like that.

“I was more curious to find out about the processes that gets to that value. I was a bit shocked by the figure – that’s a lot lower than I was expecting.”

This isn’t the first time someone has been taken aback when taking their car in for a valuation.

When this British man took his $5 million collection to WeBuyAnyCar, he was left stunned by the figure he was given.

Another man was in for a shock when he took in his Land Rover Discovery 3.

What happened in the end?

At BINCA car dealership, the car was estimated to be worth $26,395 (£20,000), partly due to the panel gaps on the wing.

However, there was some speculation that a private buyer might pay higher for it.

“That is just the harsh reality of having a Bentley which is categorized in the S category,” McNeill conceded.

Would things look any better at a third spot?

Before taking it there, they gave the car a good clean and got it a stage 2 polish to remove a lot of the scratches.

Null Hill Supercars gave McNeill his highest valuation of the day at $30,352 (£23,000).

In this case, the car’s immaculate detailing and documented genuine parts played in the Bentley’s favor.

But the car would have been worth a lot more if it wasn’t Category S – around $44,552.

It just shows what a difference structural damage can make to a car’s value.

In terms of future plans for the car, McNeill said he wanted to revisit the exhaust to make it even louder.

“We might also go on a road trip in it,” he said.

“We also want to do another video where we go to a few supercar dealerships to see what we could trade in for, at the values we got from those valuations.”

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