Need help making decision r3v

[thereisnoyun]

Why exactly is totaling the car bad? EG if your car is worth 4k. they say theres 3k worth of damage. It's totaled. They cut you a check for 4k. Buy the car back for $500, fix car, prove to insurance it's insurable. Done.

It happened to my track E30. No salvage title, nothing.

Gussin you found a new hood Yun?

yes, if the car is worth 4k, lets say repair is 3k. I have 1000 left, buying the car back would be likely 800 dollars for a cab. Then I gotta go to inspection, I got to reregister the car, etc etc. 200 bucks is not going to cover it. In fact all that work would be worthless. There is alot of intrisic value to time spent versus a couple hundred bucks.

[shiboujin]

Where do you get 800 for a buy back? Most insurance companies have a pretty flat rate for it. You shouldn't have to reregister. Your car is still registered in your name. You do need to redo inspection.

In my case, I just slapped on some new body panels and spent the rest of the money on go fast parts. You'd likely spend it on paint and actually making the car the way it was. For that reason, what happened was probably better/easier in your case. But IMO not all cases.

[Davenandez]

Sir, April 1st was about a week ago... Lol

[thereisnoyun]

Where do you get 800 for a buy back? Most insurance companies have a pretty flat rate for it. You shouldn't have to reregister. Your car is still registered in your name. You do need to redo inspection.

In my case, I just slapped on some new body panels and spent the rest of the money on go fast parts. You'd likely spend it on paint and actually making the car the way it was. For that reason, what happened was probably better/easier in your case. But IMO not all cases.

totally agree, if you dont care about body work, obviously it wouldnt matter, cause you can buy any rusted part as long as its not too bad structurally and slap it on, and buy a bunch of go fast parts.

if I didnt care, I wouldnt even bother with the paint shop, I would have welded up myself took a hammer to it and leave it the way it is. It would still have look 100% better than most of the e30 guys car. haha which is pretty sad.

[01djb]

dang these fu*kers are like vulchers over here!
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