Posted by NCWayne on July 11, 2012 at 11:29:30 from (69.40.232.132):
In Reply to: Why do they do that? posted by rrlund on July 11, 2012 at 08:51:42:
Been questioning the same thing myself over the past 6 months or so and still haven't come up with an answer that makes sense.
Wife's '02 PT Criuser was hit in the right rear by the tire of a van. Damage consisted of a bent panel around the tail light housing, a busted tail light housing, a skuff on the 'bumper', and a skint place on the rim. I was actually the one driving when we got hit and drove the thing home. My wife then drove it for nearly a month whilem the insurance company decided what they wanted to do after we gave them two quotes for just under $3000 to repair it.
In our case they finally gave us a choice, repair and get that amount covered in full, plus the cost of a rental for a week, or give it up for savage and recieve x amount, or salvage it, buy it back fior $1000 and keep it. We let them salvage it and bought it back. Took the money from the settlement, added in a couple of hundred and bought a used Surburban like we had been talking about for use on trips, etc. It took mke about 45 minutes one evening to get the sheet metal beat back out just about enough to carry the light assembly like it's supposed to. With about 45 more minutes of hammer time and a bit of bondo and sanding, I'll be able to throw a coat of paint on it and you'll never know it was wrecked......and I'm no body man by any means.
The end result is we get a nice daily driver, with less than 1000,000 miles, that just had full tune up, new timing belt installed, etc, etc all less than a month before the wreck, all for the low price of $1000 and a little bit for paint when the time comes. Too we also got a nice grocery getter, trip maker, kid hauler, tow vehicle, all rolled into one for what amounts to a few hundred dollars. Situations like this really don't make sense to me, but when used and taken advantage of properly you can come out on top. Otherwise, in my opinion, to simply total a car because it has a dent here and there, like often happens, if sheer stupidity at it's finest and one of the reasons this country continues to go downhill as fast as it does.
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