Owner Retention??? HELP!
 

Hey, as most of you know my beautiful '92 was totaled as seen in the pictures. However, barring the engine and drivers side the car was in immaculate shape. Do you think it would be worth retaining the car and trying to part her out than letting her go to the crusher.

Again... the engine is basically toast, but she had a rebuilt transmission (no idea on the condition). The drivers door is toast, but the passenger doors windows were not even broken. Also, everything back from the door and most things all the way to the front on the passenger side are still in good shape along with 3 of the wheels.. the 4th is still a ? at this point. just judging interest and seeing what i may be able to get out of it.

p.s. if i retain the vehicle I will have almost a $1000 deficit to make up, whereas if i do not keep it i still will have a $500 dollar one with no means of making the money

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Its doubtful you will make up your $1000 deficit on parting it out, probably not even $500. Unless of course, you are willing to wait any number of years until all of the parts are eventually needed. If you do try, I would dismantle everything you can get and put it all on ebay and here at the same time. Do the lights, tailbar, vanity and interior parts, MAF sensor, anything thats not too heavy or big to ship cheaply.

Crap you have the federal ECU, how much you want for it ?? :lol: Maybe if you dont keep the car you can sneak that out anyways :)

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What is the federal ecu?

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49 state ECU
CA has its own emission standard that are especially strict requiring extra reading/sensors on most cars and therefor a different ECU.
For instance, CA ECU on the SVX not only detects an EGR sensor like all US SVXi but also has a temp reading for it. Ask So-cal about it as he had issues for seemingly forever.

Also, I think I caught someone on here that said now AZ now follows CA in their emission standards.

As much as I hate to say it on the car, Probably not gonna be able to make enough off of it buying it back for $1000. I would suggest pulling off anything you can though before it gets taken away. sensors, computers, anything you can grab...

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$1000 to buy your car back? wth? who is your insurance company? My first SVX was a 96 and my dad totalled it. I paid $4,400 for it and it was mint condition. Allstate not only gave me the max blue book of $8,500 at the time, but I bought it back for $600 and its repairable!!! Would cost a ton of money, but there is absolutely no frame damage even though my dad hit a tree head on at about 80mph!

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Oh man I wish "had" were true :lol: Still there, and the ONLY thing I havent done past replacing the entire EGR system is yanking the intake manifold to clean the runners.

Didnt you mention that you had an ECU you were selling?

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I would make them a counter offer. Maybe split the difference. Offer them $750 which is still $250 more than they will get from you if you let them have it.

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I would guess from looking at your pictures that the transmission is probably damaged too. Especially being a stock transmission, rebuilt or not, it will probably fail eventually anyway. Any parts still salvageable I doubt you will be able to break even buying the car back for $1000. Are you up for parting the car out yourself? If you don't have the time, space, or proper tools to part the car, it will be more trouble than its worth. If I were you, I would try to buy the car back for much less. If that isn't possible, I would say goodbye and move on.

That is just my 2 cents.

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I will make them a counter offer monday. But the way im out so much is because i still owe $28xx on that car and theyre only going to give me $23xx to pay it off... Which leaves me eating almost 500 roughly without the car. If i choose to keep the car they are going to deduct a salvage value of 479 dollars too. Equalling almost 1000 man insurance companies are butts! I feel like i shouldnt have to pay a dime considering the wreck wasnt even my fault.

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You should talk to the ins company about the value of your car. Judging by what I can, it looks like it was in great shape beforehand. You should be able to argue that the car's actual value is much higher than $2300.

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Agreed.

I did this when my old svx was totaled. By no means was my car in "great shape" but with maintenance records/receipts and a couple weeks of negotiation with the insurance company I ended up getting $4800 as opposed to the original $2300 they wanted to offer me. If you take your time and back up your points with hard evidence (records/receipts) you should be able to come out on top.

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That's great advice :),
looks like your damage was one year ago, on an SVX with nearly 180K.

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Yep, and a tranny that was well on it's way out...but insurance didn't need to know that ;)

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AFAIK the ECU's should be all the same. There's a pin on the connector to switch it between CA mode and 49-state mode.

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So-Cal should take that to note. He's been looking for a Federal ECU for the simple fact of him having the EGR temp sensor codes for forever...

Hey Chris, do you see this?!:D:D