RIP

[subbieatnz]

Well depending if you have the room you could always buy another SVX and keep that one for spares... Please Dont kill it

[BoxerFanatic]

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/26/r...l-engines-wit/

cash-for-clunkers-dealers-instructed-to-kill-engines-with-sodium-silicate-Autoblog

DON'T LET THEM KILL An EG33

DON'T LET THEM KILL An SVX.


I don't know who's grand idea this legislation was, but I hope I never meet that person. I might do something I regret later.

[Gamesy]

Jeeze i'm glad i live in canada away from stupid US laws :P

[stiguy]

Originally Posted by Mike621

Any true SVX enthusiast who claims to love their car would not send one of these cars to its iminent death, regardless of incentive.


If you love your SVX, FIX IT!

I have a feeling we will see many similar threads, as most people cannot justify owning and maintaining them properly.


Remember, nobody is prying the keys from your fingers, it is your choice to send it to the crusher. I am already fed up with the members on this board complaining about this program. If you dont like it, you don't have to send your car to it's death!

Yea really!!! if you don't want it any more and dont want it to go to the crusher.... just give it to some one on the board that WILL FIX IT.

[SoCal LS-L]

Originally Posted by stiguy

Yea really!!! if you don't want it any more and dont want it to go to the crusher.... just give it to some one on the board that WILL FIX IT.

I agree, however who's handing out the $3500 checks in this forum, and where can I find him On the plus side out of this, our cars just get that much more rare.

[BoxerFanatic]

Give me my tax money back, and maybe I will use it to buy another nice SVX.

Where do you think those checks come from in the first place.

These cars were rare before. They are going to get rarified right out of spare parts, which will make it harder to keep others on the road.

[subeman90]

[SoCal LS-L]

Originally Posted by BoxerFanatic

Give me my tax money back, and maybe I will use it to buy another nice SVX.

Where do you think those checks come from in the first place.

These cars were rare before. They are going to get rarified right out of spare parts, which will make it harder to keep others on the road.

[stiguy]

Originally Posted by BoxerFanatic

Give me my tax money back, and maybe I will use it to buy another nice SVX.

Where do you think those checks come from in the first place.

These cars were rare before. They are going to get rarified right out of spare parts, which will make it harder to keep others on the road.

Quick everyone get there own parts car! lol

[Hondasucks]

Originally Posted by subiemech85

http://www.cars.gov/faq#category-14

..."The entity crushing or shredding the vehicles in this manner will be allowed to sell some parts of the vehicle prior to crushing or shredding it, but these parts cannot include the engine or the drive train."

so steal them!!

That's because the REAL reason for this stupid bill is because the free thinkin hippies don't want these gas guzzlers that are responsible for global warming, etc.. staying on the road, and they don't want the parts going to anything else. I think it's completely ridiculous to take an otherwise perfectly good car and trash it for really no good reason. Now I could see if someone brought in some junk heap, but one of the stipulations is that the car must run.. Seriously, you'd also think that scrapping out a car creates a lot of pollution and hazardous waste.. I think they also want to get rid of spare parts for these older cars, to force people to buy something new to keep the big 3 in business. This whole clunker bill just reeks of ulterior motives to me, you know how sneaky those free-thinkin liberals can be...
I could see the government offering an incentive to trade in your old car for a new one that gets better mileage, but why not give that otherwise perfectly good car to someone who doesn't have one or can't afford one... I sure hope people realize how stupid this program is and that they don't do it again! I also hope someone isn't stupid enough to trade in an SVX... (I kinda think this bill was more aimed at SUVs though, remember they are solely responsible for the polar ice caps melting!)

[SSSVX]

How long does this clunker program last?

[huck369]

Originally Posted by SSSVX

How long does this clunker program last?

Until the allotted money runs out....

[TomsSVX]

until the democrats realize it was a bad idea.... AKA 4 years from now

Tom

[BoxerFanatic]

They only allotted about 1/4 of the money they figured it would cost...

And the bill sunsets in November, IIRC, but has the option to extend.

If they see their pet project GM benefiting from this, and they think they can wring more out of it, it will likely be extended, and enlarged.

They don't seem to have any problem spending the money of generations not yet born, or printing money as fast as the presses will go, or as fast as they can write zeros in a ledger. So the money is not likely an issue for them. It is only an issue for us.

[WestCoastSVX]

In reply to the original poster and original subject of this thread before it derailed into dead horse beating.......

Do you have full coverage insurance?

I recently had a parking lot hit-and-run and it qualified for Uninsured Motorist coverage - the same thing I'd use if I got in an actual collision with someone on the road and it was their fault and they had no insurance. It was a $300 deductible in my case, but that was a lot better than $1,500, and I just had them cut me a check anyway so I pocketed $1,200 out of the deal to put towards the full bodywork/paint the car desperately needs. (I wasn't going to have $1,500 work done on a small section of the car while the rest is dented up too)

Point is, if you have that coverage on your insurance, you could have everything good as new for a few hundred bucks maybe.

Of course the danger in that is that if there's engine damage and all of that, the damage estimate might get high enough that they total it. But in your case sounds like that might be okay. You'd probably get $3,500 from the insurance for your car and it could actually go to a salvage yard that isn't required to destroy the engine and then crush it immediately.

Then again, you probably don't have full coverage. My agent years ago told me I should drop it because the car was worth so little, etc, etc. Glad I stuck with it though - for the maybe $200 extra I've paid for that coverage in those 2 years, I've gotten a $1,000 windshield replaced and now this $1,200 cash for hit-n-run.