Neon?

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Fri May 28, 2010 10:25 am

Pretty wrinkled. We pulled it a good ways already too.

That is all.

glasswars · Post by **glasswars** » Fri May 28, 2010 10:26 am

Wow, that is insane. Never seen how damages like that are fixed.

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Fri May 28, 2010 10:28 am

My orange car was easily twice as bad.

Can't tell from the pic. But the frame was pushed down, and in alot.

smiley · Post by **smiley** » Fri May 28, 2010 10:43 am

damn, looks like a lotta work

dblsg · Post by **dblsg** » Fri May 28, 2010 12:10 pm

so whats the deal with it?

Post by **occasional demons** » Fri May 28, 2010 12:13 pm

And to think mine was totaled with far less damaged than that. I guess Progressive's body shop/adjuster didn't count on me buying the salvage. Nothing like legalized robbery.

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Fri May 28, 2010 1:28 pm

dblsg wrote:so whats the deal with it?

It's my gf's. Bought it wrecked for $1800 and going to fix it and it'll be her new car.

05 with 61k on it.

srtgtr34 · Post by **srtgtr34** » Fri May 28, 2010 3:25 pm

Wow you have a frame machine in your garage??

Lucky man.

Post by **racer12306** » Fri May 28, 2010 4:26 pm

Is it really worth it though?

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Fri May 28, 2010 4:53 pm

racer12306 wrote:Is it really worth it though?

Labor = 0
Parts are only going to cost around 200 because we have other parts laying around.
Paint = 300 or so for materials. Dad will paint it.

Can you buy a 2005 Neon with 61k for ~2500?

Mopar_Korean · Post by **Mopar_Korean** » Fri May 28, 2010 6:37 pm

I say its worth it. If the girlfriend doesnt like it you can always sell it for 4 or 5 grand and buy something else.

thump3r · Post by **thump3r** » Fri May 28, 2010 7:14 pm

deffently worth it.

i do this for a living.

you can buy a low mile neon for 200 - 500 at the auctions and spend maybe 1500 on parts plus your labour.

as long as the car isnt hit to bad there worth fixing. things to stay away from is diamond in the body. side hits ( can be very difficult to pull out) and always look beyond the damaged area for wrinkles.

not sure if its the same in the states or not with brands on cars but at least here you try to stay away from branded cars. even tho i can sign them off and put them back on the road it will always say its was rebuilt and there hard to sell. and not to mention the head ache of paper work that goes along with getting them back on the road.

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Fri May 28, 2010 7:15 pm

Mopar_Korean wrote:I say its worth it. If the girlfriend doesnt like it you can always sell it for 4 or 5 grand and buy something else.

Not with an R Title. My brother's 05 has same miles and nobody's bitten on it for 5k. It's clean too.

I like the Stone White.

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Fri May 28, 2010 8:49 pm

Even selling it for 4k would yeild a 1500 profit.

She plans on keeping and modding it.

I like the stone white also.

DOSneons · Post by **DOSneons** » Fri May 28, 2010 9:06 pm

sweet....

i want one of those machines

Post by **occasional demons** » Sat May 29, 2010 6:42 am

sidepipe87 wrote:
Mopar_Korean wrote:I say its worth it. If the girlfriend doesnt like it you can always sell it for 4 or 5 grand and buy something else.
Not with an R Title. My brother's 05 has same miles and nobody's bitten on it for 5k. It's clean too.

I like the Stone White.

Rebuilt Salvage = take book/fair market, and about half is what the "value" is. An insurance company will pay out even less than that.

Their take on it is that you/someone was already paid for the value of the car when totaled, so they will not pay out again.

My spin is, OK, I got that $, but if I use it to get another car, and it gets totaled, then why do they pay in full for that one, since I used the same $ that I would have fixed the R salvage to buy the other car. In their "logic" I am still getting paid twice. Just a different car is all.