1988 90 Quattro rear-ended and totalled in Canada

[Radek]

Thanks for your kind words, guys.  Yes, the car did its job and that's why
I'm in one piece, I have been lucky.   I guess the only reasonable thing to
do now is wait for the insurance company to contact me and take it from
there.  Just that I have that uneasy feeling they may try to weasel out of
responsibility.

The lady from Toronto contacted me off-list and I may save some parts for
her but I don't know any good mechanics there.  I know ONE excellent
mechanic in Ottawa, but that's about 400 kms away...

Kurt, I suppose I could keep the car for parts behind the garage but that
smells of divorce...  My wife has barely tolerated my two Audis because of
the time they take.  She actually seems quite content one is going away.  I
will want to save recent parts, like heater core and blower, replaced just
last fall, perhaps the catalytic converter, rear tie rods, things that don't
take an awful lot of time to remove.  If insurance lets me buy the car back,
I will post on Audifans Marketplace what I have.  I'll keep you guys posted
of any new developments.  Thanks!

Radek.


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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 11:47:12 -0400
> From: "Radek" <radek at istar.ca>
> Subject: 1988 90 Quattro rear-ended and totalled in Canada
> To: <quattro at audifans.com>
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> Hello group;
>
> I got rear-ended here in the Ottawa area a couple of days ago.  On a
> highway, a girl in a Tercel tried to squeeze into the right lane behind me
> at the moment the whole column started breaking.  She hit me pretty hard.
> The whiplash is healing, but the car is not good.  Driver-side rear
quarter
> is damaged, including the longitudinal beam in the trunk that is partly
> crushed.   Only the spare wheel kept the left fender in shape.  Insurance
> appraiser says the car is most likely totalled.
>
> My nearly new Stebro exhaust got hit and is bent.  Anyone know if these
are
> repairable and how?
>
> Any advice on what to keep before the car goes to the scrap yard?  Anyone
> interested in parts (many new ones on this car), please let me know
> off-list, I'd save them and you can have them for nominal cost.
>
> I got pushed into the car in front of me, causing minimal damage.
However,
> the insurance says I could be held partly responsible for causing damage
to
> the car in front of me.  I was keeping a safe distance, but how can I
prove
> it?  My line of thinking is that the severity of damage at the back
clearly
> shows it was the impact that threw me into the car in front.  Any advice
on
> how to deal with insurance?
> Thanks.
>
> Radek
> 88 90Q (no more)
> 91 V8Q 5-sp.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 13:28:30 -0400
> From: "Cody Forbes" <cody at 5000tq.com>
> Subject: Re: 1988 90 Quattro rear-ended and totalled in Canada
> To: "Radek" <radek at istar.ca>, <quattro at audifans.com>
> Message-ID: <003201c68733$231f1800$6601a8c0 at nuvolari>
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> Radek wrote:
> > Hello group;
> >
> > I got rear-ended here in the Ottawa area a couple of days ago. <snip>...
> > Insurance appraiser says the car is most
> > likely totalled.
> > Radek
> > 88 90Q (no more)
> > 91 V8Q 5-sp.
> >
>
> Well as for the exhaust being bent, the bent section could be cut out and
> replaced with new pipe. You may want to look into if your insurance
company
> has a buy-back policy. Sometimes when a car is totaled they will allow you
> to keep the car and still get some of the money. Another idea is to let
them
> take the car, then find out what scrap yard they sold it to and buy it
back
> from them for a few hundred bucks so you can part the car out. Usually the
> insurance company will frown upon obvious removal of parts after the
> accident, since they are buying you out of the car when it's totaled.
>
> BTDT with my white 5ktq that burned to the ground. I got the boost gauge,
> EFI unit and radio before they told me I couldn't take any mor unless I
> bought the car from them. I had planned on tracking the down to the
junkyard
> so I could buy it and take the beautiful pristine black leather sport
seats
> among other things (everything forward of the dashboard includind the dash
> itself was gone, but from the sterring wheel back it looked like nothing
> happened). I was busy and work, and when I called the scrapper they had
> already crushed it. Ouch.
>
> -Cody Forbes
> http://www.5000tq.com
> '86 5ktq
> '86 5k-t-q -Parts
> '86 5k-t-q
> '87 5ktq - Fast.
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 13:05:30 -0400
> From: Kurt Nolte <syncronized_turbo at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: 1988 90 Quattro rear-ended and totalled in Canada
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Message-ID: <4481C15A.4020907 at yahoo.co.uk>
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> Radek wrote:
> > Hello group;
> >
> > I got rear-ended here in the Ottawa area a couple of days ago.  On a
> > highway, a girl in a Tercel tried to squeeze into the right lane behind
me
> > at the moment the whole column started breaking.  She hit me pretty
hard.
> > The whiplash is healing, but the car is not good.  Driver-side rear
quarter
> > is damaged, including the longitudinal beam in the trunk that is partly
> > crushed.   Only the spare wheel kept the left fender in shape.
Insurance
> > appraiser says the car is most likely totalled.
> >
>
> Yowch. Sounds pretty totaled to me too, but I'm neither a collision
> expert nor an insurance appraiser.
> > Any advice on what to keep before the car goes to the scrap yard?
Anyone
> > interested in parts (many new ones on this car), please let me know
> > off-list, I'd save them and you can have them for nominal cost.
> >
> The drive train? Get another Quattro and you'd have a nice set of spares
> in case you needed them. Engine, any good mounts left, fuel tank,
> unbroken glass, front doors if they're still undamaged, seats, interior
> trim (especially dash panels, as there's probably a market for them
> somewhere where it's sunny and UV radiation is damaging), wheels...
> yeah, I've stripped a few cars going to the crusher before. And I'm a
> packrat.
>
> Unfortunately, I was usually stripping them for friends of mine, and
> didn't get to keep all the parts. We once let a '68 Mustang that had
> been rear-ended and totaled go to the crusher with only the basic frame
> and rear body panels still on it. Everything else was sold off. Owner
> made almost five grand off of the parts.
> > I got pushed into the car in front of me, causing minimal damage.
However,
> > the insurance says I could be held partly responsible for causing damage
to
> > the car in front of me.  I was keeping a safe distance, but how can I
prove
> > it?  My line of thinking is that the severity of damage at the back
clearly
> > shows it was the impact that threw me into the car in front.  Any advice
on
> > how to deal with insurance?
> >
>
> Sounds like the accident that totaled my sister's Kia. Four car
> collision: Expedition, Saturn sedan, her Sportage, and a mid-90's
> Ranger. She got hit by the Ranger, was plowed into the Saturn, which
> pushed it up under the Expedition's rear bumper. The Saturn, her Kia,
> and the Ranger were all totaled. The Expedition got off with only a new
> bumper needed.
>
> The police ruled it the Ranger driver's fault after consulting with
> collision experts and Accident Investigators, and the Insurance Company
> didn't challenge it. They've been pretty reasonable from what I've seen;
> keep your fingers crossed, make sure you tell them the truth and don't
> try to fudge, and hope for the best is all I can say.
>
> Best of luck to you,
> -Kurt
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