[s-cars] 1992-1994 S4 #'s imported url?

[John Cunningham]

Nice. 

"your car running was worth only $7k but as a total wreck is still worth $5k" 

Re the blue book quoting yes they do use that but KBB is famously biased in favor of insurance companies and car dealerships. Ever notice how silly low private sale and trade-in are and how high the dealer-sale prices are on some cars?  Those are all for the paying KBB customers that keep the lights on... And of course then the system becomes self fulfilling "gee KBB says your car is only worth X, so we do the deal and now that low price goes into the system to reinforce it for the next guy". A further distortion that the dealers and ins cos love is that private sales are often under-reported (not all sales captured) and under-stated (buyers wanting to avoid sales taxes).  

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On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:03, jpb3 <jpburns3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good luck buying it back.  I had the exact similar situation, rear ended
> left rear frame rail damage, but at the time (3-4 years ago) the insurance
> adjuster couldn't find any com parables for sale (95.5) in their "system"
> but based their buyback # on 2 parts cars they had in their "system" that
> were over $5K each.  I tried to get them to total it for the $7K they were
> offering and let me buy it back for cheap but they said they couldn't let
> me buy it back for less than $5K.  So for the $2K difference I didn't want
> a car with a salvage title and a $4K repair job.
> 
> I ended up making them repair it, cost $4600.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Nathaniel Belo <nathan at license2sell.com>wrote:
> 
>> I got rear-ended by my buyer (I'm a real estate broker) in her 2005 MBZ
>> CLK 320 $12,000 damage fixable.  Mine $6,500 to fix so it's a total and
>> State Farm wants to give me $2,900 for my '92 S4 Pearl Ecru w/CGR 6-speed,
>> IA III+, H&R's w/Bilstein Sports, Samco Red, 2Bennett BRBK 4-pot Brembos.
>> We are both insured with State Farm.  They had to order a VIR and I spoke
>> to the claims rep and maybe will have to do an appraisal.  I told State
>> Farm find me the car for $2,900 in the same shape and buy it for me.
>> 
>> Where is the url that has where the # of these cars were imported to North
>> America?
>> 
>> Nathan Belo
>> Seattle
>> 
>> BTW- I'm buying the car back, she drives straight and right rear frame
>> rail damage that can be pulled out and fixed without any pain necessary.
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