[Vwdiesel] Car totaled

[ralph meyermann]

Whats the buy back cost???

Velma 82 1.9L AAZ td westy
On Jan 8, 2014 5:06 PM, "Travis ." <tgott at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I went to start the car Monday morning. It was just as cold as the
> previous Monday morning. I work night shift so it was cold (-25, I have
> started as cold as -35 in montana). I tried it twice. It turned over but
> not fast enough to start. I went back inside to call my wife. Then someone
> offered to help jump me. Then my boss came in and said my car was running.
> This all took around 10 minutes. I ran outside and saw what appeared as
> white smoke or steam. Opened the hood and flames came out. Ran back inside
> and came back out (which took around a minute) with a Hologen extinguisher,
> opened the hood and put it out.
>
> Thinking the fuze block on top of the battery heated and started up.
> Pictures here
> http://s1203.photobucket.com/user/coalminer16/library/?sort=3&page=3
>
> I have $500 deductible through Statefarm. They said car is worth $8298.50
> minus my $500 is what I would get paid. I told them some of the things I
> did to the car (tinted windows, hitch - which they only gave $50 for, new
> tires - which need to be less then 1 month old I found out, etc). So
> basically they aren't giving me anything extra for adds on there  so I may
> be ripping things out. They said if I wanted I could find comparable
> vehicles but they had to be an 04 Golf within 500 miles and comparable
> miles. Well-there is only one that fits the bill that I can find, one more
> if you go outside the milage range at $9000 for a car with about 100K miles
> and $12000 for the other that is closer but has less options (and honestly
> I think is pretty high) both through craigslist. I can't find any others
> out there that match.
>
> My car is a 2004 Golf GLS with cold weather package. Never mind my own
> adds.
>
> They won't give me a price of buy back until I agree on a price of what it
> is worth. Only people telling my not to buy the car back is my extended
> family as they worry about working on electrical items. I do to but I know
> with a clean rust free body, working engine and tranny someone would have
> to buy it if I didn't mess with it even.
>
> What would it be worth in it's current state if I did buy it back to
> resell. I likely will attempt fixing though but I want to make sure I can
> justify buying it and having it sit there while fixing as I am out a car
> that can drive well now until the rabbits can come back out when the salt
> comes off the roads.
>
> Any other tips/thoughts. I really can't complain about the price they are
> offering for the car. I do know they took car of my father on his
> motorcycle accident pretty good. but when he asked to buy it back (rebuild
> engine and added 6th gear in the tranny) the price was so high it wasn't
> worth it-the rest of the bike was junk.
>
> Travis
>
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