The "pros" at the frame alignment shop tried twice to it back in specs. My uncle fixed an SN95 that was bent on both sides with a come-a-long and a strong steel beam. The costs to fix it were getting to be worth more than the car. Plus all the little things they wrote up. Even if it was straight, I wonder about its strength. The car is gone. I'm not spending the $14,395 the insurance company wants to buy it back. I can get another non-wrecked GT for that.
Wanting 14K doesn't make logical sense for buyback, because it's not worth that much anymore - it's wrecked. Maybe give them a call back and speak to someone else if you really want the car back. Explain the logic, and see what they say. Sorry for the hurtin'.
Insurance companies are the biggest rip-off artists in the world. Totally ridiculous. There's no way in hell the buyback on your stang is $14,000. Try 1,400, if that. Sounds like someone at the insurance company wants a new car. My 96 was $700, to give you an idea of buyback value. Don't let the insurance company bully you around and steal your car from you. Stand up for yourself. After all, you paid them all that money over the years to "protect" you, not rip you off.
I don't feel like writing a book, but my Mustang was written off as total loss in the last part of April. I hit a curb at 35mph swerving to miss a blind old man from Maryland in a four door sedan of some sort. The body shop started writing up all kinds of junk on the car that wasn't even effected by the crash. I already had slightly misaligned fenders and doors from the factory like most other 99-04 Mustangs have. The subframe and k-member mounting points were bent, so they totalled the car. The front bumper was okay. It just needed a little touch up paint. I didn't get to keep it. It doesn't look like much damage, but the wheel was pushed back into the fender, and the rim was nothing but hunks of metal. It didn't have much structural integrity for a factory wheel. View attachment 386219 View attachment 386220 View attachment 386221 View attachment 386222 View attachment 386223
I am going to buy a cheap little truck for now, and maybe get a 'Vette or a Boxster in a few months. I still like the Mustangs, but it is hard to find clean 02-04 GT's with low miles and good price. I still haven't ruled out an '03-'04 Cobra. I wouldn't mind an '01 Cobra, but those are as rare as rocking horse crap it seems. Mach 1's are too pricey IMO too. I can get an '03 Cobra for Mach 1 prices.
Do you have to try to offend people every time you post???
You are already wearing on the nerves of a lot of the other staffers here. I just gave you a infraction, I was considering giving you another vacation.
A few people have asked me why so expensive, not worth 14k etc., etc. Well, I currently live in Northern VA by Wash DC, and things here are uber expensive. Brand new '06 and '07 GT's Deluxe start at 30K, Shelby's no less then 50k, and Mach 1's in this area are in the 22-25k range. I am going to buy my next sports car somewhere in the US other than the east coast, because it will be cheaper and I can just drive it home. The shop rate at the body shop was in excess of $100/hr. These shops like gouging insurance companies or something.
I mean by expensive as Stangs have no money value. Wreck a Boxster and it totalled, but at least you have a bucket of valuable parts. Who buys stock Mustang parts? It'd cost more to ship them than what you could sale them for.