Yeh there's a white one up here with a little less km on it than that one for about the same price.
Repairable Write Off
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Litenbror
Eats Squid
Had a car stolen years ago and when they found it at a train station the cops wouldn’t let us get in. Told us to identify it was ours but couldn’t get in as quite often they would stick needles in the seats when they were dumping it.door previously repaired or?/ how do you do that?
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hopefully doesn't need windscreen... but do wonder what is in the "sharps/Biohazard" sticker... needles?
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Other than that.. and the fingerprint dust.... same damage as any hire car?
Nice cars though
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oldcorollas
Levin the moment
Flow-Rider
Burner
The dirty chunts usually stick them down the air vents in case the cops pull them up because they'll end up with more charges as the needles need to be disposed of in a sharp container.
dancaseyimages
Mountain bike pornographer
Canberra used to be good for repairable write offs, the 'Great Hail Storm' made a lot of awesome deals on cars in the $250 range the only needed a windscreen and rip the carpet out, leave the hail dents and a quick inspection to get some new rego.
Ive had a few Subarus that were repairable write offs, they were cheap so if your spending a third of what it cost new once you factor in your own hours to do the repairs then you can do pretty well (The ACT rego inspection at that time just needed us to get the radiator supports and front sections with 4mm of factory).
3rd party is the insurance to get as a lot are finicky now about re-insuring cars once they've already been deemed an economic write off.
Just check around the struts and the major points (some people send things off road with no idea and end up cracking things underneath which isnt fun at all to fix or find out after purchase) and make sure to set a limit when you make the offer/bid (lots of people get emotional on auction day), some cars are worth more to the parts places these days especially when located in Melb or Sydney yards (think Brembos and STI parts, 6 speed manuals on a Subaru, wreckers love to get them for crazy amounts because the market is there especially when airbags havent gone off etc so that loom isn't fried under the seats.)
And make sure it hasnt been stacked and racked by the forklift, some cars end up with whacky bends underneath from being forklifted around the warehouse without the keys. Not so fun when your skirt falls off or something is cracked underneath that you dont want to fly off on the first drive around the block.
And the last one would be smokers cars, sometimes they look pretty neat but the smell of smoke is hard to get out of cars without doing some decent replacement, seems to get into the plastics these days not just the old headlining and seats replacement unfortunately.
steve jobs' pancreas
Eats Squid
I received a payout for the hail damage to my land cruiser, had a local dent guy pull the dents in the bonnet, left the roof alone.
Can‘t get comprehensive insurance for it now, bummer but I wasn’t going to write it off, no way it would have been enough to replace it
Can‘t get comprehensive insurance for it now, bummer but I wasn’t going to write it off, no way it would have been enough to replace it
Flow-Rider
Burner
Unless you're in the industry or you have good contacts, I would forget all about it. I worked in one of the few shops at the time in Brisbane that did safety certificates and held a roadworthy licence. The amount of fruitloops that turned up with auction cars wanting a false safety certificate was out of this world, some would even threaten you when the car failed. In Qld it's a criminal offence to write a false safety certificate and the penalty could result in jail time at the worst.
I saw all types of fuckwittary, pigeon shit repair welds on chassie rails, another one was swapping all the running gear from a donor car (most likely stolen) onto the auction car and fucking the spring clock on the steering wheel airbag and then removing the air bag bulb so there's no flashing of the bulb. Most of the cars were unprofessionally worked on and they were a POS, loose parts and torn engine mounts glued back together with sikaflex.
I also did a short stint in one of the biggest auto auctions in Brisbane and test drove cars and wrote reports. Some of the things I saw were very unethical, cars that went under water stripped down and cleaned of all the silt, I'd write reports with gearboxes slipping then get in the car to drive it through the auction and the report was totally changed. Cars that were illegally repoed were hidden from owners until the statutory time was up so that they could auction the car on them. Most cars sold well over what they were worth and the things I saw just made me sick working in the place, it's full of lowlife pricks.