Wrecked 10 Series, what to take off before salvaged?
 

So last Wednesday I unfortanately wrecked my 10 Series. Insurance totaled it but i have the opportunity to "get personal items" from it. Sooooo whats easily unbolted and has value that I can sell here? Obviously the headlights, fog lights, interior pieces etc etc.

that's a pretty girlfriend move to try and strip easy takeoffs from a totaled insurance car to sell for a quick dime.. then again, I never joined the Marines and am a girlfriend apparently ;)

Easily unbolted? Not much, really. The headlights, like you named.

Also in for the USMC jokes. They're the best.

are they really going to let you take things out of the car?? i know its totaled and the parts could be used somewhere else, wouldnt you have to buy back the car first, then strip it?

but a buddy of mine wrecked is old SRT4 and i went with him where the car was being help and we were stripping parts off of it, insurance adjuster told us, for every part we take off, the same part has to go back

Personal items means shit you own, not parts of the car......jesus

take the shift knob and be all emotional about it like the Subaru commercials.

Its totaled. Until USAA pays the loan I still own the car and USAA is paying to store it there.

Bring on the Grunt jokes, I can take em!!!

I own the car, therefore its all personal to me. Definitely crying over the shift knob.

You own it via a loan.

Until you pay off the loan, it's legally owned by whomever the lienholder is.

-alex

If you have a loan on the car you don't own the car. Whoever financed effectively owns it until you have the title in hand.

Take whatever you want but don't be surprised when the salvage company bills you for the missing parts.

That's like agreeing to sell a car, and before transferring over title you take off as many items on the car that you can before handing it over to the other person even though you have agreed to the sale

oh wait..

Ya, I have no idea about California but here the written off car belongs to the insurance company and must be left as it was at the time of the assessment. Sooo...if you were really fast and got the stuff off before the adjuster came out and he didn't object when he saw them missing then sure take some parts. After he has agreed to the write off (whether payment has been received or not) the car as it sits is theirs. Not only would they take the value of the parts you removed off their payment they would do it at full retail and include the labour even though you know bloody well they are not putting them back. The salvage company makes their money off the good parts so they are not going to pay for a car with them all missing.

Gotcha, thanks. Ill be selective of what i grab then!

The main reason im going anyways is to unmarry my OFT

"Honest I have no idea what happened to the engine and transmission. They must have fallen out while being towed"!

What happened (if you care to share as we all have a morbid curiosity when one get wrecked)?

Hey man that episode of King of the Hill really pulled on the heart strings with that.. Every new car I get seems to have a different shift pattern so I have never been able to do it.. :(

Take the crickets! Don't FORGET the crickets!!!!

You need the shift pattern? And here I thought highly of you up till now!

Do tell, how did it get totaled?

I called one of my friends over at USAA and let them know.

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I surely will.

Total **** move, lol.

After some spirited driving with the OFT flash on my way home i was driving normal, braked before going thru a turn, as im going thru the turn a deer bolts in front of me, i braked and swerved to avoid, ended up getting sideways and hitting a tree off the side of the road.

Pics here: http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84356

Holy crap! Deer have accounted for many of these cars. Ironic that they had one jump in front when they were filming the commercials.

Dumbass
 

Surely you're not serious?

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I'll swap the climate controls you have for my basic ones :)

Well Deer hate me anyways, theyre just so tasty. The Deer Grapevine put a hit out on me!

Probably more along the line of we tend to take back roads at a higher speed then other cars but ya there could be a personal vendetta as well!

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Definitely the Vendetta. Its a blood feud at this point. Im definitely going to murder a bunch of deer in 2015. Im going to sell my OFT to buy a freezer to fill with the spoils of my war against the Deer population of Northern California.

Take the Ecu out and sell it MaxProfit!!!

Did they tell you how much it would be if you bought it back from them? It'd probably better if you just did that, got what you want out of the car, then sold the rest for parts.

1st off: Thank you for your service.

Next: really? Do you want the possible headache if they come back at you re: mysterious missing parts? Is it really worth it?

Move on. Take the money and get another car.

Why do people feel the need to thank service members for their service? Not like it's conscription.

Amen to that.. half of my family is in the service and I thank them by being an upstanding individual that supports them and the community in which I live, but we don't have to go out of our way to say "thank you for your service" to others like us... like their duty and activities are above, say, a Firefighter or a Paramedic..

Always made me feel VERY uncomfortable when I was in uniform and someone would thank me. The only time I appreciated it was when some very, very old man hobbled up to me and said "Thank god, the Guns. Thanks for serving". Very cool to have someone recognize me as an artilleryman, rather than their good deed for the day.

So now what if they were aftermarket parts you want to take back? Could you swap them back to the old stock ones you have in the garage before they haul the car away?

duh.

I've actually pondered this. Thing is, where the hell would you do it? In the middle of the scrap yard?

Yep!

I took a 4.5" rubi express lift kit, custom rock armor and bumpers, exhaust, and other suspension bits off of my first vehicle, a 1999 Cherokee that I rolled at Reiter pit... Did everything in the yard. Brought all my tools. Ended up coming out of it very handsomely and lived good for my first couple years of college

Ugh. That sounds awful. I dislike doing shit on my garage floor haha

I say take that sweet JDM sticker off your gas cap


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