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Old 05-10-2019, 04:15 PM   #29
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Or, you could have a perfectly fine (even rebuilt) 2 year old car and $8,000 in your pocket.
Yup. While I technically do have 25k or so to spend, if this specific brz checks out with my mechanic friend, then why not save 8-10k and spend some on mods or other non-car things? For example, if I were to buy a new limited, I would still be taking the front bumper off and replacing it with an older one costing idk how much. IF the frame is Ok and the bumper was installed well, then what's the risk?
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Old 05-10-2019, 04:23 PM   #30
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The risk is you have no idea how to work was performed. Maybe it looks fine, I think the body gaps look terrible. The bumper and fenders/trim are wrong, the only reason to back date a front end is to save money on the repair.

Maybe it looks fine. Maybe nothing rattles or falls off. How does it respond in the next front end collision? Was the SRS module replaced or reset in a garage by a dude named Vlad?

Salvage cars are cheap for a reason. I would hesitate to finance anything with a salvage title and rely on it as a daily. Cash out of pocket for a second car? Sure. But it's going to be sub $10k.
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Old 05-10-2019, 05:53 PM   #31
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I'd run away from spending any money on that junk chassis.
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Old 05-10-2019, 08:07 PM   #32
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Or, you could have a perfectly fine (even rebuilt) 2 year old car and $8,000 in your pocket.
8k isn’t worth the hassle of having a rebuilt car for me.. I’d rather a new car with no bad history ... a clean title 17 is only maybe a grand or more at this price.
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8k isn’t worth the hassle of having a rebuilt car for me.. I’d rather a new car with no bad history ... a clean title 17 is only maybe a grand or more at this price.
Me too in fact I personally would not even buy used but it doesn’t make it bad for the right person. I don’t see many 17s going for anywhere near that price. It is also the asking price not the sold price so he could get it even cheaper.
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Buy this one from these guys for much cheaper....

2013 w74k, Auto, Rebuild documented here, all recalls done, no shortcuts taken.
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Buy ours for much cheaper....

2013 w74k, Auto, Rebuild documented here, all recalls done, no shortcuts taken. $8,500
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Please follow member classified rule#2 or ichi will delete the thread.
LOL, the whole rebuild thread is here...it's legit.

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I'm not really looking into selling this car anytime soon, it will actually be my first car purchase so I plan on keeping it for a while.
forewarning, my first, second, AND third vehicles, i said that about all of them.

1st ate itself
2nd got boring
3rd got wrecked in 4 months.

keep your options open.
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LOL, the whole rebuild thread is here...it's legit.

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I know. I have visited it frequently.
That Dave guy is a bit shady though.
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forewarning, my first, second, AND third vehicles, i said that about all of them.
I said it about my 1st thru 15th.
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I said it about my 1st thru 15th.
i've learned to change the wording. now, cars "fit my current needs, and i've got no reason to get rid of them."

it's also part of the reason i named this 4th car "chance the goldfish"(i've never named my cars before), to remind me that cars are entirely replaceable consumer goods manufactured in large quantities.
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It's an automatic, the automatic model gets the old intake. As for the bumper, it was probably cheaper so they fitted it with the older style.
New, they are the same price.. and if some trim was good the 17+ one would be cheaper due to less trim purchases required.

But the seller probably buys parts cars and just had a rear end wrecked car elsewhere and threw whatever they had laying around on it instead. Fenders have VIN tags also so used fenders probably.
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most cars aren't going to total from "bumper damage" . Especially being a year or two old.
that does not equate to 75% of the cars value. I would suspect more than bumper damaged happened.
the vin tags appear to still be on the fenders in pics, I would check them and make sure they match the car and then make sure they don't appear to be re-glued on.
Do some serious investigating. Again, it shouldn't have totaled from bumper damage.
It wasn't just bumper damage. Fuse box has obvious stress damage from the impact on the front right.
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