Totaled 96 SE-R

[David Pertuz]

Wade,

I'm glad your son is OK, but I'm sorry your car got totalled. If it were
mine I would definitely pull all the aftermarket parts I could off of it,
but wheels and suspension will be tough when it comes to getting it hauled
away. I don't think you'll likely get any trouble from your insurance
company (I've never dealt with USAA, though - I'm on State Farm) but if you
want to keep the parts you may be best off agreeing to a salvage value and
keeping it, then stripping everything you want. I dealt with something
similar when my dad died in 2005. He had had a minor off-road excursion
shortly before he died and the car appeared to be largely OK, until I
discovered that the transmission case was cracked. State Farm totalled it,
and I pulled off a few of the easy things - JWT ECU, strut bar - before
they towed it away. I would have loved to keep the wheels but obviously
couldn't.

David
Chicago

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 8:56 AM Wade Jackson <srwadet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Son rear ended an SUV on a slick road this week.  The front end is
> crushed, and both air bags went off.  I assume the insurance company will
> total it.  What do I do now?  The car is full of aftermarket parts and was
> in great shape.  The chassis has 307k miles, but the B14 motor only has 20k
> miles and the transmission about 70k miles.  Is it worth parting
> out?  Anybody care about these cars anymore?  I searched the internet and
> only found one for sale in the nation. Could not find any for sale on the
> forums either.  I still have my B13 race car so I could take off some parts
> to use for spares.  Unfortunately, the race car has not been run in 7
> years. How would I even get the B14 to the junk yard without wheels and
> suspension.
>
>
> Anybody have any advice?
>
>
>
> Wade
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