pimpjuice

Sadly, the beast is no more. She was totaled on April 7th. I will be back because I have a metric butt-ton of parts still on the shelf for an E-55 (180ASP pulley, looped fuel rail, injectors and the list goes on)

What I need help with is finding comparable vehicles for the insurance company. Being my car had a salvage title; they need to find others like mine to give it an actual cash value.

Right now all they have is what they got from a few local dealerships and all they did was take the NADA value and cut by 50%, which is hot garbage. The appraiser said my car was in "Very Good" condition, which is unheard of for 90% of the cars out there. I could only find 1 salvage vehicle that was rebuilt and it was for 19k. They said it was an outlier and needed more.

So my request is:

If anyone owns, sold, can check locally for a 2003/2004 E55 AMG with a salvage title that was rebuilt, PLEASE send me the information. If I can get a few together it will help me out tremendously! I will need the VIN or article to provide so they can pull the title and prove it is in fact salvage.

Before I bought this car I called USAA and asked how much it hurt the value of my car to have a branded title, they sent an appraiser out and said only about 10%. They lied. I would have second thoughts to purchase a salvage vehicle unless the price was right and I would own it forever...but this is a Pain in the ***!

berti_00

sorry to hear that... good luck on your quest for another one

Exotic-metal55

Real sorry to hear about your ride. There are a lot of salvage titles out there, so should not be to hard to find the info.

pimpjuice

You would think so but I can't find any!!

Sir-Boost-a-Lot

iTrader: (1)

Is it your insurance co. that is paying for the car or was there another driver at fault?

3BNick

I own an 06 that was a prior salvage and I went through the system to get a rebuilt title. If needed, I can PM my info to you. I will tell you, I bought my car for real short money for an 06 with 71k on it.

shardul

iTrader: (1)

50% of NADA value the the rule of thumb.
If you can get 6k to 10k for the car consider your self lucky

E55Greasemonkey

I was gonna say about $12k, but $10k may be more realistic. How many miles on your car?

jonnyc

this one has been for sale for a couple of months.even though it has very low miles I think it's overpriced by $3k-$4k.
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/4432717795.html

Enigma94

I'd have to agree. Maybe more along the 8-12k range but the guy who told you it only effected the price by 10% was smoking something for sure.

StevE55//AMG

This guy's is salvaged. Hope I helps.
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/4432717795.html

TheVazha

Sorry to hear about your misfortunes. Thank God, you are ok. In the end, you can always replace your car. Next up will be something better, it always works out like that!

Also, a list price has 0 to do with actual value. I'd love to get $45K for my CLS but it's just not in the cards, you know what i mean?

pimpjuice

Its my insurance and they are offering 10,582...Thanks for all the help and kind words. it was the first accident I have ever been in and my 7 yr old daughter was with me. We are all ok, no injures in either vehicle, no air bag deployment...actually i was surprised they totaled mine. Ill post a pic later.

shardul

iTrader: (1)

nice
accept their offer!

Sir-Boost-a-Lot

iTrader: (1)

I bet they'll sell it back to you for next to nothing. You can probably make another 10k by parting it out.

pimpjuice

I would but I owe 4300 and I have no garage space to part it out. It only has 69k on it and the direct quote from the appraiser "Not even dust in the engine compartment"

My garage is being utilized for my 1986 hotrod build now. 383 stroker is about to get redone again.

I am on my way right now to look at a nice old school 1997 Dodge 2500 Cummings. One owner, 113k odo, 4x4, bone stock for 11k. I may have found my beast mode tow vehicle.

Keep an eye out, I may start selling all the new parts I have on the shelf for the E55, but right now I will hold onto them becaus ein the next few years...there will be another

kompressede

See what the buy out is? and you may just find someone that will pick the car up from you?

RedBullJnky

Very sorry to hear and glad everyone is okay! Good luck to you!

3BNick

I will gladly support your hot rod build by relieving you of the extra E55 parts! Seriously, sorry you lost the ride. I hope you get another soon and come back even faster.

pimpjuice

Oh...the newer one will be faster for sure...Mine was in the low 11s with a tune, belt wrap, headers, split cooling with EC HE,secondary cat deletes, Eurocharge Tune....the next one will have, looped fuel rail, 550CC injectors, tune, headers, trunk tank, HE, Supercharger pulley, 180ASP crank pulley, Belt wrap....and maybe a few more things...hehe.

Thanks for all the support! I will still hang aroun on the forum. after 4 yrs of wrenching on my own car I may be able to help here and there. Plus you guys are like family now

RBJ, the hood was almost salvagable and I was going to pass it to ya...but it was crutched up on the front lip and the appriaser jacked it up more when they had to force it open to get a look at the engine bay...sorry bro