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I am sure there was an estimate done for repairs before it was deemed totaled. If you can get your hands on that, you will have a better idea for parts, and assume you would do the labor yourself. These are all brand new parts on a new car, so they are more expensive than a 10 year old car...Wrecked cars are usually more trouble than they are worth. If the airbags hadn't deployed, I would say that would be a better deal.
 
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chisai88 said:
I am sure there was an estimate done for repairs before it was deemed totaled. If you can get your hands on that, you will have a better idea for parts, and assume you would do the labor yourself. These are all brand new parts on a new car, so they are more expensive than a 10 year old car...Wrecked cars are usually more trouble than they are worth. If the airbags hadn't deployed, I would say that would be a better deal.
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Yea that's true about the airbags


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Run the other direction...very fast.

Aside from the extra cost of the new parts, and the possible bent frame.....think of your time. What's your time worth? That will take a LONG time to fix..and then your title will still say 'salvage/rebuilt'. So no one's going to want to touch it unless you REALLY discount the price.

Unless you're 'in the business' of doing this sort of thing...meaning you have the tools, the facilities, the knowledge, the access to parts...this is a disaster waiting to happen.
 
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Ohiodriver said:
Run the other direction...very fast.

Aside from the extra cost of the new parts, and the possible bent frame.....think of your time. What's your time worth? That will take a LONG time to fix..and then your title will still say 'salvage/rebuilt'. So no one's going to want to touch it unless you REALLY discount the price.

Unless you're 'in the business' of doing this sort of thing...meaning you have the tools, the facilities, the knowledge, the access to parts...this is a disaster waiting to happen.
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And if he was he wouldn't be asking our opinion.

Disaster waiting to happen.
 
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If you want to build a Mk7 race car, this would be pretty good for that as long as it is mechanically sound. A lot of the things that are worries on your $30k daily driver set up for racing become non-issues on the $7k dedicated race machine.
 
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