How expensive would this be?
03-24-2016, 01:59 PM
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How expensive would this be?
So I recently ran over an island taking a turn way too fast and also his the sign in the middle. Ruined my passenger side CV axle, bent the lower control arm etc. Fixed all this. Then my motor mount adapter broke and i fixed this. Car is fully operational now. But it isnt very nice to look at since I obliterated that sign. Body work needed would cost over a grand I'm sure.
So I'm debating a couple options. First being just selling this car for about a couple grand under KBB value after I buy a new bumper thats all chipped up. 2007 LSJ KBB is around $6-7k. Its mostly stock with only ~48k miles on the original engine and interior is a solid 7/10. Previous owner might have wrecked it and not reported it because there's A LOT of bondo all around the car but Carfax is clean. Couldn't tell when I originally bought it but a lot of it is starting to crack now. After I sell I'd use that money on a down payment of another car or just buy a little used Honda most likely since I want to get more into building.
Second option I was thinking about would be to try and find another SS cobalt with a blown engine and just swap mine into it since it has such low mileage. But I'm not really sure how much it would cost or what other factors play into swapping the engines as I'm sure its not as simple as plug and play.
What do you guys think?
So I'm debating a couple options. First being just selling this car for about a couple grand under KBB value after I buy a new bumper thats all chipped up. 2007 LSJ KBB is around $6-7k. Its mostly stock with only ~48k miles on the original engine and interior is a solid 7/10. Previous owner might have wrecked it and not reported it because there's A LOT of bondo all around the car but Carfax is clean. Couldn't tell when I originally bought it but a lot of it is starting to crack now. After I sell I'd use that money on a down payment of another car or just buy a little used Honda most likely since I want to get more into building.
Second option I was thinking about would be to try and find another SS cobalt with a blown engine and just swap mine into it since it has such low mileage. But I'm not really sure how much it would cost or what other factors play into swapping the engines as I'm sure its not as simple as plug and play.
What do you guys think?
03-24-2016, 04:11 PM
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Car that's been wrecked twice won't be worth much at all. Plus it has obvious signs of bad body work done. Who knows if they hacked a structural repair also.
Clean Cobalt's are already worth nothing.
I'm almost positive insurance would of wrote it off.
Clean Cobalt's are already worth nothing.
I'm almost positive insurance would of wrote it off.
03-24-2016, 06:28 PM
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Thats why im leaning towards the second option.
Eh. With the bondo all cracking its too uneven.
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