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Posted by Matt (93SE) on June 06, 2002 at 13:57:55:
In Reply to: that stinks ---> posted by Mikey P on June 06, 2002 at 13:43:59:
show the insurance company the huge list of mods (which aftermarket parts were covered on an insurance rider in my case)..
so I claimed all the custom parts and it brought up the value of the car by $2000 (which would have been a fair value for a STOCK max)..
so then when we settled that, I bought the car back and parted it out. I've made enough money off spare parts to recover the cost of buying it back, and this way I had all the time I needed to remove my mods.
: very sorry about your car. how did it happen? does the insurance company have it already? if not you have some options. first of all they will pay you for some of your mods if you can show they weren't maintenence, but rather things you did extra to your car. They gave me the money for 75% of my eibachs/tokikos 6 months after I bought them in a group buy for my first maxima which was totaled. that was great because I didn't even have them on the car yet :) you need to have reciepts. if you keep the car they won't give you any money towards mods, only book value, and they won't give you the tax on your car. if it were me I would let them take the car but take as much as you feel comfortable with off the car. you could claim the tokikos and eibachs and tehn swap them to someone else for their stock ones. the car is going to a junkyard so the insurance company won't be checking for the mods that you claim.