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Pretty straight for a write off. Been contemplating buying back, but don't think it'd be worth it unless I got it real cheap.. A wrecker would clean up on it as everything is only 20,000km old and pretty much immaculate, but for the work involved I don't think it's viable for me.. Big items would probably be easy enough to sell, engine transmission wheels hard lid etc, but the rest would take forever to sell to break even and then make some money, which probably wouldn't be enough to justify the effort 20180423_145438.jpg

Had to do some work in the city yesterday, got back to the car at 3:35pm to find it towed and could see it down the road.. RIP $405 (Glad it was the work car and not my STI at least)

Expensive 5 minutes (turned to clearway at 3:30pm)

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Ran over something, bent k frame bent transmission bracket, dented exhaust ripped the heat shield, slight gouge in the rear bar and probably broke some clips on the rear bar as it came out the back.. They said they were gonna fix it.. Few weeks later when it was supposed to be ready I get a call saying it damaged the floor and might be written off, 2 weeks after that it was gonna be repaired, another week or 2 later and it was written off... Damaged transmission tunnel etc etc

56 minutes ago, UNR33L said:

Had to do some work in the city yesterday, got back to the car at 3:35pm to find it towed and could see it down the road.. RIP $405 (Glad it was the work car and not my STI at least)

Expensive 5 minutes (turned to clearway at 3:30pm)

kings way?

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