On 12/18/07, The Bus Depot <vanagon@busdepot.com> wrote: > > > The Hankooks held up well! > > True. The tree flattened the Vanagon like a pancake and even partiially > sunk > it into the gravel, but with all that sudden weight slamming down on them > the Hankooks didn't even go flat. Now that's load capacity!
Beautiful. Bumpers, power mirrors, alloy wheels, Hankooks... all is not lost. Just don't let them sell the remains to you for too much money. The common belief that the higher your settlement price makes the salvage value higher is not always true. Whilst it is the insurance company's to offer the salvage to you priced at a percentage of the total loss paid, like most things in life, it is negotiable. I was once offered $1800 for my wreck and got them to settle for $50. In other words, I bought remains of my vehicle for $50 which was eventually still worth $2500 to someone else. All in a days work.
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