Bought a Honda…that’s when the problem started

[Anthony Cordeiro]

So I decided it was time to buy a “beater” and take it easy on the newer car and not apply so many miles. So I searched good ol’ craigslist and found a 1994 Honda Civic EX.

Perfect car, cost me $600. Runs and drives (sometimes lol), owned the car for 4 days and this happens

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What your looking at it the result of a 30+ yr old male, roaming my neighbor hood at 2 am, slashing people’s tires and vandalizing their property for fun, My car and 4 others were hit. He was arrested after being caught trying to vandalize the last car.

So now insurance came down and deemed the car a total loss. I’m kinda pissed, but I guess everything happens for a reason. I now have to bother my wife for rides back and forth to work once more !

Any input on how to recoupe some of my money lost ? Is it worth sewing someone ? I’d probably never see the money from them. Insurance is cutting me a check for $600 for the car

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[twiggy]

Is the insurance co letting you keep the car? IF so, looks like you could buy four new tires and drive it. It will be ugly. But drivable

[Hokiedad4]

It’s a $600 car and you had comprehensive insurance on it? Take the money and the car and fix it.

[zero]

Never accept their first offer.

Do what u/Hoakiedad4 says. Take the money and fix the car. 185/65r14s can be had CHEAP, even new. Because really the car as such has no physical value beyond scrap. But as transportation it’s obviously valuable to you.

I had a friend who’s Yukon got written off because of hail damage, somewhere around $4-5000. Ooh there’s small dents everywhere, but there was no way he was getting anything near as nice for the price. So ya, he took the money.

[Aaron MacDonald]

It’s a 1994 Honda Civic, they would be dime a dozen at the scrap yard. I would let the insurance company write it off, then offer to buy it back from them and fix it. You could probably buy it back and fix it for $600. I know if it was me and my car was vandalized and written off I would be buying that car back and fixing it myself, it’s hard to find reliable, cheap transportation these days and I would rather buy my old problems back than buy somebody else’s problems and start over again.

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