MarkR Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 As some of you are aware, my car was in an accident last month just as it was finished being converted to a 6 speed manual single GT35R turbo. I didn't even get to drive it after the conversion as the garage crashed it on the way to MOT station. There are about 20 miles on most of the parts including the single turbo components, cam and clutch as it was driven down the road during mapping and on the dyno, and that's it! The 6 speed manual was installed just before with new thrust bearings etc. I'm now putting it up for sale as a whole, as I can't face breaking it. If someone doesn't take the whole lot, then I'll be breaking it. I know I'll get more money for the parts etc but the amount of effort and time involved doesn't interest me much. The car had 66000 listed on the clock but the car was imported with 44000km (27340miles) and has done 22000 miles since. So in total 49000 miles. Here's a list of the parts as itemised for the insurance company (minus the labour costs). I have receipts for ALL the parts. NewEra Imports Deposit for car £1,001.55 Main car cost £10,560.13 Remainder on collection of car £4,264.00 Nic (Forum) HKS GT35R Single Turbo Kit on T04z manifold £2,490.00 Defi EGT BF White £138.00 Defi Link II £65.00 6 x PE 650 injectors £432.00 Genuine Top Secret Rear spoiler £611.83 HKS SSQV Blow Off Valve Kit £187.20 Genuine Toyota O2 sensor £85.28 Toyota Premium Horn Kit £47.84 Blitz LM Front Mounted Intercooler with hardpipes £938.82 HKS Valcon intake cam £1,110.38 EBAY Heat resistant intake gasket £17.40 Brembo Rear Calipers £142.00 HID Front lights £130.00 New facelift dash panel £79.00 New wipers £16.99 ENVYPERFORMANCE HKS Silent Hi Power Exhaust (swapped was RSR ExMag GTII) £449.99 19" Racing Hart Type CR and tyres (NO LONGER AVAILABLE) £2,500.00 Blitz Turbo Timer £86.31 2nd Decat Pipe £125.00 Blitz Powermeter ID - Black £161.93 DRIFTWORKS Driftworks Oil Cooler and magentic sump £189.81 2BarTuning(Ryan Griffiths) Solaris S6GP ECU £1,450.00 Solaris Boost solenoid and 3 bar map sensor £109.99 PaulFleming (Forum) Unorthodox Racing pulleys £114.00 PaulWhiffin (Whifbitz) Titan Motorsport anti-roll bars £341.00 K&N Airfilter £57.89 TRD gearbox mounts and Oil catch tank £485.33 Defi BF Boost gauge £214.00 VVTI Blitz harnesses £53.41 APR Cooling plate £123.05 Westley(Forum Group Buy) Bosch 044 fuel pump (from Wez) £170.00 Keron Pirie 6 Speed Getrag manual conversion kit £2,400.00 USA dealers Southbend Clutch £411.61 SPCHorsham(Wayne Field) Brembo Front Calipers - £900.00 BF Goodrich braided brake lines £62.10 DBA 4000 disks front and rear £425.00 Bilstein Shocks & lowering springs £400.00 HKS radiator cap £10.00 Oil filter and seal £27.24 Crank seal £45.83 Release bearing £58.52 Oil adaptor union £32.00 Fitting for sandwich plate to oil pipes £15.00 Heckler(Forum) White and Blue LED Dash conversion. £46.80 Car Audio Headunit: Pioneer with Bluetooth £410.48 Front: MB Quart 6.5 and tweeters £206.10 Rear: Pioneer 6" Replacements £52.98 SumoPower (through GVN Coachworks) Do-luck genuine late model front bumper £1,078.85 Do-luck genuine late model bonnet £1,523.08 Whifbitz(through GVN Coachworks) Brand New Toyota facelift headlights £492.16 SupraPower Innovate XD16 £192.50 Forum Clear Rear Quarter markers £20.80 Sparkplugs.co.uk NGK BKR8EIX plugs £46.85 MVP Aluminium dash rings (small) £77.75 Aem water Injection Kit & turbo blanket £348.00 RichStern (forum) New interior door cards £80.00 NBroomhead (forum) Boost plenum £43.85 SteveR 4" Intake pipe £30.00 Toyota Facelift Manual Gear Surround £112.79 Nicholas(Forum) Leather Facelift front Seats £400.00 Leather Rear Seats £100.00 TOTAL spent on parts - £39,000.42 I'm putting this up for sale for £13000 ONO. I realise this is quite steep but the manual gearbox, VVTI inlet cam, ECU and turbo kit alone are worth over £7.5K and this car can be broken to make more than that. The car also has OEM skirt/spats which aren't listed above. I obviously can't charge for the labour and love that has gone into this car and have recently spent a whole chunk of cash on the single build which I'll never get back. If you look on my build thread you can see all the effort that went into this, as well as some before pics here: http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=155492&page=6 Here are a few pics after the accident as well as a few videos of the mapping: [ATTACH]103237[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]103238[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]103239[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]103240[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]103241[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]103242[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]103243[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]103244[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]103245[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]103246[/ATTACH] pA5f-Rsw64Q cvHhzWRzLHE MUA6JWpcSfc SQn-cpG8JWI yFrjiFLAHY8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imi Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Sorry to see this thread buddy. Can you not get the car fixed, damage looks cosmetic? (other than the intercooler) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilicos Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I would kill my mechanic or get him to put it 100% right!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieP Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I know somebody that might be interested, ill send him the link now,first thing he will ask me is has it been registered as being in a accident? basically has the garages insurance company paid out on it? cat c or d etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkR Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 I know somebody that might be interested, ill send him the link now,first thing he will ask me is has it been registered as being in a accident? basically has the garages insurance company paid out on it? cat c or d etc? I'm not entirely sure Jamie. I got an offer of a payout today via email and the total payout I got was cash and minus the cost of the car (£13000) for salvage or for transfer to a new vehicle. Does that mean it will be recoded, as they said I was still the registered owner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkR Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 Sorry to see this thread buddy. Can you not get the car fixed, damage looks cosmetic? (other than the intercooler) Possibly bud, but I don't really need the headaches right now. I'd rather start again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imi Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Possibly bud, but I don't really need the headaches right now. I'd rather start again thats understandable, however it would be worth saving as a lot of hard work has gone into it and you are nearly there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTRickeh Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I didn't even get to drive it after the conversion as the garage crashed it on the way to MOT station. Nightmare! Sorry to hear about this mate You've clearly put a lot of time, effort and money into this car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradleyh_15 Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 not good to hear mate! as previously said I think if my mechanic had done that he would be putting it right or pushing up daisy's! if you do have to end up breaking it drop me a pm as I would be interested in some of the parts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I'm not entirely sure Jamie. I got an offer of a payout today via email and the total payout I got was cash and minus the cost of the car (£13000) for salvage or for transfer to a new vehicle. Does that mean it will be recoded, as they said I was still the registered owner? Sorry to sound like a numpty but have I got this right? They have offered a cash sum less £13000 which they/you perceive as being the current value of the car? If that is the case, what happens if you cannot sell for £13,000? What if you have to break the car? Who then pays for the time to do this? Personally, if it happened to me, I would want them to either make the car as was or give me a full pay out in cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j1mb0b1 Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Sorry to sound like a numpty but have I got this right? They have offered a cash sum less £13000 which they/you perceive as being the current value of the car? If that is the case, what happens if you cannot sell for £13,000? What if you have to break the car? Who then pays for the time to do this? Personally, if it happened to me, I would want them to either make the car as was or give me a full pay out in cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Totally gutted for you reading this thread. Best of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkR Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 Sorry to sound like a numpty but have I got this right? They have offered a cash sum less £13000 which they/you perceive as being the current value of the car? If that is the case, what happens if you cannot sell for £13,000? What if you have to break the car? Who then pays for the time to do this? Personally, if it happened to me, I would want them to either make the car as was or give me a full pay out in cash. I had also thought about this but then the parts would go somewhere unknown. I figured I'd offer the deal to the club first before exploring this avenue. They have said £13k (not my valuation) which is what I'd like back for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooley Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 it doesnt look like a lot to repair in all fairness but i can see where you are coming from with starting over....i was in a very similar predicament a few years back and seeing your pride and joy in that state really does make you want to just start over but even in its current state its still a stunning car witha hell of a lot of work gone into it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I had also thought about this but then the parts would go somewhere unknown. I figured I'd offer the deal to the club first before exploring this avenue. They have said £13k (not my valuation) which is what I'd like back for it. If it were me I would cut my losses now and take them up on the full cash offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzle Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 surely it should be the garage paying for fix or replacement?? is the 13000 offer cash, and u keep the car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imi Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 If it were me I would cut my losses now and take them up on the full cash offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Mark you have a pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T2 MSW Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 So sorry to see this bud, but im with CJ I would take the cash and not get invloved (obviously depends how much it is). Whats happened to the muppet that crashed it, I hope he is still not transporting cars to and from MOT stations??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 If the ins has paid out the car will be a cat d or c,I don't understand how come you are ending up having to sell the remains for that amount of money??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkR Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 If the ins has paid out the car will be a cat d or c,I don't understand how come you are ending up having to sell the remains for that amount of money??? This is what I received in an email from them... "..... We are prepared to make a settlement offer in the sum of £xxx, less the salvage figure of £13,000. As you are the registered keeper of the vehicle, you will retain the original vehicle to either dispose of to a salvage agent or retain for specialist parts to transfer onto a new vehicle....." Sounds a bit high to me too. What is my legal stance on this? Should I get a few quotes from salvage agents and send the quotes to them and ask for more cash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 This is what I received in an email from them... "..... We are prepared to make a settlement offer in the sum of £xxx, less the salvage figure of £13,000. As you are the registered keeper of the vehicle, you will retain the original vehicle to either dispose of to a salvage agent or retain for specialist parts to transfer onto a new vehicle....." Sounds a bit high to me too. What is my legal stance on this? Should I get a few quotes from salvage agents and send the quotes to them and ask for more cash? yep tell them to keep the car and forward you the extra £13000. not being funny but there are sorted single supra,s in mint condition for not much more than that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Is it your insurance company, their insurance company or the company that actually damaged the car themselves that are making that offer? Seems a touch convoluted to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkR Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 It's the company that damaged the car's insurance. I'm not sure if I'm "allowed" to dispute the settlement amount. The problem is that if I decide to not go down the Supra route again, then the parts aren't any use to me. I don't have anywhere to break it and store, and it'll take months. If I do go down the Supra route again but don't get a facelift or a VVTI then some of the parts won't fit and again I'm stuck with parts I have to sell which takes some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkR Posted December 31, 2009 Author Share Posted December 31, 2009 Maybe I should have a "Breaking Party". Advertise all the parts, get payment for them, and then arrange a day when the car is available, and everyone turns up and removes their own part.... kind of like ants on a dead bird Like this: http://www.revostock.com/Stock-Video-Footage/6127/Motorsports-Bare-Metal-Part-1.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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