Well, as some of you may know, my civic got stolen and found about 2 weeks ago. the insurance company gave it a salvage title and let me keep the car + gave me cash. im trying to decide whether i should fix it ($800 worth of parts) and sell it, or just sell it the way it is now.

its a clean car, i have a car detailing business and always kept the car very clean. it has 165,000 miles, runs awesome, 5 spd, a few dings here and there but overall looks great.

so i have 3 questions:

how much do you think i could get for it IF i bring it back to good condition and sell it(salvage title)?

how much could i get for it if i just leave it as is? (pics below) CAR RUNS AND DRIVES PERFECT, they only took cosmetic parts.

how much could i get if i parted it out?


in the condition the car is in the pics right below this, with a salvage title, how much do you think i could get for it? (chicago area)











and heres how it looks now:

i could invest the $800 to get it back to looking like it did before, but how much do you think i could get if i sold it in this condition below?

 

I`d give no more than $1500 for it...

But this should be in the sticky up top..

 

I bought my car back from insurance for $540 and have sold over $1300 worth of parts. It had driver QP and trunk damage from being hit by a truck.

 

Missing random body parts, salvage title? Good luck getting more than a grand for it. If it were my car, I'd replace the missing parts and keep it. Salvage title ruins any chance of getting a fair price for the car.

 

They where noobs the didnt take the airbag

 

Ever heard of VIN stamping?

 

if its only cosmetic then i say fix it.
i'm sure it has sentimental value to you, and if not, just explain the situation to a potential buyer and if they're really digging the car they would understand. i know guys that dont care for the title at all

 

Looking from the first picture on the driver side the car looked pretty mint but when the passenger side was shown it still doesn't seem like much was taken. Fender bumper cover and climate? Just keep it if you like the car I definitely would

 

fix it. keep it.

 

Keep it fix it drive it!

 

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Salvage or not, someone would buy it for a cheap little DD and drive the tires off it. Overall it looks to be in good shape. Paint, interior wise. I'd keep it.

 

As the others have said, keep it and replace the parts. Most of what they did appears to be simple stuff that a few minutes on Majestic Honda can fix! Deff don't let someone low ball you if you decide to sell it.

 

I'd say keep it and fix it as well. But it sounded like you wanted to get rid of it. You're not gonna really get anything out of selling it unless you fix everything. The only big problem I see with fixing it, is this.
But if you're set on getting rid of it, you can make a decent amount of money parting it out. I know I did.

 

Yeah I'm going to unplug everything else, but **** it lets cut this one... ******* theives.

That looks the like the radio harness. IF it is, it will be pretty simple to repair it now. Do it before you put the bezel back in.

 

Nope not really because im also a noob

 

Keep it!!

 

Keep it... I did. Mine was stolen 2weeks ago.. doesn't feel the same tho

 

get on marketplace...buy a climate control, fender, bumper and grill....and throw the other 500 in an alarm.

 

I actually have a mint 96-98 climate control/bezel. LMK if you're interested.

EDIT: wait just kidding I sold it the other day...