*******CASE CLOSED! RESOLVED*******

See post 12:45 PM 2/5/2008. Thank you Honda-Tech community!

Hey guys, well, my insurance came back with an estimate around 8800 for my salvage 98 Type R. The highest price type r they could find in San Diego radius was 12,292 which they adjusted for salvage and mileage, and came back with 8800. I have sent them 6 comparable type R's ranging from 13,500 to 21,000. unfortunately, because the ones I found were 2000-2001 R's they are not usable. her logic was a newer car would command more money. So I sent them a 97 for sale for 21,000, again it wasn't usable, but this time her logic wasn't the same. Apparently, I need to show them 98 type R's, or even 99's that are stock, and within san diego radius in order to make my case. Autotrader is dry right now. If anyone has a 98-99 for sale, please let me know so i can submit it as evidence. I am being screwed because of bad timing and not enough R's for sale. Please help if you can.


Modified by JackBurton at 12:47 PM 2/5/2008

 

Only thing I can find right now:
http://www.itrca.com/forums/vi...=9186

Ali

 

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http://www.itrca.com/forums/vi...=9186

Ali</TD></TR></TABLE>

eeesh... and that one's in sacramento.

i'd offer to put mine up for sale, but i would've put it up at 13-14k on autotrader. mine's a 98 near stock with about 120k on the odometer. PM me back if i can help in any way.

 

Thanks, i faxed this to them, but I doubt it will be usable because of the distance.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JackBurton &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Hey guys, well, my insurance came back with an estimate around 8800 for my salvage 98 Type R. The highest price type r they could find in San Diego radius was 12,292 which they adjusted for salvage and mileage, and came back with 8800. I have sent them 6 comparable type R's ranging from 13,500 to 21,000. unfortunately, because the ones I found were 2000-2001 R's they are not usable. her logic was a newer car would command more money. So I sent them a 97 for sale for 21,000, again it wasn't usable, but this time her logic wasn't the same. Apparently, I need to show them 98 type R's, or even 99's that are stock, and within san diego radius in order to make my case. Autotrader is dry right now. If anyone has a 98-99 for sale, please let me know so i can submit it as evidence. I am being screwed because of bad timing and not enough R's for sale. Please help if you can.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'll glady put my car up for sale in the san diego area if you need me to.

 

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I'll glady put my car up for sale in the san diego area if you need me to. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Really? How.. and where?

 

Craigslist?

This the only free one I know of. Most of the others like yahoo/autotrader cost like 20 bucks.

 

Dude... you would be doing me a huge favor! Yes, of course, I'll take you up on this... Let me know if there's anything i can do to return the favor.

 

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I'll glady put my car up for sale in the san diego area if you need me to. </TD></TR></TABLE>

that's what i would have done

 

It shouldn't matter where the car is for sale. Its a rare car, so its not like there's gonna be 55 of them for sale in one city. Value on ITR's doesn't change with the area you are in, unlike other cars.

 

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I know that, you know that, but my ins co does not care. Same reasoning could apply to the year and why it shouldn't matter. Its a rare car. They don't get it, man. I have already pleaded this case. My last resort is 98-99s for sale in San Diego.

 

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I know that, you know that, but my ins co does not care. Same reasoning could apply to the year and why it shouldn't matter. Its a rare car. They don't get it, man. I have already pleaded this case. My last resort is 98-99s for sale in San Diego. </TD></TR></TABLE>

After you get your money, I would drop your insurance. It's sometimes better to know someone and pay a little more than having to deal with this. (I don't know your situation so Im not judgeing you on what insurance you have). Just saying that big places like esurance etc wont be the most helpful. I have state farm and have never had a problem. I know my agent personally and its very nice.

 

Search for some of my topics - I've dealt with insurance companies on Type-R's a couple times and always been able to get great results. The biggest thing is to get an independent appraiser to come up with a value. Also, ask to see the list of cars they are using to come up with that value, most likely they are almost all GSRs or lower.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1987643 - this was from my last dealings with my insurance company.

 

what you need to say is... There is only 320 of them and more then half are gone which makes them even more rare and hard to find. Take what I can find and use it. With 160 1997s out there the chance of another one being in SoCal is slim.
If they don't like it, contact a lawyer.

 

Too bad you weren't by me .... I have a spreadsheet of every Type R that went on sale in the Autotrader in my province in 2007 for this purpose alone

Wish I could help!

 

THIS IS GETTING FU�KING RIDICULOUS!!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!!! I was able to find some 98's to compare, but because they have a header it is not comparable, because I need a stock comparison!!!! I'm going to lose it!!!!!!! They are asking me to find a needle in a stack of needles!

 

taht is pretty crazy...there saying this isn't stock...

http://sandiego.craigslist.org....html

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JackBurton &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">THIS IS GETTING FU�KING RIDICULOUS!!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!!! I was able to find some 98's to compare, but because they have a header it is not comparable, because I need a stock comparison!!!! I'm going to lose it!!!!!!! They are asking me to find a needle in a stack of needles! </TD></TR></TABLE>

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If they don't like it, contact a lawyer.</TD></TR></TABLE>

This is good advice right now. Tell this to your insurance company.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Bbasso &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what you need to say is... There is only 320 of them and more then half are gone which makes them even more rare and hard to find. Take what I can find and use it. With 160 1997s out there the chance of another one being in SoCal is slim.
If they don't like it, contact a lawyer.</TD></TR></TABLE>

He had a 98, there were ~1000 of them.

 

one of the vehicles they are comparing me to is JH4DC2315WS003741. Anyone know if this is a salvage? Anyone have carfax that can help me out? This car is listing for $8000 in Anaheim as of 9/28/07

The other car I am compared to is JH4DC2319WS004455 listed 12/05/07 for $10,900 in Irvine.

 

I found the latter... its not even a stock type r, has a B20 block: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/car/553503462.html

 

I hate to say it, but with a salvage title, I think you'll be lucky to get much more than their original offer.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JackBurton &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I found the latter... its not even a stock type r, has a B20 block: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/car/553503462.html</TD></TR></TABLE>

time to get a new insurance company?

 

wow this is pretty harsh by our insurance company. Just wondering what do you have for your insurance company??

 

It rhymes with with JERKury!