Salvage Value of SE3 ??

[bluejayrover]

Well, one of the few times I let the wife take out the rare '03 monte carlo blue SE3 with only 20K on it a drunk driver does a head on into her. The freebie was amazing - both airbags deployed and my wife and daughter walked away w/o a scratch. A combined 75-90 MPH hit. The freebie did not fare so well - totaled. Now I need to negotiate with the insurance company on the value. What is the value I should try to get since the car was so rare??
Thanks,
Good thing I have 2 more Rovers!

 

[syoung]

It's not rare... let it go bye bye. There's no reason at all to try to rebuild it and would far outweigh the market value. There may not be a whole lot of SE3s in the USA and maybe not a lot in that colour, but it doesn't matter... they're worth what someone will pay. Nobody would pay over book because of that paint, and especially since it was obliterated at one point.

 

[lrcb40]

If you break it, I'll take the sunroof - I just noticed mines going as rusty as an old nail - on a '02..........

Andy

 

[bluejayrover]

I don't think it will work. The sunroof on the SE3 is a two panel glass t-roof style that is removeable with no moving parts - ie. no rust. Sorry.

For those with an SE3 I may have a soft top, cargo deck lid, floor mats, and a hard top ( it was off at the time of the accident and I'm not giving it back!)




Jay

 

[frickjp]

I probably have a glass for a Freelander around, we've changed a roof assy or two. I'll look tomorrow.

 

[lrcb40]

Doh! I missed the SE3 part.............I knew that it had two roofs, honest!

Thanks for looking into a replacement, Frick

Andy

 

[StevieLBCA]

Im looking for a KV6 short block........mine lost a wrist pin and went BANG on the freeway. Being a head on Im guessing the motor didn't fair so well but thought I would ask anyway

Steve

 

[curtis]

A combined 75-90 MPH hit.

First off, glad the wife and child are okay.

As a point of clarification; there is not really a "combined hit". This is assuming that you were combinig the speeds of the cars. The hit is actually the speed of both cars added and then divided by two. So, if you have two cars going 35MPH colliding head-on the impact would be the same as hitting a wall going 35MPH. The total energy would be from a collision of 70MPH, but (assuming the cars are close in size) each cars absorbs its fair share of the impact dividing the 70MPH by two.

Sorry, I had to interject. I was corrected myself on this once.