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Sad to see a beauty with only 1300 miles go to bits.

 

Wow...is this the first that's turned up wrecked?

 

ouch!!!

 

Nope. You would be impressed the cars I've seen go by. To be honest the one I posted isn't that bad it just looks bad.
Structurally I'm certain the car doesn't have much movement, it's just the price of parts ie subframe, control arms, headlights etc... that made it a salvage.

I saw a mclaren mp4-12c go up in seattle with 800 or so miles a few months ago. Oddly a few weeks ago there were 3 rolls royce brand new that went for sale in miami with flood damage.

 

Those cars are probably from a few months ago when we had torrential rain. A few building on the beach had the bottom levels of their parking decks flooded.

 

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for clearing that up.
There have been tons of cars with flood damage pouring out from miami.

 

With the aluminium bodied cars, warranty is invalidated if the vehicle is repaired anywhere other than a Jaguar Authorised Repairer. There are two levels of Authorised Repairer - Body and Structural.

These bodies are riveted and glued together. The Convertible has no welds and the Coupe only has only two welds at the rear of the roof panel.

In the UK, insurers are writing off aluminium bodied Jaguars with what would be straightforward repairs on an equivalent steel bodied vehicle. The approved specialist repairs making them uneconomical to repair.

In addition to this, registration documents are endorsed once a vehicle has been written off by an insurer, adversely affecting its value and saleability forever. I understand there is something similar in the US?

Graham

 

That is entirely true, after all I am just speculating.

You usually have around 5mm of acceptance with frames. From what I can see the most of the impact was taken by the front crossbeam then the suspension took the rest, which is a good thing. Jaguars have mostly aluminum suspensions and they simply turn into pieces with a collision, when that happens it actually saves the car because all of the inertia front the impact is absorbed by the suspension thus saving the frame from being distorted.
And as for the crossbeam that is not critical to the integrity of the car and you could simply pop the rivets and replace it. A hell of a lot of work but not the worst thing.

I think the crossbeam having been ripped from the top of the front frame section may have moved the frame slightly but I think it would be within 5mm so all is well, again I am just speculating I haven't seen the car in person.

In the US it is the same thing as what you are describing in the uk. This car has a salvage title and will receive a rebuilt title after the repairs are made. Luckily in the us this won't affect registration or insurance rates, but the value will take a hit. Typically a rebuilt will be around 30% less than retail, more or less depending on the severity of damage and repair quality. Also you can not get a traditional car loan for a rebuilt title.

Without a doubt this isn't cost effective to have repair but if it was your car and you really want to keep it you can fight with them to have it fixed.
Depending on your insurance plan they have to fix it so long as the damage is under 75% the value of the vehicle (florida). Some states it's more.