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Re: Rebuilding wrecks

In a message dated 3/22/99 6:50:58 PM Mountain Standard Time, owner-bmw-
digest@domain.elided writes:

<< m: Thomas Michael Fairchild <thomasf@domain.elided>
 Subject: Caveat emptor (Let the buyer beware!)
 
 A bit of history to set the scene...
 A couple of years ago, I had the mis-fortune to use a couple of rock
 walls to stop my 3 month old 316i Compact >>

That's right Tom, these cars do get recycled. From my experience they get sent
down to TX where labor is cheaper or laws are looser (I'm guessing here, I
don't know their laws) and are rebuilt and resold. This is what happened in CO
to my daughter's 318is. The insurance company had no problem giving her what
she wanted as settlement because they knew they could get out of it ok. Wall
Street Journal several years ago had a story about a guy in AZ who totaled a
new Torino and found the same car two months later for sale - as a new car.
Car insurance is sorta like sausage making - you know?
Fred Callender RMC
Wanna buy a nice 533i?

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