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  1. #1
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    Sorry for your loss, Trudy! If it is the end, use this a nice opportunity to find another VX for yourself. Good luck!

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    Hate to be a Vulture

    But if it turns out it can't be fixed can you give the site a heads up on where the VX is towed and let us know what may be usable? I really do noy need anything but since parts are rare someone here may need them.

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    Sorry to hear about your woes. Sending you all the positive Karma we can.
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    Put a smiley after you say that Bub.

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    Unhappy Thanks for your sympathy

    Progressive guy due here today. Upside, I deal with these same Progressive
    people here at the body shop so I already know the adjuster and he's not a
    unreasonable guy and will be right up front with me about what his company
    will or won't do. Progressive figures the car rental costs as part of the total claim, so that's going to screw me. I just completed the estimate and I wrote $3600, so it's only 40% of threshold for a total loss, but a potential car rental bill of $7000 will be the deal breaker.

    Ed @ Tynan's Isuzu called again this morning after contacting Isuzu about my parts. Most of the body items are no longer stocked, period, anywhere. I have to place the order with vin# and they have to be "made" at Isuzu's Japan Fabrication Facility. That can be a wait of as long as 6-9 months as I'm sure some of you equally unlucky owners have already discovered.

    Lenny Weisberg just put his 01 Charcoal in the local paper for 10k and I called him this morning to see if it was still up for grabs. It has 87k miles and he is the original owner. I plan to push them to buy that one for me if they are going to take mine.

    Salvage value could be as high as 7k since it really has so little damage. It will go to Klode Salvage Distribution in Littleton, Co to be listed on their bid sheet. You have to be a body shop, salvage yard, or dealer to even bid on it. That's the downside to letting go of a VX with so many good parts needed by so many good people. Will post an update as more info is available.

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    I’m sorry you have to go thru this. You should agree with there terms only if you can keep the VX. That way you can recoup more from selling the parts. Tell them you need to run this agreement by your lawyer first, it helps.
    Cars designed by spreadsheets make sense. Cars designed by engineers make history.

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    That so much's SUCKS! I wasn't in my VX a week and this '*******' (sorry) almost took me out doing the same crap. God if I could of got my hands on him,... proable would of had a heart attack at my age, but I wanted to kill the,....sorry, bastard!
    Greetings, Earthling. We come in peace... Never mind "Paris to Dakar", the VehiCROSS looks ready for the Martian desert.

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