Sorry to hear about your car Paul.
Paul Osnes wrote:
>
> I Autocross a '97 Miata, which is also my daily driver.
>
> Friday night a teenager rear-ended me hard enough to push the wheel
> wells up against the rear tires.
>
> Assuming the car isn't totaled by my insurance company, does anyone
> have any advise on how to get it closest to fighting trim?
>
> I don't have unrealistic expectations, and I've never been in the hunt
> for trophy's anyway; I just like to race. But I do want to know that
> it's the driver that's slow, not the car.
Your mileage may vary, but that last statement is the key one to me. If
it was me, I would fix up and sell the car and buy another one if it was
financially possible to do so. Otherwise, I would always wonder if my
car was 100% correct after a bad accident...but that's me.
Also, keep in mind that many insurance companies will let you buy the
car from them at 25% or so of totalled value. I did this and with some
minor repair, was able to sell the same "totalled" car at near blue book
retail. In effect, I was cash ahead. This did require my insistence (and
making sure they knew I was going to be a PITA about it) that my car be
returned to it's "perfect" status.
So, how much more negative camber did you get from the crash anyways?
Randy Chase
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