Recent content by jackfu

Will never buy a car without a black headliner. Not exaggerating. Had a grey one once. Once.

Good news is that it’s very easy to color and blend if you know what you’re doing and have the right stains. I’d rather do that than take apart. Taking things apart almost always introduces rattles

Dang it. That was what prompted me to get rid of mine. So glad they finally made it!

Ah the fun part of DV. Theoretically it would be most correct at time of sale to determine the amount. But the times I’ve dealt with it, it was at the conclusion of repairs, estimating the difference in market value at that point. I would scrape past R1T sales records, including gen 1 to...

Ya definitely very state and also situation dependent. That one was my second DV process. I hired an expert the first time and diyed the second one. I pulled sales data on my car model and did some regression modeling to determine the average hit on value at sale due to an accident record. Their...

Time for a new agent. I got DV in Maryland and didn’t even have to jump through that many hoops. Iirc got paid about 2k on 10k of work. The offending party was USAA, which handled the process pretty professionally.

You mean a trade in reduces the amount of basis for the sales tax of the new car? All the examples I’ve seen with trades at Rivian are where the Rivian offer are so low that you’re still better off taking the sales tax hit if you’re trying to optimize for maximum savings. But going with the...

If you can swing the lease buyout amount, you’re probably better off selling to Carvana or carmax. While neither will do a direct lease buyout of a Tesla lease, they’ll probably offer more money for the Tesla after you buy it out. Rivian trade ins are in general on the lower end. Rivian website...

Tesla does the same thing

I love the interior. I will promptly forget this car even exists and never think of it again :)

Ya feels like terrible sales training. Unless they have an overriding objective to get you into a R1 today. The R1 interior is solid from a touch and aesthetic perspective. Not a lot of hard cheap plastics, especially on the upper half of the cabin. It falls short a bit from the rattles that...

T1 luxury 😂😂😂

Do you have the vehicle back yet to look at the simple 24hr drain summary? My guess is that the motion cameras kept activating and recording.

Also, if your estimate is on the borderline of total or not, you can voice your preference. Years ago the adjuster asked me exactly this when there was flood damage, and he helped push it to the total territory after I told him I’d prefer that.

Looks like a straight on hit. Lack of paint transfer and scrapes, just pushed in. Wild. So sorry. Any local business with cameras?