Most of the big stuff is sold as of 8/99
This page contains some of the pix my wife's Red Passat GLX (37K miles)
after getting rear ended by an A-hole who skidded 90ft and still couldn't
stop his piece of shit Saab. This also pushed the Passat into a car front of my wife. The crumple charactoristics of the design showed no damage inside car. The air bags both blew and nearly took my wife's head off. Interesting when the bags (they go in pairs even if only driver in car) blow AND there is someone in the seat the seat belt also blows and pulls you into your seat so the air bag can hit you square in the head!
The inside of the car fills with smoke and you think the car is on fire. My wife panicked after crash and got out fast into opposing 50 mph traffic. SO pass the word the bags leave a lot of smoke when they go .... DON't PANNIC!
NOTES ON dealing with insurrance co: I bought my car for salvage. After the accident I had it towed to MY house, I would reccomend this BECAUSE it allows you to clean up the car a little. Clean the interior, door jams, trunk, engine .... detail it, it's like a corpse embombment. Why would you do this....... if it is a total?? They look at the car and see the condition.... make it as clean as possible. Also if you are a "fanatic" they know this and will deal with you differently. My co was super (New Jersey Manufacture's). The insurrance co will look at it a establish a "condition", as stupid as it sounds. My car was "mint" before the crash, I continually told this to the insurrance co. I continually told them that I looked for 1-yr, 2-months for this car (true). The first $$ amount that they said the car was worth was less than I paid, 6-months earlier. I found out that a private owner cannot get an "A" or mint condtion for their car only a dealer is allowed this. I basically continued to play the mint condition / I looked 1yr-2months for the car. Within a short time (days) they upped the offer to mint conditon and I got a little more.
I wound up buying the car for 10% of the totaled amount. One can guess what a 95 PASSAT with 37K miles is worth. Not everyone wants to have a junker in there drive way, but it's like having your own junk-yard.
7-12-99: Engine/trans/ecu gone to JOE and his brother. Joe's ~91 GTI (VR6) is one hell of a car.... beautiful. He bought the PASSAT and is going to drop engine/drivetrain into an A2 for his brother.
The interior is gone to Tom's red passat TDI. Tom likes his TDI so much he talked me into my own 96 red TDI Passat sedan, previously owned by a Serbian diplimat from Bethasda. This car
has 27K miles and almost drives like my wife's (new 95 red Passat GLX) up to 40mph. Yea I'd say there is NO difference in acceleration up to 40 mph! (rather unbelievable)
Now back to the wrecked 95:
The rear has extensive damage to the passenger side rear quarter panel
and rear. The nose of the car is damaged only at the lower apron.
