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Post by bigskypc50 on Mar 18, 2018 8:53:29 GMT -6
Anyone here have an experience with Copart? I am looking at getting my 2nd Aurora and can't afford the 3 grand retail price, I have found a lot of Auroras on Copart that seem like pretty good cars. But I hear so many negative things about Copart. I suspect being 2001-2003 they are considered "old" and don't suffer from the same problems as buying a 5 year old BMW or something much newer that most of the horror stories you hear from Copart.
Anyone have any stories to share.
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Post by tigger on Mar 18, 2018 23:00:46 GMT -6
Most of their vehicles here are insurance "buy-backs", i.e. damaged and salvage titled. Others are clean titled "rollers", meaning exactly that, they will roll...
Pretty good prices though, if you're a gambler, lol! I don't have the space or time...
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Post by 02aura on Aug 30, 2018 10:21:51 GMT -6
I just purchased a 2nd gen Aurora from them last week. I got it at auction for a winning bid of $600. With fees it ended up being $910 total. This car was a donation with a clean title, and listed as runs and drives, with secondary damage being mechanical. It definitely was a gamble as I couldn't look at it beforehand easily. I ended up getting pretty lucky, as it had been sitting for a long time, and just had a ridge of oxidation in a cylinder and after getting the piston past that a couple times it started, and then after burning out some old gas started running OK. Only other thing is a window regulator broke the first day I had it. I haven't had it on the road yet except to get gas, but it looks good otherwise. Can't beat it only having 48k original miles, and one owner.
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Post by human on Aug 30, 2018 15:45:41 GMT -6
That name brings back unpleasant memories. My late lamented '98 Aurora went to Copart after I totaled it in the summer of 2009. My direct dealings with Copart were minimal in that incident and my unpleasant memories primarily associated with my (thankfully now former) insurance company, Travelers. They kept trying to pressure me into taking a lowball settlement based on little more than fiction (the average of three advertised prices for very high mileage Auroras in AutoTrader) instead of actual book value. it took a couple of months and a threat of reporting them to North Carolina's insurance commissioner for a practice that had already run them afoul of other states' insurance commissions, but they finally brought the settlement into the realm of reality. I'm sure I ranted at length about this at the time. It's hard to believe that was almost a decade ago.
Daily Driver: 2011 Impala LT
Weekend Toy: 1995 Aurora
Coming Soon: 1964 Dynamic 88 Convertible
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