Man, I wish I could buy this.....

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:09 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/DAMAGED-2005-JEEP-C ... p1638.m122

If only it was in the US.

dgeist · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:26 am

I know what they need to do to fix it:

Put the serpentine belt back on.

Seriously, that would be a good one to put a steel bumper on since the current one is gone anyway.

JHCRASH · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:36 am

How much is it to ship cars to the us?

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:20 pm

JHCRASH wrote:

How much is it to ship cars to the us?

oh, less than a thousand.

Though that would be pointless, you would never get that vehicle legally licensed on the road. It's essentially impossible to grey-market import a car these days.

kjfishman · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:25 pm

I can't believe that the insurance company involved didn't repair it. Sure doesn't look bad enough to salvage, at least in the photo's. Maybe the frame is tweaked real bad.

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:08 pm

kjfishman wrote:

I can't believe that the insurance company involved didn't repair it. Sure doesn't look bad enough to salvage, at least in the photo's. Maybe the frame is tweaked real bad.

I can believe it, your talking about $6000-7000 USD for a shop to repair that. Dont believe me? next time you get in a little fender bender see how quickly it adds up.

(I've seen 60K Porsche's with the insurance Co's repair estimate inside the showing 26,000 in repairs needed, car sold for 16k, so at 42k someone stands to make 18k in a months time)

Frame damage? not likely. I think people far too often think "frame damage" as a likely cause for a vehicle to be totalled.

Bill.Barg · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:39 pm

If only it were a manual tranny!

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:31 pm

Bill.Barg wrote:

If only it were a manual tranny!

meh, I'm not as much into manual trans are you guys are.

jinstall · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:35 pm

Oh that is a RHD and you can pretty much forget it. There are so many things you have to change on it to make it legal.

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:59 pm

jinstall wrote:

Oh that is a RHD and you can pretty much forget it. There are so many things you have to change on it to make it legal.

Yes, but not related to the RHD.

Hell if it were a little cheaper I would buy it just for the drivetrain.

boilermaker2 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:28 am

It would be great if you were a rural mail carrier

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:03 am

boilermaker2 wrote:

It would be great if you were a rural mail carrier

that wanted to get good mileage and tow alot of mail!

Uffe · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:24 am

Actually the towing part is a little extra funny if you consider that a mailman with a KJ would be able to deliver you a KJ on an autotrailer on the hitch

jinstall · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:02 am

Someone posted here about a few RHD mail carrier KJ's for sale a few weeks back. Being that the UK KJ was not sold in the US there would be a huge issue in importing it. Best to do is fly to the UK, strip it, put all the parts in a container and bring it back.

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:22 am

jinstall wrote:

Someone posted here about a few RHD mail carrier KJ's for sale a few weeks back. Being that the UK KJ was not sold in the US there would be a huge issue in importing it. Best to do is fly to the UK, strip it, put all the parts in a container and bring it back.

Yup, you basically would just not be able to import it, you would have to prove compliance with US crash test regs, emisions standards, etc etc etc.

But ya, parts, could strip the drive train from body and then ship them both seperately to the US.

Overall just not worth it when for just a little more there are CRDs already in the Us.

Man, I wish I could buy this.....

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