4,703 Brand new Mazda's to the scrap yard!

[pOrk]

http://www.autoblog.com/2006/12/15/mazda-scrapping-all-cars-aboard-capsized-cougar-ace/

Freakin WOW.

[CobraSnake]

holy crap that sucks. I wonder if there insurance will cover that.

Mark

[0TransAm0]

DAMN.. i guess thats a liability they dont want... even if they tell the people buying them...

[Karps TA]

Yes insurance covers situations like that. I've had containers dropped at the port which broke pallets and dented some engines and insurance scrapped the entire lot and paid for it.

[CobraSnake]

Yes insurance covers situations like that. I've had containers dropped at the port which broke pallets and dented some engines and insurance scrapped the entire lot and paid for it.

did you get the engines?? They couldn't have been that bad.

Mark

[HY35F2T]

hopefully no mazdaspeed 6's were hurt.:D

[70 cutlass 442]

thats almost 2 years old

[HY35F2T]

:rolf:rolf:rolf:rolf

[nismodave]

Pork has been finding alot of old news lately.

[Mr Twigbert]

Dam, I would have bought a new dented up car for cheap..

[Windsors 03 Cobra]

Should have sent them to CUBA.

[nitroxtreme]

Now I know why madza prices went up the last couple years....

[OxmanWI]

Should have sent them back for a refund

[T-Bag]

I knew I heard this several years back...

[lordairgtar]

I remember when there was major floods somewhere in 1968, Ford had a lot of vehicles that were damaged. They donated them to high school shop classes, I remember Pulaski High still had one 69 Torino CobraJet in the shop in 1972

[MurphysLaw88GT]

Ahhhh....the Failboat. I knew i had recognized it

[pOrk]

thats almost 2 years old

It wasn't posted here :thumbsup

[Reverend Cooper]

well at least the cars are where they belong

[xxsn0blindxx]

Wow this is old news.

[Junky Giorgio]

should have let them sink.

[Voodoo Chick]

Poor little Mazdas..........

[wikked]

they could have parted them out at least? jesus, what a waste of parts.

[Al]

they could have parted them out at least? jesus, what a waste of parts.

I'll second that. I am surprised to see that they were not salvaged in any way. Body panels, glass, transmissions...

[pOrk]

They could have sold them to someone in hollywood, all the movies they make and need stunt cars or background cars to get smached to ****.

Hell, they could have gave them to bums, or the DMV to use for road tests, there's a thousand things they could have done with them. What a waste.

[Karps TA]

It's for liability reasons. Both safety and warranty wise. I'm sure the insurance company got plenty of scrap money for the cars.

I can tell you in our instance, unless we were going to take the time to open each engine and make sure there was no internal damage, and then run each engine, it was just not worth the time and effort. The last thing you want is the engine getting out to OEM's and into an end user's hands, then say 50 hours in whatever got knocked around in the engine breaks loose and kills the engine. Which then costs the company via warranty, not insurance. Or even worse, and this is stretching it, but a rod shoots out the block and injures someone. Then you have that whole situation.

And the articles says they deemed the cars scrap. Doesn't mean that they went straight to the crusher. It means Mazda and their insurance company wanted nothing to do with those cars. They might make it as movie cars still, or be scrapped for parts.

[pw_cc_runner]

here is the most current update:

http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080429/FREE/360566202/1023/LATESTNEWS

[Karps TA]

Forgot this was a japanese company. They'll definetly destroy the cars. lol

I throw hundreds of brand new starters and alternators away ever year because we take them off for upgrades on customer engines, and Daihatsu won't put "used" parts on engines.

[wikked]

Forgot this was a japanese company. They'll definetly destroy the cars. lol

I throw hundreds of brand new starters and alternators away ever year because we take them off for upgrades on customer engines, and Daihatsu won't put "used" parts on engines.


Are you allowed to keep them? Hello profit!

[Karps TA]

Keep them for what? I don't really need a 40 amp alternator for anything. We donate some to tech schools.

[wikked]

Keep them for what? I don't really need a 40 amp alternator for anything. We donate some to tech schools.

eBay? Craigs-slit? it's pure profit :P

[Al]

Yet it is acceptable for cars from major collissions to be parted out at salvage yards?

explain "irony"