RIP: 2005 Super White Scion tC
 

Well, as most you already know, I haven't been on this forum very long, but the tC hit a deer a couple days back.

Sister was driving and hit a deer at around 7:00 at night. As most of you know, that's pretty dark for this time of the year. This wasn't nor do I say that it was my car, so please don't talk trash.

None the less, the frame doesn't appear bent, but the oil pan leaked out quite a bit of oil, but the car had been turned off immediately after the incident. Car ran well before.
The radiator support and such were pushed pretty far back, but the car still runs. We're hoping it gets totaled or they give us like $5000 and we just part out the rest of the car.

As for the next car, me and my dad found a replacement in a matter of hours. We bought an 03 BMW 325i w/ in about 20 hours of everything.

Pictures of the replacement car and the the Scion are below. I will more than likely be parting everything out so just keep that in the back of your mind.

Any comments/ concerns/ suggestions are welcome:

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BMW 325i w/ 155K Miles!

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Clean for 155K

Yep. Only 2 Owners as well. That being said, for the same price as the Scion, I consider this a lot better bang for the buck.

Much more comfortable and reliable, in a way. Not saying Scion is bad, but Scion really is Toyota w/ a few adjustments and some pretty cheap material.

Nothing really drives like a BMW, but the Scion did have fewer miles and was 2 Years newer.

The styrofoam bumper seemed to survive! lol


FYI, you're comparing a much more high-end car to the tC. That's like comparing a Bentley to your beamer.

Sucks about the wreck, glad everyone is alright.

BMW is missing a pedal but otherwise it is a proper sedan. Just pray it never needs parts. My 4.4L X5 set me back $600 before the $150 core was taken off for an alternator. That was with me doing the repair. Now it's my work truck and it's been damn reliable but I came accustomed to cheap parts for the Japanese imports.

Still have the scion for errands and the fact it ISN'T an awd V8 suv makes it much better on fuel but the X5 makes for a better handling vehicle. I blame it on 49.7/50 weight distribution. :icon_smile:

did you make sure to finish the deer? but yeah, an e46, nice, the other plus for having a BMW is there is a lot of aftermarket support for them.

A good place to start shopping if/when you start modding it is modbargains.com and bavauto.com

I know what you mean. And yeah, they just ripped the bumper off apparently.

I was only comparing it in the money factor. :icon_razz:

Yeah, this one has been owned by 2 people. 1 Person who drove it new till 50K and the second that drove the rest of the 100.000 miles. Everything is up-to-date and condition wise, I think this probably is in better condition for an extra 45k miles.

BMW's can be expensive if you get them at the wrong mileage or if it's not been maintained properly.

We never found the deer.... :rofl:

But, thanks for the links man! I appreciate that.

I call dibs on that spoiler if you part it lol. That sucks but at least you got a cleam bmw out of it. I can't believe the airbags didn't go off with all that damage.

edit: and that stubby antenna lol

I would've eaten the deer for revenge.

Shoot me an offer for both. We will hopefully be getting the car back in our possession by this weekend.

hahaha... Same. Only if we could've found it! :rofl:

If your serious about parting out how much for both the tail light harnesses cause I need them for my anzo tail lights? I need the 05-07 harness which u have. Lol

We currently have an estimate of $7500 for the damages on the car. We'll be getting the call tomorrow about it being totaled.

I hope to have the car back by early next week and will start parting everything out.

PM the right offer and I'll sell you just the harness, but for now, I really want to keep the tail-lights and the harness together.

Do you know if the 08-10 use the same harness?

I'm using my 08 harness on my anzo tails rite now but the only thing is I don't have a reverse light cause the socket doesn't sit properly and is not long enough to reach it with out me really pulling on it. But that's the only difference in the harnesses I believe. PM what you would think would b a good price and I'll go from there cause I'm not trying to low ball u plus u said u kind of want to keep them together

How bout this? I'll PM you as soon as I get the car back? It's still kinda in the air when we're getting the actual car back.


Thank for your interest and I'll let you know for sure early next week.

Sounds good brah!

And about the pedal thing, this isn't my car.... lol... If it was, I would NOT be driving an automatic BMW. Just ruins the fun out of an amazing car.

I honestly have NO idea how much to offer. Just PM me what you want for them. I JUST got into the scion game so I have no clue what any of it goes for.

Not looking to rip anybody off. I'll try to get you a good offer by tonight.