Anyone need a parts boat?

[oldjeep]

http://www.crankyape.com/default.asp?pg=DispSingleItem&ItemNumber=52872

 

Looks pretty good until you get to the pictures of the rear.

[Chef23]

Hit by a car when on the trailer?

[oldjeep]

Looks like it. Bent platform brackets with shards of the platform still attached, damage right above the brackets and the wedge is missing. Too bad they don't have better pictures of the rear/bottom - looks to me like most of the force got transmitted through the wedge, based on the explosions/cracks on the corners and sides.

[MISkier]

If it is an insurance salvage, the cost of the repairs must have exceeded the value of the boat. That tells me there are probably a lot of issues that were created beyond the point of impact.

 

Also, it didn't look like it had Zero Off.

[oldjeep]

Isn't the ZO the upper center screen?

[Wish]

I believe that's just Bu's version of cruise control and not PP or ZO.

[MISkier]

The ZO on the Malibus is typically mounted in the right circular gauge location. The center portion is for Malibu cruise, as @Wish noted. The salvage boat has the original factory gauges in all instrument panel locations.

 

The center gauge also has various diagnostics and other information to scroll through.

[oldjeep]

Ah, on a VTX if you have ZO it is integrated into the other systems - doesn't look like an old fashioned Perfect Pass display.

[MISkier]

@oldjeep, can you post a picture of that integrated ZO on the VTX showing the screen layout/icons they use? They haven't done that with the LX, LXi or the TXi that I have seen. I wonder why.

[oldjeep]

Maybe if I can find one. The ZO system in the other models may be different than the TXI. My understanding is that some form of ZO is standard in every 2015 Malibu. Looks like the version in Maliview does not have the tournament style settings B/C or whatever that is

 

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm63/etrogdon/10.jpg

[Waternut]

Still a really sweet boat IMO. This looks a whole lot easier to fix than replacing waterlogged/rotting stringers in an older boat.

[Wish]

A towing company basically snapped my buddy's 2004 Gekko GTR in half just in front of the back seat when they lifted it incorrectly by the eye rings. We were all shocked when Progressive payed to fix it. Took them a month to do the repairs. They separated the top and bottem, cut out and reglassed big sections, reinforced areas, and gel coated to where it's almost impossible to see where the huge cracks were. Very high price tag that Progressive paid. And they picked the repair shop.

[RichardDoane]

someone paid $24,525. as the winning bid

[MISkier]

I wonder how much it will cost to fix? If it's another $15,000, it's not a deal.

[RichardDoane]

my fiberglass guy guessed at least $5K from the limited pictures, so if that doubled and you had to pay shipping, youi should have just purchased our 2011 Malibu LXi

[oldjeep]

And I'm just not buying that you could do that much damage and not have messed up something mechanical.

[RichardDoane]

there was a video clip of the thing running, and as long as the engine/trans alignment didn't get shifted, the powertrain should be fine. However, the fuel tank is in the back where the damage occurred.

[oldjeep]

@richarddoane in addition to the fuel tank, I'd be wondering about the rudder area, if it took the impact in the wedge.

 

Not sure how you can be off topic in your own thread :)

[Rivvy]

I went and checked it out. It really wasn't that bad. I bid up to $20k and decided it wasn't for me. You have to pay sales tax plus broker fee as well. Not to mention it was full of snow. Rudder and underside was good. Somebody will probably come out ok on it.

[Waternut]

I was watching it pretty hard as well but really just didn't have the funding to go up as high as it went. Fiberglass work is really simple to me. Time consuming and messy, but a very straight forward job. I still would've been interested if the back was just hanging by a thread so if you guys see something like that where everything else is in great shape, post it up!

[Jody_Seal]

$24,500 plus tax and fee's then add the $5,000-$10,000 to fix it??? Don't think it was such a good deal. After it is all said and done the buyer still has a repaired hull.

[RichardDoane]

Smart money just buys our 2011 LXi, which is perfect