The way i see it is the car cost me £4250, if i was to fix the car for £2.5k thats means the x5 would have cost me a total of £6750 and then when i come to sell it on i may get my £4250 back if im lucky, obv having a repair like this done to a car will help it sell on but it doesnt really add value to a car, so in all id be loosing that £2500 id just spent on repairs

by parting it out ill make my £4250 back alot easier without having to find the £2.5k to repair it, the wheels alone are fetching around £1200 over here and think i have already managed to sell these, someone coming out friday, sold the arch extensions and a couple of little radio parts today for another £300+.... someone wants to come at the weekend and have the front / rear bumpers for £600 the pair.... so if matey comes for the wheels then so far today alone i have managed to sell £2100 in parts, not bad for the first day i suppose

still doest make it any easier to have to break it as the car is in perfect condition but i have already brought my new car so need to recoup as much money as possible to cover what i spent on that.... or i will be in the dog house with the missis lol

my new car:

Big spec impreza