But it looks like I am just waiting for a phone call from the adjuster on Monday with the number. In case you guys missed it, the Detroit area, along with some areas of Long Island got record rainfall last week from the same storms. I made the mistake of working past 7pm in one of the areas that got over 5 inches of rain (in just the afternoon hours!). I barely made it off campus, waited it out for a while at a restaurant, then was 50 meters from making it out whole when a car in front of me stopped progressing through a big puddle and I was honking for like 20 seconds then cars started coming from the opposite direction, wave/wake washes over the hood, car coughs (never died though) lurches and in hindsight had its dying day right then. The picture in this article pretty much sums up what it was like in the area I was in. http://www.startribune.com/nation/270898541.html
Took days to get a tow because of all the carnage around here. Got it to the Audi dealer mid last week, finally got a "storm coordinator" insurance adjuster assigned late last week, and by Friday Audi had their estimate. $18K+ for a top end rebuild and $30K+ for an engine/block. (There were other things that got toasted that day that were in the estimate, one of my xenon's took on water and both fog lights were broke).
I actually had my car lightly for sale, on here only, but that doesn't change my sadness with regards to the terms I'll go out on with the car.
http://www.rs6.com/showthread.php/26890-Rs6-for-sale
I'll try to let you know how/if it gets salvaged around here, because my interior was near perfect (and I had RNS-E).
I don't think my wife will let me do the salvage thing, kind of like Papa Doc. I think I am going to get a Volt, which for me basically pays for itself because I am 30 miles roundtrip to work and work lets me charge for free. The Volt will then let me, in the spring, by wife's admission get a third car of whatever I choose (likely a classic or something I can take apart and try my first material engine work on).
Part of me, based on how bummed I have been the last couple days, wishes the engine can be rebuilt. How much do you think I could do this for, outside an Audi quote? The one xenon is $750, the two fogs are $250 a piece, and then I figured I'd have $1000 bucks of fluid and tune up items while an engine was out (O2's and such). Who knows, maybe the insurance company will try to source a used engine, Audi said many of the insurance companies have been trying to get them to do that against their wishes (on the 20+ hydrolocked cars they got from that day). Because our engines are so bulletproof, I wouldn't mind one from Shokan. What are the hours to putting in an engine? As background, my Audi dealer (I use them and the indy and me) has always been extremely fair on time and they have an R8, RS tech and their hourly is only $20 more per hour than my indy.
SORRY FOR LONG POST, SAD COUPLE DAYS...
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