Based on reading posts on this and other LR forums for many years actual fuel pump failures are relatively rare. More often a failed crankshaft position sensor masquerades as a failed fuel pump.

That said you may not care, given the front end damage.

But taking everything at face value you're asking $3,000 for a non-running '04 DII with significant front end damage. Seems high. By a factor of six, perhaps. I acknowledge that 84,000 miles is very low, but still ...

 

Hi Dan,
I sent you private message this am w/ my email addy;
will try to phone or email you later today;
Thomas

 

Red Rover makes a valid point here. I paid $1000 for my 2003 SE7 over 3 years ago. it showed 175,000 miles on it, and had a sagging head liner, cracked windshield, CELs and a seeping radiator,...but it had a super straight original body with good paint, excellent tires, clean interior, ice cold A/C. I couldn't pass it up. I did have to put a windshield in it, replace the radiator, brake rotors, brake pads, ignitions wires, plugs, intake gasket, valve cover gaskets, rebuild the driveshafts, replace the eBrake drum, intake heater circuit, and a door lock actuator and a drivers door regulator roller. Most of it in the first year of ownership,.....but I have done all that work as it was needed, and the truck has never let me down. I was commuting 120 miles a day at 70 mph for 6 months and it just kept plugging along. Ive had many Land Rovers,..........I have really come to appreciate this one, in part because it was so cheap,......and most importantly, because it keeps on keepin on.

 

If an insurance company totals a vehicle, it is then deemed "Salvage"

 

Exactly then 3K is completely out of the question. More like $500.00 tops. Doesn't run, no front end, and salvage title.

 

Some states don't issue salvage titles for vehicles over 10 years old.

 

Pretty sure TX does as I had to fight and fight with the love "Travelers" Insurance company after I was rear ended at 45MPH in my 98 D1. They wanted to just low ball me and total out my 98 D1 with a salvage title... I fought em, and finally settled without touching my title status.

 

Yeah, that can be an option too. Get them to value the car high enough that you don't cross that 65% (or whatever it is) salvage threshold, and then get them to just cut you check instead of salvaging the vehicle.

Years ago when I worked at a shop, my boss was able to do that with a car has was trying to sell that someone wrecked. That wanted to total the car for $1900 and he provided lots of receipts and work orders showing that it wasn't a "typical" car of that year and mileage. They eventually cut him a check for $2750 or so and got to keep the car without a salvage history. Of course the $2750 payout would show on carfax.... so that might raise some eyebrows.

 

I bought a wadded up BMW R1100RT Motorcycle years ago from a BMW Financial Auction for $250,....because it had two Ohlins shocks on it and a good rear wheel and tire Plus a final drive and transmission and good engine block. Long story short, I was amazed when I received a good (non salvaged) title for it. The bike wasn't worth trying to rebuild,....so I just tossed the title. Sold the shocks for $600, ABS pump for $175, trans for $250 and final drive for $150. I used the rear tire and wheel on a personal bike for a ride from Dallas to Oregon and back.

Point being, as others have noted,....there can be unusual circumstances where a badly wrecked vehicle that should have been totaled can sometimes come with a good title.