Determining a "junker trucks" worth at junkyard

[Sigarms]

Yep, I did the same. But in reference to the teenager issue, it usually gets better, and hopefully sooner than later.

He and you may not have any interest in this, but the Military can be the answer to young people growing up in a hurry. At least for some.

Personally I think mandatory service in our country would be a good thing.

My father was career Air Force.

I enlisted in the Army. My dad thought I was a dumb SOB because that's why he put his time in and he didn't want me carrying a gun.

This one (former truck owner) wants to go into the Marines. I was a little hurt and asked him why the Marines. He told me because he doesn't want to be killed so that's why the army is out (I laughed my butt off). I asked him about why not the Air Force, he informs me that there are too many gay people in the Air Force.

My wifes uncle was just over for a family get together. He's a marine. A cub scout leader who I worked with and his son are Marines. More than a couple of Marines have talked with him.

Thing is, kid is so shy about his privacy, I try to explain to him when you're taking a crap or a shower, there are no stalls (have they put them in now? LOL).

End of the day, military will either make him or break him.

My other boy is going into the Air Force. Want's to do security, get out, go to college and then become a LEO. I know plans can change, but at least he's formulated a a plan. Let him talk with a cousin currently serving in the Air Force, he told him his buddies in security thinks it's boring and sucks. The way this one boy sees it, he gets paid, military pays his housing, meals and medical, and he still thinks it's worth 4 years because he can save all his money, and stick to his plan.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

A kid of 16 can't legally buy a vehicle on his own.

So who signed the title paperwork?

Who's name is on the title/registration, and who's name is on the insurance?

He didn't do this without "help".

Sorry, but there it is. Someone is enabling him.

No scrap yard is going to give you diddly squat for that truck. That's just the way it is. Tires? Take them off if you want them, yard won't be interested unless they're some gangsta' wheels. It may sit in their yard for years before anyone buys anything of consequence off of it (like an engine) for the yard to make anything at all off of it. You'll be dang lucky to get more than a hundred bucks for it. Most yards I knew wouldn't even take it unless you have title for it.

 

[Midniteoyl]

A kid of 16 can't legally buy a vehicle on his own.

So who signed the title paperwork?

Who's name is on the title/registration, and who's name is on the insurance?

He didn't do this without "help".

Sorry, but there it is. Someone is enabling him.

No scrap yard is going to give you diddly squat for that truck. That's just the way it is. Tires? Take them off if you want them, yard won't be interested unless they're some gangsta' wheels. It may sit in their yard for years before anyone buys anything of consequence off of it (like an engine) for the yard to make anything at all off of it. You'll be dang lucky to get more than a hundred bucks for it. Most yards I knew wouldn't even take it unless you have title for it.

Yes, this was said by Sig already.

 

[bcp]

Pull and sell the engine, transmission, transfer case and front axle. They are easy to store out of sight for a while if needed.

Make a trailer out of the rest of it. Sell it for $800.

Scrap the rest.

Bruce

 

[Sigarms]

A kid of 16 can't legally buy a vehicle on his own.

So who signed the title paperwork?

Who's name is on the title/registration, and who's name is on the insurance?

He didn't do this without "help".

Sorry, but there it is. Someone is enabling him.

No scrap yard is going to give you diddly squat for that truck. That's just the way it is. Tires? Take them off if you want them, yard won't be interested unless they're some gangsta' wheels. It may sit in their yard for years before anyone buys anything of consequence off of it (like an engine) for the yard to make anything at all off of it. You'll be dang lucky to get more than a hundred bucks for it. Most yards I knew wouldn't even take it unless you have title for it.

Who do you think?

Yes, I enabled him by telling him he buys what he saves up for (this is what I'm kicking myself for as I would have never bought the truck in the first place for a primary means for transportation).

Of course the title is in my name and he is on our own insurance because he couldn't affort the over $300 a month policy on his own (we checked LOL).

You aren't telling me anything I don't already know.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

So stop blaming the KID.

 

[Sigarms]

So stop blaming the KID.

I'm blaming the kid for his lack of reasoning or thinking things through. You want to become an adult, you won't have mommy and daddy for back up.

Accidents happen. You learn from your mistakes. At this point in time, seems like no learning is actually being accomplished.

He worked and saved his money, he can spend it on what he wants to. I'm not going to be a prick and not put him on our insurance. He goes on our insurance, he has rules to follow and he knew that going into this agreement.

He makes a mistake, I'm not covering for it unless he wants my help and actually listens. He doesn't want that help, it becomes all on his own.

Does that make sense to you, or in your professional opinion, what should I do?

I was just wondering what I could get for the vehichle as I've never had to to this before. I would take the line of reasoning over men on this forum than what my son's 16 year old buddies tell him. Make any more sense?

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

I think it makes more sense to me than you realize.

This kid doesn't live in a vacuum. And neither do you. You "know" your kid. Even from just what you've posted in this thread alone, you've known this was going to be a problem.

Right?

So yes, you be a "prick". Your words, not mine. I would call it being a "parent". Now before you get your hackles all raised up (because NO ONE likes being told how to raise their kid), you are the best judge of your own kid, not me, not the folks down the block, and not your kid's friends. And if warnings are going off in your head, you listen to them. You're not trying to be his "buddy". He'll have lots of those over the years.

I bought my own car with my own earned money too. I also HAD to buy my own separate insurance. And this was money I earned at an outside job between school and working on the family farm (which I never got paid for). So it was all my money, and all my risk. My folks weren't being "dicks". They were teaching me responsibility. I also had a knack for getting in trouble (not like kids today, just "normal" trouble, lol). I liked to drive fast and street race in rural AZ, was dumb but I outgrew it. But my folks new me well enough to know that I needed to stand on my own financially and accept whatever "risk" I created on my own.

When my daughter graduated HS we bought her a car and put her on our insurance. Double standard? No, she was not me. Straight A's and headed to college. She's a different kid than I was.

My 2 nephews are polar opposite (they sound a lot like your boy). Kind of reckless and restless, and they are a long ways from "grown up". NO WAY would I put either one of them on my policy and put me at risk.

It depends on the kid.

You know yours. You know he's a risk.

My point.

Make sense?

Next time just ask how much for a rollover wrecked truck and leave all the "wayward kid" portion out of it.

Make sense?

 

[Sigarms]

I think it makes more sense to me than you realize.

This kid doesn't live in a vacuum. And neither do you. You "know" your kid. Even from just what you've posted in this thread alone, you've known this was going to be a problem.

Right?

So yes, you be a "prick". Your words, not mine. I would call it being a "parent". Now before you get your hackles all raised up (because NO ONE likes being told how to raise their kid), you are the best judge of your own kid, not me, not the folks down the block, and not your kid's friends. And if warnings are going off in your head, you listen to them. You're not trying to be his "buddy". He'll have lots of those over the years.

I bought my own car with my own earned money too. I also HAD to buy my own separate insurance. And this was money I earned at an outside job between school and working on the family farm (which I never got paid for). So it was all my money, and all my risk. My folks weren't being "dicks". They were teaching me responsibility. I also had a knack for getting in trouble (not like kids today, just "normal" trouble, lol). I liked to drive fast and street race in rural AZ, was dumb but I outgrew it. But my folks new me well enough to know that I needed to stand on my own financially and accept whatever "risk" I created on my own.

When my daughter graduated HS we bought her a car and put her on our insurance. Double standard? No, she was not me. Straight A's and headed to college. She's a different kid than I was.

My 2 nephews are polar opposite (they sound a lot like your boy). Kind of reckless and restless, and they are a long ways from "grown up". NO WAY would I put either one of them on my policy and put me at risk.

It depends on the kid.

You know yours. You know he's a risk.

My point.

Make sense?

Next time just ask how much for a rollover wrecked truck and leave all the "wayward kid" portion out of it.

Make sense?

Makes complete sense.

However, after talking with some insurance agents on both our boys driving, I honestly have no clue how a 16 year old in today world would work part time during school year and full time for summer months just to pay for the car insurance. I was told don't be surprised if it hits over $4,000 per kid.

Both boys pay us for being on our insurance plan, about $100 monthly, per boy.

 

[strantor]

That truck is worth 0$ at a junk yard I'd wager. If they offer anything higher, take it and leave quickly before they change their mind.