Name: Diamond Certified Experts: Is Your Car Worth Repairing?
Uploaded: 2020-01-09T19:33:40Z
Channel: Diamond Certified Resource
Description: Kacey Copeland, owner of autoTech Blackhawk, a Diamond Certified company, explains how to tell if your vehicle can be repaired or if it needs to be replaced. To learn more about autoTech Blackhawk, visit https://www.diamondcertified.org/report/autotech-blackhawk/ To learn more about Diamond Certified and find top rated companies in your area, visit https://www.diamondcertified.org/

DANVILLE — Host, Sarah Rutan: If your vehicle is in need of substantial repair work, you’ll need to determine whether repair or replacement is a better option. Today we’re in Danville with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Kacey Copeland of autoTech Blackhawk to learn more.
Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Kacey Copeland: So, one of the questions I get asked quite regularly is: Is my car worth repairing? And what I have to tell everybody is that it depends. You know, there’s a – you’ve got to figure out what it’s worth to you and not necessarily market value and then what kind of types of repairs are actually needed.
So, we’ve got three different potential customers that we – that we deal with. We’ve got the customer, number one, would be someone who is driving a car with sentimental value. It was their father’s car, their father passed away, and every time they drive this car, it’s – it’s something that reminds them of him, and it’s definitely something they want to get repaired and keep on the road. Customer two would be someone who, yeah, I’d say they like the car, it’s a great car, but they want to make sure that it’s practical and cost-effective to repair the car. And then customer three would – would, you know, run along the lines of, yeah, it’s a good car, but take it or leave it. I, you know, I fix it if I have to, but I’ll &#8211; I could easily get another car.
So, let’s say you&#8217;re at your mechanic and you&#8217;re into – in the mechanic’s shop for the second time in one year and you need brakes again. The mechanic goes and drives the car and figures out that the actual – the cause of the problem is that the suspension is worn out. So, when you&#8217;re hitting the brakes the car’s dipping down in the front so all the energy of the car is being absorbed by the brakes and not being absorbed by the suspension at all; therefore, you&#8217;re needing brakes more – more often than you actually should – excuse me – should. So, the cause of the problem is actually the struts. The symptom is the fact that you need new brakes again. So, you – they’ll – they’ll put a quote together for you.
And the things that you need to, you know, figure out or the checklist you’d want to go down would be, you know, what’s it – what’s it actually worth? So, one of the resources that I recommend would be kellybluebook.com. So, you can go onto Kelly Blue Book, you put in your year, make, and model of car, you put in all the options &#8211; the trim, does it have a sunroof, does it have alloy wheels, do you have a lift kit on it &#8211; and that will give you a private party value and a – and a dealership trade-in value. So, you can take those numbers and add or subtract the cost of the repair and then figure out what the actual value of the car is if you fall into category two or category three. So, those are the kinds of questions that we’re – we’re helping customers out with quite regularly.
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Video: Is Your Car Worth Repairing?

Kacey Copeland, owner of autoTech Blackhawk, a Diamond Certified company, explains how to tell if your vehicle can be repaired or if it needs to be replaced.

To learn more about autoTech Blackhawk, visit https://www.diamondcertified.org/report/autotech-blackhawk/

To learn more about Diamond Certified and find top rated companies in your area, visit https://www.diamondcertified.org/

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