That's all right, I've made the mistake of confusing the two before.

If that's all, then I think it's worth at least getting it checked out. If the dealership did a good job, I'd say it's worth it.

 

Some minor sqeaks and rattles are ok if you hit a big bump, but nothing more than that. I have 3 s2000s and 2 are salvage. The 2 salvage ones only made weird noises when I first picked them up due to missing interior screws and hardware, improperly fitted panels and poor suspension pieces.

I'm amazed at the hackery that these vehicles get, especially when Honda lays down a detailed picture of every component for purchase...online.

Depending on your intent with the vehicle, I wouldn't be worried about an accident or even a salvage vehicle. This depends on the repair though, so careful inspection is critical. I'd put my salvage titled s2000 against half the clean titled ones I've seen in person.

 

Because shoddy body work is evident right away. This accident was reported 2 years ago - if the paint was going to fail, now is very likely the time by which it would have. If panels aren't lined up, it's easily spotted. I can tell a shop exactly where to look, they can dig around and see if they find anything alarming. The fact that just a few panels were replaced tells me it wasn't a bad accident. In contrast, someone ran a red light a few years back and I hit them in the side going 40 mph. I had over $13,000 worth of repairs done to my Civic SI. Couldn't tell a difference in the way it drove when I got it back, and I went to just an average shop. When I was younger, literally 5 cars in my family had been in an accident at some time or another, and never once did any of them give us problems post-repair. I just think some people get way too caught up in things like this, personally.

If you crash your S2000, are you going to immediately sell it, regardless of the damage? I guess I don't care that much, because in the grand scheme of things, I've never once in my life been burned by purchasing a car with an accident in its history. Until that happens, I'm not going to let an unfounded fear cause me to spend thousands more on a car.

Just my $0.02, you don't have to agree. I also wax my car once a month instead of once a week, change the fluids at mfr specs rather than twice as frequently, etc. In the end, to me, it's a car, and I probably don't care *as much* as most of you guys do. Probably somewhere in-between the average s2ki member and a random person not very interested in cars.

Accident or not, $14,200 is a pretty sexy deal on an 06 S2000 in the color I want @ 6x,xxx miles.
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An S2k that has been in a major or minior accident will be affected in handling. The car's chassis is build to be stiff and perfect from the factory, once you crash one and things dont line up right, the handling is affected majorly. I drove an s2k that was in an accident that didn't have its frame line up perfectly any more on the alignment rack. It wasn't a salvaged titled either (rebuilt) but it runs like one. I can't even turn it hard or else it spins out on me.
I own a clean title one with a minor bumper scrape and it handles fine, but I would NEVER buy a car that was in an accident.
I speak from experience because 3 out of the cars I previous owned was salavged and they had hidden problems that will show up with duration in your ownership. Invest in a non-accident s2k and your money in the long run will be better spent.

 

There are also plenty of S that have been in an accident, been repaired, and drive and handle fine. Not all accidents, or repairs, are equal.

2 people are in a car that gets hits squarely from behind. One is in pain the rest of their lives, and is never the same, the other is fine and no worse than before. They were in the same accident, but had different outcomes.

Sure, caution is warrented when buying, but an accident is not guarenteed to alter a cars dynamics.

 

Doesn't matter too much, the S I was looking at has been in 3 accidents, bad enough to pop the airbags. Rear collision, hitting a tree, hitting a guardrail.. when I called the dude out on it he was like "what? that's weird.." as if he knew nothing about it. 2 of the 3 accidents happened a year ago, under his ownership, and they were the two he didn't tell me about. f@#king douche. I wonder what legal recourse I'd have had I purchased it since I have texts from him telling me otherwise.