Aveo5 Attempted Robbery :(

:banghead: Thursday night, Friday morning, July 13 (Friday the 13th) of 2007 my 20 days old Aveo5 was damaged by immoral robbers attempting to take my car, they managed to damage both front door locks and leave me with scratches on the hatch and the hatch luck and damaged door panels and dings and bends as they broke the locks on my doors, thankfully they did not get in. I got really lucky but the damage is estimated to cost over a grand and take forever because the parts for the door handles need to be ordered from Korea, I don’t know what to think, I am so violated, I wonder if I should fix it or just sell it or trade it in or just move, I don’t know if they are going to come back for it. Any advice would be appreciated. It ruined my day and weekend and I am afraid now. Why would they want my cheap car? Should I not fix it and just let it be? Trade in value after 20 days and 700 miles is under 7,000, I paid 10,000 for the car.:( I love it, but is it worth it? :banghead: :disappoin :frown:

I'd say definitely worth keeping. Unless you plan on moving to a "safer" neighborhood. But still no guarantee you won't have a breakin there either. When I lived in the burbs cars were broken into all the time. If you get rid of it for something else, that something else is just as likely to be broken into. And maybe even more so as you are currently driving one of the cheapest cars available and anything else would be an upgrade. I wonder if they wanted the whole car or just some of the contents. In the future you could make sure there is nothing valuable in the car and leave the doors unlocked. This way if they want the contents they won't break anything getting in and will leave once they realize there is nothing of value. If they really want the car I have a feeling they will get it no matter what. If you are still worried about it being completely stolen, it may not be a bad idea to look into the insurance where they will replace the entire vehicle and not just pay out the depreciated value.
Since this car has no real monetary value, value will be obtained by keeping the vehicle as long as possible, driving down the cost per mile over the long haul. Even if you have to put 1k into it.
Personally, I would fix the locks and make sure everything works properly and not bother with the cosmetic stuff. Since I'm not of the mentality that my car defines who I am, I don't care what it looks like and especially don't care what others think of my car.
That's my 2 cents. Good luck.

hayes is right, just fix it, make sure you are insured and maybe invest in an alarm or other theft deterent device.

Quit parking in the street!:nono: I stoped parking in the street at the risk of geting kicket out of my modular home park. I had parked an old beatup corrola in the street which was rammed for insurance fraud(i'm guessing) the car was totoaled.:dunno: :dunno: In the same corner where my house is the is brick wall on the other side is liquor store. The brick wall has been rammed into several times.