Should this be totaled?
#1
Should this be totaled?
The car is a 99 base formula with 145k miles.
Someone backed out of a parking spot and t-boned me as i was driving by.
EDIT: I'm not fixing it myself, and I'm not letting anyone use bondo on it. The other guy's insurance is paying for it, since i wasnt at fault. I would actually prefer it be totaled, so i can transplant the powertrain into a lower mileage V6 car that's not a POS yet.
Someone backed out of a parking spot and t-boned me as i was driving by.
EDIT: I'm not fixing it myself, and I'm not letting anyone use bondo on it. The other guy's insurance is paying for it, since i wasnt at fault. I would actually prefer it be totaled, so i can transplant the powertrain into a lower mileage V6 car that's not a POS yet.
Last edited by rumblebox; 03-16-2013 at 08:52 AM.
#2
get the blue book value of your car and an estimate of the repair cost. That should give you a better idea of wether it should be salvaged or not.
IMO it shouldnt but insurance companies dont always agree with one.
IMO it shouldnt but insurance companies dont always agree with one.
#4
the door is salvagable. for certain. the quarter panel. you need to either pul it with a tap in puller or via cut off beat out smooth. weld it back on. and then bondo. paint it to match and bam done. honestly....probably about a 400 dollar job if all the work is done yourself
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For insurance maybe. Personally hell no. You could pick those parts up for cheap i bet and put a little work into it yourself and get it done. Then all you have left is the expense off those parts getting painted.
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#8
The point is I'm not doing it myself, since it was the other guy's fault. and nobody is using bondo if they do fix it. the door and quarter panel will be replaced completely.
If they DO total it, I already located a few V6 cars in much better shape to do a transplant.
If they DO total it, I already located a few V6 cars in much better shape to do a transplant.
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I would guess it can be saved. It just needs a little work.
#12
Doesnt matter if they repair the quarter panel, or replace it. Body filler will be used.
That being said, the nightmare situation associated with "bondo" is when unqualified techs use it without fixing a panel correctly first. basically just caking it on.
#13
Has anyone noticed that these parts, specifically on the driver side are always where fbodies ******* get hit? Mine got hit, in that same spot, and I've seen at least easily 20 fbodies over the past year for sale or being parted out that have been hit in the same spot, in the same exact way. Always a bit of the door, and the driver rear quarter panel.
#14
i hate to break it to you, but "bondo" (or body filler) is the standard practice to repairing vehicles.
Doesnt matter if they repair the quarter panel, or replace it. Body filler will be used.
That being said, the nightmare situation associated with "bondo" is when unqualified techs use it without fixing a panel correctly first. basically just caking it on.
Doesnt matter if they repair the quarter panel, or replace it. Body filler will be used.
That being said, the nightmare situation associated with "bondo" is when unqualified techs use it without fixing a panel correctly first. basically just caking it on.