[WRECK] Another one bites the dust :(
Originally Posted by lol999
Just to give you an idea, same thign happened to my old TA. And it was totaled. PIC:
I still say that no one can tell you it is only cosmetic by looking at your pictures. Only the insurance company can make that call. Also, there used to be a time when you could buy back a totalled car from the insurance company but nowdays most big insurance companies will not allow that. Again, safety concerns and fear of lawsuits have the insurance companies running scared.
I sure hope your car can be fixed but if not hopefully you will do well enough with your insurance to get yourself another one. As someone else said the most important thing is that no one was hurt. It's just a car.
Originally Posted by BURN'EM
Fixable, once all the broke stuff is off you will see the damage is cosmetic.
You can see in the pic with the air filter in it, the radiator and all that has been shifted to the right an inch or two
the fender (not quarter, my bad) panels on each side have been pulled/pushed as well.The t-top on the drivers side appears to no longer be seating well against the windshield either.
you tard, whoever it was that said do I work in a bodyshop and how much it takes, yes I do, and di since i was 12 with my grandpa whos fixed TOTAL LOSS cars for the last 50 years and hes 70 now. He will buy me a car from just cosmetics to chopping off a roof and ive fixed it, I may be young, but you would be very very suprised on what I can do. maybe you should see the car I cut in half to fix, maybe I'll see if we got pics of it. and that car is still going with 250k miles and hasnt moved a cm from where it should be to this day.
ok, with that shift it might be totaled.. but if it is buy it back, it will be under 2k to buy it back. either try to have it fixed or part it out.. i know how distressing it is to have the car you care so much for being hurt that bad..
Yeah, that shift might be a little suspect. Hard to say what they will do. Also it looks like the white car got hit on the corner.
I dunno, with all the power these car possess and witht he speeds some people go.. I would full a little untrusting after it had been damaged that much. Sometimes it just isn't worth the risk.
I dunno, with all the power these car possess and witht he speeds some people go.. I would full a little untrusting after it had been damaged that much. Sometimes it just isn't worth the risk.
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Verdad Gallardo ohhh boy here we go again. there aint a thing wrong with a wrecked car, total loss or not. if it shifts big deal! it can be pulled back, or cut and welded back. id rather have a person doing it voer again than some machine at the factory just gonig as fast as it possibly can. a shift like that isnt hard at all to move back with a little pulling. I dont think some people realize how weak thats teel really is on some aprts of the car and how easy it is to fix.
I clipped the wall at the strip several years back, and had similar damage, but my chassis wasn't warped like you pics above.
I had to replace both headlights, front bumper cover, hood, and passenger side fender. Everything was only cosmetic with mine, and I paid it out of my pocket. One word of advice - use OEM parts. Since I had to pay for mine, I used an aftermarket fender, and it just does not fit right at all. I'll put an OEM fender on eventually, but right now, I'm too poor.
I had to replace both headlights, front bumper cover, hood, and passenger side fender. Everything was only cosmetic with mine, and I paid it out of my pocket. One word of advice - use OEM parts. Since I had to pay for mine, I used an aftermarket fender, and it just does not fit right at all. I'll put an OEM fender on eventually, but right now, I'm too poor.
it will be fine dude, if you got it all lined up where it should be they go on jsut like overpriced dealer ****. we never ever get **** from the dealer, only if tis emblems do we get it. hell look at m ine, everything on mine is aftermarket pannels and they line up fine
Originally Posted by Tainted
it will be fine dude, if you got it all lined up where it should be they go on jsut like overpriced dealer ****. we never ever get **** from the dealer, only if tis emblems do we get it. hell look at m ine, everything on mine is aftermarket pannels and they line up fine
The best fit is the factory fit, which means get OEM parts for body panels.
Originally Posted by dragonZ28
Please, nobody take this advice. No offense man, but aftermarket body panels are junk unless you are putting them on a racecar for weight reduction purposes.
The best fit is the factory fit, which means get OEM parts for body panels.
The best fit is the factory fit, which means get OEM parts for body panels.
The sad part about having a car repaired is the fear that a body shop will do it poorly just to keep the cost down so the car doesn't get totaled. Afterall, if the car is totaled, then they can't do the job. It is the way of the business to make sure repair costs come as close to, but not over, the "total" amount. If this means cutting corners or using cheaper, inferior parts, then sometimes shops will do it because it puts money in their pockets.
I can make a 6-point socket fit on a 12-point bolt. Just give me a hammer. It saves me the money from having to buy the 12-point socket to do it right. What I should do is buy the socket that fits the bolt, but if the socket costs more than the bolt, then I'll just have to throw the 12-point bolt away, and find a 6-point bolt that will work. Not an exact analogy, but you get the idea.
Not all shops do this, but a lot of them do. It is always a great idea to get a second estimate to see just how whacked out the numbers are in comparison.
I can make a 6-point socket fit on a 12-point bolt. Just give me a hammer. It saves me the money from having to buy the 12-point socket to do it right. What I should do is buy the socket that fits the bolt, but if the socket costs more than the bolt, then I'll just have to throw the 12-point bolt away, and find a 6-point bolt that will work. Not an exact analogy, but you get the idea.
Not all shops do this, but a lot of them do. It is always a great idea to get a second estimate to see just how whacked out the numbers are in comparison.
Again that all goes back to my point about trusting a totaled car. There is so much involved. Can you trust the shop to do the work the way you would want it done. Can you trust the shop to get the car back to facotry standards or higher?
Shrugs.
Shrugs.
Originally Posted by dragonZ28
It is always a great idea to get a second estimate to see just how whacked out the numbers are in comparison.
I do agree that you should always try and use OEM parts when available and I pay my insurance company extra to be able to insist on OEM parts for my cars. I've been pretty lucky with the body work I've had done during my years of driving but the one car that I had a MAJOR accident in I traded 2 months after it was repaired anyway as I just was not comfortable knowing all the damage it had. I even told the dealer and provided a list of the repairs but the delaer said he didn't care since "carfax" reported it clean. Nice huh?