Any Car Body Experts Here ???
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finding somebody to a perfect job can be very difficult frequently its not perfect but the insurance co thinks it will do leaving you to argue forever about getting it done properly
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Should've hit the chav, then his insurance would be paying to wash a Corsa off the front of your 3 series.
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And presumably also paying for the straw and blender so he could eat his dinners from now on.
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That, or cars have ABS now. ABS often leaves no marks.
I was going to post this video in a new thread, but it seems very appropriate. Keep watching until the standard tractors have trundled past...
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I think I found the culprit:
lulz.
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Well I've been in crash repaired cars and driven one, after I crashed it and it was repaired...it drove better after the crash.
Personally, I think there is very little in the way of actual chassis damage.
Sure, new wheel, bonnet, wing, bumper, suspension, slam panel, cross member, possibly radiator, other ancillaries. You're well in to the coupld of £k mark alreadyl.
Sure, new wheel, bonnet, wing, bumper, suspension, slam panel, cross member, possibly radiator, other ancillaries. You're well in to the coupld of £k mark alreadyl.
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Really? If the subframe was pushed back on that side it'll have uneven caster, and that you will notice, steers easier one way than the other. Our Punto is like this, in that it just adds to the fun, but I'd rather not my own car do it.
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Is this what happend?
Realy should have gone left tho
He must have been very close to hitting you if you went that way too.
Looks like you just pooped yourself when you had no need?
That's how I'm picturing it too, god knows why he sewerved into the middle of the road though!
Just had a small car crash , the car is a bmw compact 2004. Looking at this pic what would I be looking at to get this fixed , im fully insured yet am curious to the damage done in pounds
thanks
http://img22.imageshack.us/i/crashrn.jpg/
Its repairable but the value of the car is going to be the problem. I think it safe to say its a write off, a 2004 BMW is not a high enough value car to have that amount of damage repaired.
How did the pole cause all that damage ? Did you hit a curb and then the pole ?
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Cat D write off i would say.
Explain how the pole has been flattened then???
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Quite easy to mount the island and miss the box.
They do go down, but a car impacting it at the sort of speed the OP is suggesting and the angle it'd be hit from (very low down), it'd be broken off the base or squished down and stayed mostly down rather than squished flat and pop up again.
They do go down, but a car impacting it at the sort of speed the OP is suggesting and the angle it'd be hit from (very low down), it'd be broken off the base or squished down and stayed mostly down rather than squished flat and pop up again.