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#45
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Wow, that sucks! For comparison, here's a pic of my damage from last year. To give you an idea of what to expect, this cost the other driver's insurance $2600 to fix at a reputable body shop:
The difference is, the front fender is a bolt-on piece, and the rear quarter isn't. My rear quarter was dented in just slightly, but was successfully pulled out with studs. Actually, just that little region was responsible for about half of the cost. Given that yours is a '90 and has extensive rear quarter damage, I don't see any way that the insurance isn't going to total it. It's probably fixable if you replaced the subframe, control arms & whatnot and then sourced a good rear quarter and cut & welded it in, but that might be as much of a PITA as getting a new shell and swapping your parts over. Sorry man. Damn inattentive drivers.
The difference is, the front fender is a bolt-on piece, and the rear quarter isn't. My rear quarter was dented in just slightly, but was successfully pulled out with studs. Actually, just that little region was responsible for about half of the cost. Given that yours is a '90 and has extensive rear quarter damage, I don't see any way that the insurance isn't going to total it. It's probably fixable if you replaced the subframe, control arms & whatnot and then sourced a good rear quarter and cut & welded it in, but that might be as much of a PITA as getting a new shell and swapping your parts over. Sorry man. Damn inattentive drivers.
#48
it fixed more on my car when i spun off the road. swap subframes, quarter can be done if you can drill out old spot welds and spot weld a new one on, remove old replace with new. I couldn't do it so i had a body shop put the new quarter one and i did the rest and had a friend paint it.
My car was:
front bumper
left fender
left door
left quarter
rear bumper
My car was:
front bumper
left fender
left door
left quarter
rear bumper
#50
Well heres the news as of late, I just got the car back to my house after my friends dad started getting ornery about it being parked in front of his house. Upon inspecting the car closer it looks like only the upper control arm got buggered. the other **** looks straight especially the mounting points for the control arms on the car so... Methinks I will dawdle with the insurance company to get them to pay me for the 40+ hrs of work i put into this badboy and the $2300 in **** i have on it and then we will go from there. So it looks like I may be keepin her after all (interest in thread -30 points). Anyone know if the rear quarter panel is a bolt on affair?
#55
^^^~~~$2875 worth of damage . . got it pulled out for free . .painted the fenders black($20) $2855 to my Audi turbo project . .
Should have spent it on turbo'ing the 'ol 'ata
all in all . . im sorry for your loss.
oh i remember! yeah
Your damage is most likely more than $3k (according to the insur. company)