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Wife totalled her car, maybe
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<blockquote data-quote="TacomaJD" data-source="post: 282314" data-attributes="member: 1780"><p>My dad has done body / mechanic work and bought and sold wrecked cars my whole life from insurance salvage auctions all over GA, TN, and AL. I've seen him bring in nice vehicles that literally had no inner structure / core support damage, and all it took to fix it was simple bolt on things like a new grill, one headlight assembly, and a fender.....and them be totalled. Maybe they'll hook you up and go ahead and total it.</p><p></p><p>And also, damage in transport usually means cosmetic damage, i.e. scratches, skints, scuffs, and dents. Lot different than being involved in a crash.....unless it fell off a car hauler on the way to the lot or the truck driver fell asleep and rolled the car hauler off in the ditch. </p><p></p><p>When you have a head on crash vehicle and it hit something so hard that the trunk lid doesn't even line up and close properly, then there's where the good and the bad body shops are weeded out from each other. Not every body shop around does a spot on job at fixing some of the serious things like that. I've sene first hand work of several body shops around here and there's usually one or two things that I can easily point out after they are finished with it that isn't right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TacomaJD, post: 282314, member: 1780"] My dad has done body / mechanic work and bought and sold wrecked cars my whole life from insurance salvage auctions all over GA, TN, and AL. I've seen him bring in nice vehicles that literally had no inner structure / core support damage, and all it took to fix it was simple bolt on things like a new grill, one headlight assembly, and a fender.....and them be totalled. Maybe they'll hook you up and go ahead and total it. And also, damage in transport usually means cosmetic damage, i.e. scratches, skints, scuffs, and dents. Lot different than being involved in a crash.....unless it fell off a car hauler on the way to the lot or the truck driver fell asleep and rolled the car hauler off in the ditch. When you have a head on crash vehicle and it hit something so hard that the trunk lid doesn't even line up and close properly, then there's where the good and the bad body shops are weeded out from each other. Not every body shop around does a spot on job at fixing some of the serious things like that. I've sene first hand work of several body shops around here and there's usually one or two things that I can easily point out after they are finished with it that isn't right. [/QUOTE]
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