Posted by W_B on June 01, 2018 at 04:37:50 from (155.188.123.24):
In Reply to: Body shops posted by Michael Soldan on May 29, 2018 at 18:11:25:
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Case in point... I like Subaru's and I've been following a couple of young guys down in Tennessee on YouTube (goonzquad) who bought a 2017 WRX, 17,000 miles, from a salvage auction to restore. Car was hit on the side, no airbag deployment, runs and drives. Was partially disassembled by a body shop, just front bumper missing but all there otherwise. Relatively light damage on the side. The insurance company totaled it, that was a $35,000 car new. So two country bumpkin kids put the work in to find two driver side doors, minor body work, some repaint and blending and put it back together. They did have a frame shop fix the hit area, they said a small job, and put the doors on and get them aligned.
Because the cost of normal repair was so high they essentially discarded a nearly new vehicle. It's no wonder that insurance costs are so high. I don't fault the shops, they have to pay their guys and gals and keep the bills paid and hope there is some left over to feed the family. At some point, and we might be there now, cars are going to be disposable items, get hit and it goes to the salvage auction. Won't need body shops as there will be nothing but high end work to do.
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