OH PLEASE HELP....I NEED ADVISE!!!

[lgbaby14]

okay...so my brother decided to take my car without permission...wrecked
it...and the front part of the frame is bent. I am concerned if they
will
total it or not? i will need a new front fender, hood, and driver
door...front bumber and of course the front frame is obviously bent. I
just got my car out of the shop because I wrecked it 3 weeks ago...so
this
will be 2 wrecks within 1 month...never had a wreck before...just
wondering
if anyone had any advise...i have been told that once the frame is bent
even if they fix it it will never drive the same. What should i tell the
body shop and any advise or does anyone know if it will be totalled? The
SUV is a unibody frame...whatever the hell that means???? thanks so
much...hope to get some advise.
lgbaby14

 

[helix]

fear not. the Saturn is one of the few vehicles that the entire frame can
be unbolted part by part.
My wife is an auto adjuster for GM, she says Saturns are almost never
totaled. Any good body shop with a frame straightener can re-align it for
you, and parts that are beyond straighteneing can be replaced. Suggest
using used parts, a lot cheaper then after-market.

 

[Seamus's Stuff]

fear not. the Saturn is one of the few vehicles that the entire frame can
be unbolted part by part.
My wife is an auto adjuster for GM, she says Saturns are almost never
totaled. Any good body shop with a frame straightener can re-align it for
you, and parts that are beyond straighteneing can be replaced. Suggest
using used parts, a lot cheaper then after-market.

Umm....no it can't. The frame is welded together just as another vehicle.
I should know this. As I spent 7 years in the body shop here in Spring Hill
and 2 years of that was spent measuring the spaceframe for dimensional
deviations.

Jim

 

[blah blah]

Umm....no it can't. The frame is welded together just as another vehicle.
I should know this. As I spent 7 years in the body shop here in Spring Hill
and 2 years of that was spent measuring the spaceframe for dimensional
deviations.

Jim

This is an old thread anyhow. Helix stop using talkaboutautos.com and
learn how to "really" access newsgroups. (He'll probably see this in a
few months...)