Can this be fixed?
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- Amicus0
I wouldn't want to be in a car crash in that now. Your passenger will be squished quicker than you can blink... probably the whole safety cell is fucked.
- mikotondria30
^^ Exactly, Amicus - the 1st person to point on that this thing is now an absolute fucking death-trap - that post is what gave the car so much strength to withstand totally folding in an accident - now that's gone and you have none. You're riding around in a cardboard box - I can't believe any professional sane person would work on that, let alone fix new parts like a windshield. This car was designed to behave a certain way when impacted or rolled over - from the drawing board through to manufacture that corner post was designed to move stress around the frame away from the people in the vehicle.
I would not travel in this, and neither should you.
If you got t-boned going through an intersection, the passenger would have no protection, that mangled steel has already served its purpose and absorbed energy, it won't absorb any more, it will fold like wet paper, and anything hard will cut through it and smash the person sat there to death. It wouldn't stand up to a deer strike at low speed, you're a sitting duck on that thing, for christ's sake scrap it immediately and get what you can for it. If I was a cop I would pull you over as soon as I saw you. No insurance is ever going to be valid on this, and you're probably committing an offence just having it on the road.
Come on, man, I'm pleading with you never to drive this thing...- bro you either have some real issues or went through something super traumatic in the past... share!pr2
- ah, I'm just middle-aged with kids. My brain is wired for safety and life preservation, at the expense of my own coolnesmikotondria3
- Horp0
Don't even think about trying to resolve this. You can't get that metal back to the right shape. The sections are too intricate. It would be impossible to restore it to its correct shape and would look like crap. You could weld a new roof on, bu it will never be correct and that being the cae NONE of your windows or door shuts will ever be correct again. Bottom lline is that you will actually pay a very significant amount of money to make the car look 'sort of' okay, but it will become utterly worthless in the process. Yoo would never be able to trade it in or sell it.
Try and get a sale for it at a breaker's yard. The value of a lot of that vehicle will still be high. You wont get a huge amount for it, but you'd put some cash in your pocket and be rid of the hassle of the car... which to me sounds like the better option versus paying an absolute fortune for imperfect fixes in oder to continue using and being lumbered with a fault-ridden liability you can never get rid of.
- goldieboy0
Get it stolen... wink wink... nudge nudge
- bulletfactory0
No, I don't think there's any way to reattach that tree limb.
- teh0
Don't you have home owners insurance, car insurance or renters insurance? what is your deductible? If its more than $500 Id try to get it totaled and get blue book value of it.
- albums0
Yes, find a salvage version of your ride
Roof: cut out broken part, weld in not broken part
Doors: replace
- PaulYih0
Just buy a truck....it will cost more to fix than it's worth....unless you just want it to go topless.
- scarabin0
do the other side so they match
- PaulYih0
*just buy a new truck
- prophetone0
if you're not fussy, sure, but that ain't ever gonna be an easy fix to get it 100% again. not for the man hours it'll require anyway. at best you'll have to find one with a roof to cut and weld in as per above. good luck!
- prophetone0
an just imaging even if you got a new one welded in and did your best you can predict windshield leaks, probs, etc. which would suck.
- mg330
Even if you have to get a new car, try and find a way to make that one work. Make your own window that fits the new shape for front and side windows and drive it smashed.
- dbloc0
sue the tree
- mg330
You know what they say... when life gives you AIDS, make Lemonaids, or something like that... so I challenge you to ruin the care even more so it's a total eyesore and people are just blown away that it's drivable - mechanically and by choice.
- i_monk0
What *will* your insurance cover in this situation?
- nikdaum0
I think it would be cool to leave the roof but custom cut the glass of the replacement door window.
- MHDC0
I'm not picky tbh, just need it to be drivable. Thats it