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[02richt1]

concidering buying the car back and repairing my self,

 

is there anyone local to the Farnham,Surrey area that has done anything like this beofre and could maybe come take a look at it with me before i concider buying?

[jackturbostage4]

How much is buy back it's very dear repair by the looks of the hit . Ring back on track .

[techieboy]

I thought the tub was damaged and it's therefore unrepairable.

[fezzasus]

concidering buying the car back and repairing my self,

 

is there anyone local to the Farnham,Surrey area that has done anything like this beofre and could maybe come take a look at it with me before i concider buying?

 

Do not buy it back. You cannot repair these chassis. The construction is unique and very difficult, I would say impossible, to attempt yourself. 

[02richt1]

Bodyshop didnt write the car of, just the vaule of repair was £7000 using genuine oem parts and was £1000 over what the insurance was willing to pay!

[techieboy]

Bodyshop/insurance assessor don't know sh!t. The door hinge mounts are part of the tub. The tub is damaged and not repairable and should therefore be a Cat B write off.

[fezzasus]

Bodyshop didnt write the car of, just the vaule of repair was £7000 using genuine oem parts and was £1000 over what the insurance was willing to pay!

 

They were incorrect. The chassis has been damaged, you can't bond the chassis correctly without putting the whole car into an oven, you can't weld it without weakening it, you can't straighten it without weakening it.

 

The door mount has been pushed into the door, this has bent the entire structure which is not only part of the chassis, but a load bearing component. Given that your car is relatively standard, your best option is to scrap the car and buy another.

 

Area circled in purple is damaged. It is not repairable, nor should it be repaired, it will compromise the strength of the entire chassis.

 

[VIX]

Bodyshop didnt write the car of,

So which VX/Lotus specialist did you take it to?

[Claws]

Imran's brother

[VX Boyd]

Take a payout and get a new one.

[vocky]

the correct position of the door mounting post is outlined in blue, the red is where the door mounting post is on your car 

 

 

Edited by vocky, 30 January 2014 - 08:57 AM.

[JG]

And this is how it looks on the car:

 

[CocoPops]

Oooh, that highlights it nicely when in conjunction with vocky's pic.

 

That's fcuked!

[mbes2]

Buy it back cheap, turn it in to a track slag.. sell off all the bits you remove to make it lighter.. 

[techieboy]

Might be the picture but the bottom of the tub doesn't look exactly parallel to the ground any more, either. So not much good for a track slag.

[slindborg]

Buy it back cheap, turn it in to a track slag.. sell off all the bits you remove to make it lighter.. 

 

 

If the door mount damage is as bad as stated then would you REALLY want to track a car with a compromised chassis?

[smiley]

 

 

 

If the door mount damage is as bad as stated then would you REALLY want to track a car with a compromised chassis?

 

 

We can't see the actual damage to the chassis.

All we see is that the bolted doorhinge has been ripped out of the allow. To see the state of the alloy, the sill needs to come off. 

[vocky]

 

 

 

All we see is that the bolted door hinge has been ripped out of the alloy.  

 

no, the door hinge should stick outwards like the picture of the bare chassis above, this one has been smashed backwards bending the actual alloy cross member which held the hinge, so quite some impact 

Edited by vocky, 30 January 2014 - 01:58 PM.

[smiley]

 

no, the door hinge should stick outwards like the picture of the bare chassis above, this one has been smashed backwards bending the actual alloy cross member which held the hinge, so quite some impact 

 

 

Yes, i see it now. That's pretty much toast indeed.

 

[Gedi]

That's a great pic smiley, it highlights the damage even better than the previous pics

Edited by Gedi, 30 January 2014 - 02:34 PM.