totaled two times in two years
My girlfriend drives a 1996 2.2 auto accord lx. Mods..none, well acura alloys and an exhaust tip from one side of a 2000 v6 accord.About two years ago someone ran a red light and bam. She was in the passenger seat with no injury. The safety features just 3 years after the cb are astounding. If she was in my car she would have been crushed. Now back to the car. It had a couple dents as seen here
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The b pillar was pushed in about a foot near the middle.After a few months of sledge hammering, test fitting and finally finding white doors at the junk yard the car looked pretty good, and drove great.
Then on July 10th a storm blew through Columbus Ohio.
Here you can see passenger side repairs. Note the gold pin stripes, for style I left them on. The car as you see it in the picture only has windsheild damage, the tree beach curved down into the windshield then back up over the a pillar. I repeat no sheet metal damage. [IMG]
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As soon as the fire men arrived they cut the fallen branch away from the tree and crunch they totaled the car. Wrinkled roof fender and hood. I will try to put the video my g/f took of the firemen "saving" her car. The angst you hear from her as her car crunches and crinkles is hilarious. She sounds like she is watching a murder as they slide the branch over the front driver fender of her car. My photo showing damage before any repair won't load I will get it up later.
Here is after I kicked the roof dent and windshield frame so the windshield could be installed and straightened the hood and fender so they did not overlap.
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This is the fourth wind shield in this car since she owned it. I only have extra passenger mirrors, but her brother had a driver side mirror from a 1998 cl. They are identical. Now I need a fender and hood.
Now saying it was totaled this time is only by my estimate. She did not carry comp coverage because it is already a salvage title. The damage repairs would exceed vehicle value though imo. Fender, hood, a pillar, wind shield and roof. She now considers her car a true survivor. I consider it lucky if I even put a 15 dollar j/y white mirror into it.
It is very solid mechanicaly, good motor, tranny and so fourth. I'm just not looking toward to spending money on a car with no resale value. I will though, slowly this 1996 accord will return to, well a 1996 2.2 auto accord lx.
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[/IMG]The b pillar was pushed in about a foot near the middle.After a few months of sledge hammering, test fitting and finally finding white doors at the junk yard the car looked pretty good, and drove great.
Then on July 10th a storm blew through Columbus Ohio.
Here you can see passenger side repairs. Note the gold pin stripes, for style I left them on. The car as you see it in the picture only has windsheild damage, the tree beach curved down into the windshield then back up over the a pillar. I repeat no sheet metal damage. [IMG]
[/IMG]As soon as the fire men arrived they cut the fallen branch away from the tree and crunch they totaled the car. Wrinkled roof fender and hood. I will try to put the video my g/f took of the firemen "saving" her car. The angst you hear from her as her car crunches and crinkles is hilarious. She sounds like she is watching a murder as they slide the branch over the front driver fender of her car. My photo showing damage before any repair won't load I will get it up later.
Here is after I kicked the roof dent and windshield frame so the windshield could be installed and straightened the hood and fender so they did not overlap.
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[/IMG]This is the fourth wind shield in this car since she owned it. I only have extra passenger mirrors, but her brother had a driver side mirror from a 1998 cl. They are identical. Now I need a fender and hood.
Now saying it was totaled this time is only by my estimate. She did not carry comp coverage because it is already a salvage title. The damage repairs would exceed vehicle value though imo. Fender, hood, a pillar, wind shield and roof. She now considers her car a true survivor. I consider it lucky if I even put a 15 dollar j/y white mirror into it.
It is very solid mechanicaly, good motor, tranny and so fourth. I'm just not looking toward to spending money on a car with no resale value. I will though, slowly this 1996 accord will return to, well a 1996 2.2 auto accord lx.
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