Seabee1993

So I had a fender bender and put my 2000 GT in a ditch where point of impact was almost to the outside of the passenger bumper. All that energy of course buckled the fenders, hood, and broke the radiator mount.
Now I met with the insurance guy, and he wants to have it towed to the body shop and have it put on the rack to test frame alignment. How is this accomplished in our cars when it's unibody? I'm just not seeing where this is going with this being done. Thanks for your insight/advice.

Seabee1993

Bump!

69MustangCoupe393cid

They're going to measure certain points on the car to see how true it is. I can almost with 100% certainty tell you it's going to be totaled (this is of course without seeing the pics and going based on your description). I assume your bags went off and with that kind of damage on that year car, they will probably total it out. They could be on edge and debating totaling the car and of course if the unibody is tweaked the car will be totaled out, if not maybe they will decide to fix it.

Do you have any pics of the car? I assume it's decent damage if you bent the rad support. The front end of stangs are pretty solid, but if you give them a good shot you can bend them just like anything else. I'm sure they are going to use lasers to see how straight the body is. If it's not bad an everything can align, have it fixed. If it's really tweaked just grab another stang, there are tons out there.

Seabee1993

Thanks for the insight. I have pics but I have no idea how to load the photos from an iPhone.

PNYXPRESS

Did the airbags pop? It doesnt take much to bend the rad support in front of the shock towers on these cars. It does however, take quite an impact to bend them behind the shocks though. Airbags cost ~$2300 to replace in these cars, when replacing with new.

Seabee1993

Ok, so heres the photos I do have from my phone. My car only has 57K so hopefully that is a factor that plays out in my favor. No air bag deployment, no glass cracked. I think what also minimized the damage was the ditch was primarily beach sand/clay mix, vice clay, or top soil.

http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...psd2b787fe.jpg

http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...ps541cea31.jpg

http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6b44531d.jpg

PNYXPRESS

Cant see the images, but is the airbags didnt pop then you may get away with just throwing a hood fenders and bumper on it and pulling the rad support back out.

Seabee1993

Is the image problem from me posting, or you're on something that won't display them? Just trying to figure this out, I edited like three times trying to make the images right. LOL

DocSnickers

In photobucket don't just copy the link. Look for the imaged links on the right that says embed and it will give you a link that looks something like this *[img]http:www.photobucket.com/whatever.jpg[/img]* without the ** around it just did that so it would not try to make an image out of that.

Seabee1993

Finally! LOL