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Old Jan 12, 2004 | 04:31 PM
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hey guys, unfortunitally last night i hit a big *** pothole after some jackass ran me off the road and my frame is now bent, does anybody know of a ballpark price im lookin at to get it fixed?
Old Jan 12, 2004 | 04:42 PM
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explain bent? i have a bent frame as well, where? how bad?
Old Jan 12, 2004 | 04:50 PM
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no clue i did it last night and he told me just that it is bent and i have to put it on a frame bender and get it back, i hit it with my front right end, how much does it run?
Old Jan 12, 2004 | 04:54 PM
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Probably expensive... I had a friend who dinged his frame and they just had the car totalled instead of fixing it
Old Jan 12, 2004 | 05:03 PM
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do u know a price at all?
Old Jan 12, 2004 | 05:35 PM
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No, sorry not at all, hers was more than4 grand to be fixed because thats what she got for the car to be totalled or wahatever, but im SURE thats far less than that... <edited><editID>Milky</editID><editDate>37998.6745486111</editDate></edited>
Old Jan 12, 2004 | 05:39 PM
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it's not that bad if your drove it home it can be fix...there is not much of a frame in 'stang so you will need to go to a place with a frame machine...they very from 35hr to 75 hr...the dealer is not as option if you want to keep cost don't with out looking at it it could go from 3-8 hrs so you can do the math...you can call around and get shop rates per hour narrow it down the 3-4 and get an est.
Old Jan 12, 2004 | 05:43 PM
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my mom bent the frame of her car once and kept it. it was major sh*tty afterwards. it depends on how bad it is. it might be worth taking out all the mods, engine, etc. and putting them into an identical chassis with a bad engine er somethin and junkin the rest.
Old Jan 12, 2004 | 05:56 PM
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frame or k-member bent?
Old Jan 12, 2004 | 06:41 PM
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Usually if you have a bent frame your car is done, especially on a unibody like the foxes. It would most likely be more cost-effective to just buy another beater with a good chassis like mkspeed said and transfer all your stuff over. Frame work is very expensive and you better make damn sure whoever does it is an expert, because if it's done wrong and the frame is under stress, sooner or later it will relieve itself somewhere in the frame and could cause you a world of hurt.



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