a pic of my broken beast!
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alloypearltam said:Nothing like the same thing. Metal cars generally = monocoque, the skin is part of the main structural strength of the car. The TVR has a massive steel chassis, and to bend that takes a severe impact; the fibreglass is there to keep water off the rest of it and look pretty. Ok, it also helps with impact absorption. Glancing blows might remove a lot of glassfibre, but a competant bodyshop can soon replace a wing. The wheels look straight, the wishbones would collapse preferentially before any impact force was brought to bear on the chassis itself. That looks mainly cosmetic. A couple of grands worth of bodyshop work maybe.
Is that really the case? I have no experience of crunched TVR's, but couldn't the front section just be replaced?
Apologies if that sounds mad, but I have only experience repairs of metal cars.
>> Edited by victormeldrew on Sunday 1st January 20:45
dinkel said:
I can't see the real damage . . . apart from the plastic. How can you tell it's a bad?
I said it looks bad... I mean I could say it doesnt look that bad, but compared to a once pristine cerbera, its bad.
And of course anything can be fixed, but its the labour costs of such work, respray, other mechanical checks, electrics, cant see from this pic, but oil loss? gearbox damage? how about geometry gone pair shaped? maybe the shocks took a battering at speed? maybe something ripped of the car in front and went underneath causing more damage? bits flew along the body scratching the paint work up, so more costs... so many maybes... so, its simpler saying it looks bad.... The fact she still got her wheels on doesnt necessarily mean she's ok...
That really doesn't look too bad.....alright, it looks bad, but......
There doesn't look to be any real damage to engine / chassis / suspension, and you'd be amazed at the quality of a decent fibreglass repair.
As a comparison, my Tuscan was damaged in the same corner, with virtually the same bodywork damage, but with added suspension and wheel bendage.....oh, and it also needed a new chassis, but t'was all sorted under the insurance and is now good as (no, better than) new.
Chin up mate!
These things always seem worse straight after, but the main thing is you're OK
There doesn't look to be any real damage to engine / chassis / suspension, and you'd be amazed at the quality of a decent fibreglass repair.
As a comparison, my Tuscan was damaged in the same corner, with virtually the same bodywork damage, but with added suspension and wheel bendage.....oh, and it also needed a new chassis, but t'was all sorted under the insurance and is now good as (no, better than) new.
Chin up mate!
These things always seem worse straight after, but the main thing is you're OK
Maybe's aside, looking at the visible damage I'd say that was WAY short of a write-off. I've seen TVR's looking a lot worse than get patched up as good or better than new in no time. Don't let the doom-mongers get you down; TVR's are hardy beasts, and yours is far from dead.
Unlike this one ...
>> Edited by victormeldrew on Sunday 1st January 21:32
Unlike this one ...
>> Edited by victormeldrew on Sunday 1st January 21:32
Compared to the amount of 'fibre work in a headlamp conversion, £5/7k sounds bloody expensive for that amount of bodywork.
Still, if it is written off with that little damage I'm sure there'll be plenty of interest in buying the "wreck". Can I be at the front of the queue?
One of these panels and a new bonnet should do the job:
>> Edited by victormeldrew on Sunday 1st January 21:46
Still, if it is written off with that little damage I'm sure there'll be plenty of interest in buying the "wreck". Can I be at the front of the queue?
One of these panels and a new bonnet should do the job:
>> Edited by victormeldrew on Sunday 1st January 21:46
chin up buddy, could have been 10 times worse.....
i,ve come across TVR's more severely damaged than yours.
once saw a chim that had a serious rear end collision the whole rear end collapsed suspension, fuel tank, everything was battered but the car was back on the road within a month!
a good GRP specialist will sort that front wing damage out no probs.
remember TVR's are replaceable, people are not. take care out there folks!
i,ve come across TVR's more severely damaged than yours.
once saw a chim that had a serious rear end collision the whole rear end collapsed suspension, fuel tank, everything was battered but the car was back on the road within a month!
a good GRP specialist will sort that front wing damage out no probs.
remember TVR's are replaceable, people are not. take care out there folks!
jellison said:
That is just scratch.
Ok, maybe needs a couple of stitches, but if the chassis is straight, it should be a straightforward fix. There are advantages to an unstressed outer skin, and Cerbs are bloody strong. And good ones are worth hanging on to..
Hope you get it fixed without hassle. So much depends on the other party's insurer: we got hit in a Volvo T5 when a tired soldier changed lanes on the M25 suddenly in an Army transporter. 38 tons meets 1.7. Not good. Due to the leader of the column pulling over, and doing the paperwork, we had everything repaired in about 3 weeks. T5s are also bloody strong
the only structural damage i could see was the wheel had been shuved back a couple of inches!
but it still looked straight, when the collision happened i remember oil squirting every where, was led to believe it was coming from the smashed oil cooler, im sure i turned it off in time maybe a couple of seconds!
theres no wheel damage and no screen damage
am i building my hopes up for nothing?
but it still looked straight, when the collision happened i remember oil squirting every where, was led to believe it was coming from the smashed oil cooler, im sure i turned it off in time maybe a couple of seconds!
theres no wheel damage and no screen damage
am i building my hopes up for nothing?
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