erm had a little 'incident' in the VN this morning. I now need bumper, healight, grill, & bumper support & aswell as SS lip. So will this cheaper to replace myself or should I cough up my excess?? & claim it on my insurance??
Bumper support brand new is like $60. Rest is a U-Pull It job. Only problem would be the SS lip I reckon.
yeah I figured the same, can get the parts cheap enough, all execpt the lip & grill? Not sure if I have had my insurance long enuf to keep my rating 1 or not, so thats why Im hesitant. excess is only $250 for me
Ahhh man, damn shame. She was lookin good, too. It'll be hard to find the -right- parts... parts are easy, but that grille, and that lip, will be a little more expensive. Then getting them painted... For comparison, I fixed my mate's VP for $120. That included two headlights, calais grille, correct-colour front bar, and front bar support.
I wouldnt bother getting a second hand re-enforcemant as brand new they are dirt cheap anyway. But that grill should be fixable quite easy, just a bit of filler or fireglass. If not JC Spares sell them for like $120, so other places would be half that (They want $295 for an instrument cluster!)
um including paint haha.. i just did my self an incident too.. except im 19 so i was up for $850 i snapped the rack front bar front left guard, guard liner, headlight bumper brackets.. thers plenty of second hand **** out there.. just prime it and slap it on and at least u can drive to work and back
just got under to have a suss, & missed aircon & radiator by mm! thank **** for that! brand new rad just before xmas! Bumper will be salvage-able if I dont destroy it getting it off. All the mounts are still there they just popped off lucky! Grill is stuffed & half the SS lip is missing, I doubt that I could even find it if i went back to look, cus that would have been easier option just reglass the lip. Just need to get someone over to give me a hand to unbolt that support, its bent right where the front bolt is on the passenger side so might be a little hard to get at
meh, I pay for bloody insurance, Im going to use it. atleast they have the hassle of finding & fixing SS lip & grill.
and they might paint your car too.. i know a fella who had a crap paint job and someone hit his car and he ended up getting a new paint job cos his was soo bad. cos they can't match paded paint. well that as bad is his was. and yours looks nice and faded
hmmm.. me thinks its time to make the car roadworthy and start drivin greeli slow.. knowing my luck someone wil hit me and they wont be insured.. i want a pink paintjob like this
erm no I dont think they will, when my VKC bumper got 'parked' on by a taxi (I was not at fault) they wanted me to chip in some money to repaint it as the paint wasnt 'good'
yer i think thats right.. at work all that they paint is small areas using airbrush, being a dealership we just replace panels that unbolt, like the bars, bonnet and front guards. i suppose it depends on the level of your insurance and your insurer.. i rekn that if they cant match the paint theyd do a full respray as long as paint damage is part of the claim..
