[alfa] re: Update on my GTV6

[Joe Elliott <jee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I still can't claim to know what I'm talking about in the area of 
bodywork, but I wouldn't worry about straightening a unibody on a 
frame rack.  It's the cut-and-weld sort of unibody frame repair that 
you should be afraid of.  Granted, the accident-and-straightening 
procedure bends your car into the steel's region of plastic 
deformation and then back, which doesn't help the usable life of the 
steel, but doing it once shouldn't affect anything appreciably.  Now 
if you were to get rear-ended and repaired once a week, that might 
eventually weaken the frame.

-Joe

At 8:20 PM +0000 9/16/03, alfa-digest wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:46:19 -0700
> From: dlou <dlou@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] Update on my GTV6
>
> For those that were following my rear-ended GTV6, the adjuster came
> by and wrote me a check for the repairs.  It missed being totalled, but
> not by much.  Quoting the alternate price guides helped, I think.
> However, it's going to need time on the rack to repair the damaged frame
> and I'm not all that trusting of unibody frame repairs :(
>
> So, my options are now:
>
> 1. Get it fixed.  Keep driving it.
> 2. Get it fixed.  Sell it.
>    (disclosing frame damage is likely going to affect resale price severely)
> 3a. Pocket the cash.  Sell it.
> 3b. Pocket the cash.  Part it out.
>
> So for the vultures out there, it's not quite ready to be picked at yet :-)
>
> - -Dennis
> Sunnyvale, CA
> '85 GTV6 (a bit bent)
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