Rear damage may not be as bad as we originally thought...
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Rear damage may not be as bad as we originally thought...
Good news:
Looks like all the damage is superficial. Still expensive though. They are up to just over $8,000. Pretty steep for a slow crash with no airbags deployed on any car. Rear hatch needs to be replaced, as do all the rear bumper parts, the exhaust, the front bumper and the bumper shocks. They haven't gotten into the broken seat yet, or the fact that the air suspension is inop. So it'll still probably be $10-12K. But no structural damage at all.
Looks like all the damage is superficial. Still expensive though. They are up to just over $8,000. Pretty steep for a slow crash with no airbags deployed on any car. Rear hatch needs to be replaced, as do all the rear bumper parts, the exhaust, the front bumper and the bumper shocks. They haven't gotten into the broken seat yet, or the fact that the air suspension is inop. So it'll still probably be $10-12K. But no structural damage at all.
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Probably right. Hey...
Any chance I can borrow the trailer late next week? Going to need to get the 911 back from Doug's shop. I'm in a new Saturn Outlook SUV and I need to see if it has a hitch on it though.
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Wish I knew.... car is there and I'm still in my office.
I won't get to join my car until tomorrow.
BTW- Sorry I haven't returned your call. All you-know-what broke loose at work and I've been jammed here. I'll talk to you when i return. Found an old Excellence article that talks about swapping rear torsion bars in a 944. And I found my old specs on how much to change the spring plate angle for each mm of size increase on torsion bar size. Going from 25 to 31 on my car, I was dead on with the right side and off just 1/2" on the left. So the numbers from 15 years ago still work. Will make it much easier on yours.
BTW- Sorry I haven't returned your call. All you-know-what broke loose at work and I've been jammed here. I'll talk to you when i return. Found an old Excellence article that talks about swapping rear torsion bars in a 944. And I found my old specs on how much to change the spring plate angle for each mm of size increase on torsion bar size. Going from 25 to 31 on my car, I was dead on with the right side and off just 1/2" on the left. So the numbers from 15 years ago still work. Will make it much easier on yours.
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