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- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!agate!haas.berkeley.edu!stanton
- From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Advice needed after poor (but expensive) body work
- Date: 2 Sep 1992 18:31:09 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- About 4 months ago, I was involved in an accident where an uninsured motorist
- shot through a stop sign and hit my car (a 1988 Ford Nustang GT convetible)
- hard in the passenger door.
-
- The car was towed to a body shop, where they told me that there was no real
- structural damage, but a lot of work needed doing on the dorr and
- surrounding area. The insurance adjuster agreed to their estimate of
- about $8,000 in repairs, which were done over the next month.
-
- Since then, while the car drives fine, I've noticed a lot of little
- things wrong, (such as the color of the new door being wrong where you
- can see it when you put the top back). In addition, when I just took it
- in for a service, the guy who did the service told me that the work
- had been poorly performed, and that while it looked OK from outside,
- a lot was hidden under the car. He said that in his opinion this was a
- car that had had a major accident, and would be hard to sell.
- When I asked him to tell me how much I'd get for the car, he "took the 5th".
-
- It's obviously rather late to try and get the acr totaled, but I was assured
- by the body shop who did the work that the car would be worth as much after
- the repairs as it was before the accident. I'm not particularly keen to
- end up thousands of dollars out of pocket.
-
- What are my best options at this point?
-
- Thanks for any suggestions
-
- Richard Stanton
-