• ExtraPartsLeft@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This article is misleading. If a car crash is bad enough that it damages the frame of a car, it’s going to get totalled anyway. So either way it’s going to go to a junk yard and get slowly parted out.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      No. These cast parts take up a lot more area. They will get damaged much more frequently than a frame being damaged.

    • FireTower@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Lots of ‘totaled’ cars that still function fine get shipped to other countries with less picky used car markets too.

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        1 year ago

        I once took a taxi in Addis Ababa that had slicks and a view of the road under the car. Very fancy.

    • Critical_Insight@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Not necessarily. On some vehicles the exterior panels are part of the frame and you may only have cosmetic damage but fixing it would costs tens of thousands.

    • Chunk@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not true. Some idiot t boned me and they had to replace the frame of my car. It cost her $7k and my car is worth about twice that today.

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        You can contest that you were not fully reimbursed for the expense/what you have received in not equivalent in value to what you had.