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Originally Posted by masraum
Fantastic! Looks great, congrats on getting your baby back. It's not uncommon for the initial estimate to be low. Enjoy!
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Thanks!
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Originally Posted by speeder
That's awesome but why did a fairly simple repair take a year? 
I wouldn't change the oil for nothing. Just drive the snot out of it and get it cooking. Nothing happened to your brand new oil sitting in the sump for a year. I'm a maintenance freak but the idea that oil goes bad sitting in an engine is BS, unless it's 50 years or something. IMO, of course. |
Well, I made the mistake of telling them to take their time, it's not my daily driver and no rush. They took me seriously
I'm glad they didn't rush it though because they really did do a great job.
Thanks for the advice on the oil. I read many differing opinions about the age of the oil etc and figured it was cheap insurance. But I may just "drive the snot out of it" this weekend since we finally have some decent weather.
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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6
Car looks great, congratulations! For $11.5K, I imagine it had to go on a Celette and be pulled.
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No Celette, thank goodness. Just lots of hidden damage and paint and body labor. Plus all OEM parts (except the front embellisher aka valence and spoiler) added up. They had to blend the hood, firewall, door and a couple other areas, too. The bumper was able to be repaired but they had to order a new bumper shock because the old one was slightly tweaked. The part took several weeks to arrive from Germany. They sublet the headlights and alignment work and that took about a month at another shop.
