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    is this totaled??? my sig is very true

    Im drivin down the street yesterday and my hood is stickin up 2 inches on the passenger side so i pull over n pop my hood to find that my shock tower is basically gone...tell me what you think i should do....if theres anyway to fix this.






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    damn....thats all ive got to say.......
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    looks pretty fuct to me

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    Yeah you're fucked. I've never seen rust like that in a 3G before.
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    Re: is this totaled??? my sig is very true

    yaa. i was thinkin if i take the spring and strut off the gap will be gone and maybe i can have some place weld it somehow?
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    my god! there is no way to just "weld that together" you would seriously need to weld in an entire front right quarter of another car. your arm, frame, spring...its all shot. and im gonna guess the rest of the car looks about the same.
    time for a new car bro.

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    ya i figured id here that lol...im about to go look for an accident to get in with it lol
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    Re: is this totaled??? my sig is very true

    Yeah, just drive it into a pole or something. Be sure to duck.

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    I'd be scared to crash that rust-bucket into anything. New car time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zacritz929
    ya i figured id here that lol...im about to go look for an accident to get in with it lol
    Not a bad idea at least you'll get some money out of it.

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    def time to junk it. all the effore you will spend trying to fix it and wont be close to orginial and you can find a new one cheeper. that why i got rid of my hatch
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    That is definitly totaled. There probaly is not that much you can salvage, besides the engine.
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    yeah, with rust that bad, you'd be hard pressed finding clean metal to weld to.

    part what's good and scrap the car.

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    yeah try to get some money off it..take out all the parts that are worth anyting... (shhhhu u didnt hear it from my but my uncle sprayed some brake cleaner on the paint and it goes mest up, he reported it stolen...broke the rear pass window...and parked it on this lonly part of town and the cops found it...he got 1690 bucks for it....oh yeah it was a shitty 92 mazda that keep dieing...it was not worth fixing up so now he has a nicer mazda turbo)

    dont try to fix that...just get a 89 honda accord SE-I(fuel injection is cool)

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    Re: is this totaled??? my sig is very true

    looks very unsafe to drive. i'd not risk it. if you are going to drive it, you better unbolt the brake lines mount that are pictured in the 2nd pic you posted. that wont be good if you rip those apart with the strut tower pulling up on them. looks like you could fix it definately, but you'd really want to get a good shop to do it that can measure things up and do it correctly. good luck finding that panel though, maybe besides one off a car at a junk yard.
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    Re: is this totaled??? my sig is very true

    As long as the frame's still good, you can possibly fix it. You're not going to be able to do it yourself, and it's going to cost you a lot more than the car is worth. If you choose to keep the car, you're then going to have to spend a long, long time going over the body and removing/repairing the rest of the rust, because when it's that bad, that's not the only place it's going to be, and something like that will just happen again. If you have some sentimental attachment to it, and really think it's worth restoring, go for it!

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    um. theres no possibility to fix that.l theres probably not a square centameter of decent un rusted metal to weld too. its not worth a damn dime to fix. buy a new car.

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    R.I.P

    It could be fixed, but I reaalllyyy doubt that the rest of the car is worth it to fix that up.


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    just imagine what the other side looks like.
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    no, believe me i've seen worse than this and it looks to be totally fixable. its just most people dont have access to a body shop that they can do themselves. i'd estimate the cost of fixing that at anywhere between $800-$1400. parts and labor included. but that really depends where you get it done also, many shops are quite different in how they charge you. i'd just recommend buying another 3gee, if you really like them as much as i do, and use this car as just a parts car.
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    Ain't mid-west snow removal a bitch thats what salting roads around here does to everything... find another one it's just the beginning everythingelse you can't see under there looks just like it It's like cancer you fix one spot and it hits somewherelse It's a no win find a car from south of the mason-dixon line where salt is for fries

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    ^ good one
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    ya..im gonna part it out
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    Re: is this totaled??? my sig is very true

    the only time ive seen rust like that around the shock towers is on my first car, the 87 accord. It only started rusting like that (that bad anyway) after it died and I got the 89 and used the 87 for parts. It was parked on grass for about 2 years when I noticed it rusting like that.

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    Re: is this totaled??? my sig is very true

    Quote Originally Posted by HondaBoy
    no, believe me i've seen worse than this and it looks to be totally fixable. its just most people dont have access to a body shop that they can do themselves. i'd estimate the cost of fixing that at anywhere between $800-$1400. parts and labor included. but that really depends where you get it done also, many shops are quite different in how they charge you. i'd just recommend buying another 3gee, if you really like them as much as i do, and use this car as just a parts car.
    Is that really all you think it would cost?
    Holy shit I was estimating a LOT more than that.

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