My $500 Honda Accord has been a great car and we drove it all over the country in the first few years. With the loss of our Kia Sportage we started to rely on it much more for daily duty until my wife got into an accident which is essentially a mirror of the damage it received when my brother in law owned the car.
The repair estimate for what looked like moderate damage was $5400. I understand with the previous accident history, there's little point in paying this kind of money to repair it, but I know there's still lots of life left in it as an around town car or to let my daughter use it as a junker.
I'm having the car towed back from the collision place and hope to replace a few suspension components and have a mostly working car even if it's not visually perfect.
Easy come, easy go? Maybe not. I don't want to junk another car if I can help it.
I should have the Honda back on the road with the new rear control arm and we should be able to drive it to get some repair estimates on kinda fixing some of the body damage. I think there's a problem with the fuel sender since the gas gauge doesn't move from the resting position.
I was having some trouble ordering the correct bolt for the control arm, I needed the adjustable toe bolt and ordered the wrong part resulting in another week delay before she's driveable.
After fixing the bent control arm, I removed the fuel pump to find a full tank and discovered a small part that is designed to hold the float in place broke off from the force of the accident. The float was just flopping around when I pulled the pump assembly out. After examining the thing for a few minutes, I found a way of securing a zip tie to act as the guide for the float and spent another few minutes trying to get the arm oriented properly to make contact with the resistor and buttoned everything back up. Going to go for a shake out drive to see if there are any weird noises to worry about.
I heard there's a collision place near by that might be much cheaper. I really only want to pull that dent out enough to mount a new bumper cover. It doesn't need to look pretty. I visited that collision place and the owner said he would call me but he never returned my calls. I guess there was not enough profit for him and too many cars waiting for repairs to worry about my perfectly drive-able car.
The repair estimate for what looked like moderate damage was $5400. I understand with the previous accident history, there's little point in paying this kind of money to repair it, but I know there's still lots of life left in it as an around town car or to let my daughter use it as a junker.
I'm having the car towed back from the collision place and hope to replace a few suspension components and have a mostly working car even if it's not visually perfect.
Easy come, easy go? Maybe not. I don't want to junk another car if I can help it.
I should have the Honda back on the road with the new rear control arm and we should be able to drive it to get some repair estimates on kinda fixing some of the body damage. I think there's a problem with the fuel sender since the gas gauge doesn't move from the resting position.
I was having some trouble ordering the correct bolt for the control arm, I needed the adjustable toe bolt and ordered the wrong part resulting in another week delay before she's driveable.
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| This is the only damaged part that I could find under the car |
I heard there's a collision place near by that might be much cheaper. I really only want to pull that dent out enough to mount a new bumper cover. It doesn't need to look pretty. I visited that collision place and the owner said he would call me but he never returned my calls. I guess there was not enough profit for him and too many cars waiting for repairs to worry about my perfectly drive-able car.
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