jr 
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[quote="wolfylad"]Hi, whilst i had my 3 door in the garage getting a wheel bearing done, they decided to take it out to clean it and crashed it. It has ripped the front passengerside wing off, bent the bonnet and smashed the grille. Is it still possible to source the original panels? as the garage are going to repair it. Or should i take a different route?  
It was a straight 50k car with no damage history   
 
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how the hell do you tear a wing open like that?  
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paul.mitchell1984 
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what did they crash into a combined harvestor, ebay for original wings??
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cunningham 
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oft looks sore someone done that to a guys s2k up here but completly wrote the car off then did a runner 
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MikeE 
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fcuking w@nkers  
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ouch...    
 
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oops
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Stoneyginger 
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i would be going mental  
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mav 
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   nightmare that.. 
 
Happened in my bro in laws garage to a wide arch flip painted astra, it sort of went on fire.. 
 
But happening to a car like that is worse 
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id be fucking fuming i wouldnt accept it back until i was satisfied that it was repaired 100% perfect
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Robin 
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I think I'd be fairly angry too.
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They crash it into an industrial can-opener?     
 
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jr 
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from him on PF to 
 
[quote="wolfylad"]The owner said one of the younger mechanics come round the corner and caught the step on a luton van?     
He then phoned me to say they had damaged the wing, (how do i put pics on here). 
They have said hey will get it repaired, but it wont be the same, am i within my rights to not want it back as if you can no longer get wings/innerwings/grilles and bonnets etc how can they repair it properly? 
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Rob B 
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Thats shit id never take a car like to a garage    
 
Was round my mates today and hes got a RS500 cossie same as that immaculate it is and hes building a mk1 escort in the shed aswell..have no pics tho  
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OMFG
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SportBoy 
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lol oops .. when you work in a garage its a occupational hazard .. just unlucky its was a 3dr coss lol   .. we get some cars in asn i dont want to drive them in fear of damageing them .. my friends 800bhp skyline for expample  but he insisted lol   
 
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jr 
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it would be occupational, hadd it happend in a car park, instead of the youngest tech road testing it and taking it to a car wash ?
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I wouldnt take it back, a car's never the same once its been crashed 
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ClaireF 
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wish do that to mine.
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SportBoy 
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just because he was driving a cossy doesnt mean he was driving to fast .. shit happens . if they are telling the truth and he caught the back of a van etc then it could of happend in any car ... chances are he was driving like a pleb tho so he could see what a coss is like
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jr 
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true, but he has no idea why it was beeing driven to be cleaned as he said it was mint when it was dropped off, and if you look at the pics it still clean ?
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just an excuse to drive it, they wouldnt have bothered if it was a yugo.
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Gregor 
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What sort of garage did he take it to ?
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is the chassis bent?
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Robin 
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yeah, I used to do that all the time, but our yard was massive, so you didn't run the risk of crashing  
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