as you may know in april my car was parked in the street and a lorry tried to park in a gap in front of where my car was parked. he failed what a burk the back end of the lorry has a huge steel bar that runs across the back, acting as a bumper. when he turned into the space and he caught my drivers side front wheel and wing and bumper it went through insurance and they took my car away to be repaired i knew it would be an insurance loss and couldnt believe the old fartknocker insurance assessor they sent round to my house to asses my car i told him i was in the job, and had been for 23 years . he overlooked to many things for my likeing ! given the nature of the accident my wheel took the impact first (my car was moved about 1 feet) . my concerns were about tracking / camber / steering/ strut damage/ wheel damage/ steering rack . he overlooked all this and wrote down on his note pad my car was still road worthy and needed a new wing , indicator , bumper repair and a new plastic wheel arch guard. i wasnt to happy about this and said what about the wheel ? strut etc ............... he put down for the wheel to be refurbished its polished alloy with an acrylic heat shrink ! (that means its a type of wheel that can not be polished ) i was dealing with a complete moron here i told him the car needs checking for wheel alignment and how do you come to the assumption that the car is road worthy by just looking and kneeling down to have a quick glance underneath !!!!!!! complete idiot ! i wanted to kick his arse there and then i knew the car would be an insurance loss because i knew the wheels on my car could only be bought in a set of 4 . i told him this but wouldnt have it ............. so they took my car away to be repaired then nearly a month later i get a call from my insurers to say the car is an uneconomical insurance loss clever twits ! we cant buy a single wheel for your car , they can only be bought in sets of 4 !! so after a month of being messed about , i get my car back. they gave me my car back and a cheque for £1500. result first thing was to check the steering etc . the tracking needed doing and thats it wheel not buckled , no strut damage . i needed a toblerone indicator ( £12.50 ) and i knocked out the wing and repaired it myself and painted it at a cost of nothing more than my time ( total 7 hours ) there was a tear in the bumper where it meets the wing . i just plastic welded it and its solid. here are some pics of the car


this shows the wing gap ! the wing was pushed against the bonnet











this shows the dent in the wing , the snapped end of the indicator , the wing lip bent under and the damage to the wheel








you can just about see the tear in the bumper just at the end near the indicator








i straightened the wing up and panel beat the wing dent out and re shaped the wing lip
you can see the tear in the bumper now








i repaired it and got it into primer







preped it ready to paint and masked up











paint








and all i need to do now is paint the end of the indicator

Ouch! I bet that hurt! Looks good now though. Good job marc.

Verygood job there pitty it needed doing in the 1st place though

thats mad!

brilliant job on the repair

very nice repair

Can do my bonnet next

great job mate, you could never tell its been in an accident some one my just judge your parking skills with the kirbed wheel

bugger ! well there's one thing that more than makes up for it dan the car actually stands me at nothing now result

bugger ! well there's one thing that more than makes up for it dan the car actually stands me at nothing now result

is the insurance effected that much now?

i wouldnt have thought so dan ! no one has claimed off my insurance . although my car was a right off it was still classed as road worthy . it was purley down to the cost of having to buy a set of 4 wheels that made it a right off.