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G29 front end repair video
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q96169we said:Maybe I've watched too many G29 videos so today, youtube push this video to me. It may not be interesting to everyone but it gives a bit insight to the G29 body structure.
https://youtu.be/7pltZLUyKZY
“Damage didn’t look too bad”. He said!
You kidding! It looked like a proper write off to me!!!
This guy is a magician!
I think outside uk, or even Europe, cars with much more damage than this will also be repaired than written off. The main reason of writing off here is that it’s not financially efficient to repair the car. My friend once had an huge accident with his e60 about 15 years ago which the entire front end disappeared and the engine and gearbox were hundreds meters away from the cabin. The car was still repaired and is still being used.ori said:q96169we said:Maybe I've watched too many G29 videos so today, youtube push this video to me. It may not be interesting to everyone but it gives a bit insight to the G29 body structure.
https://youtu.be/7pltZLUyKZY
“Damage didn’t look too bad”. He said!
You kidding! It looked like a proper write off to me!!!
This guy is a magician!
This guy mentioned his work is about 90 hours. Then after the metal work, the car needs repainted, many components need to be repaired, and finally reassembled with a lot reprogramming and re-calibration. If we just look at the metal work and assume £150/h +vat labour cost (BMW’s rate), the metal work itself will cost about £16k. No wonder why it’s a written off.
Not really when insurers see this. If a written off pay out is £45k and the repair bill is £30k plus the insurer need to pay out a lot money for things other than repair the car, the insurer will prefer writing off the car then sell off the remaining useful bits and pieces to recover as much money as possible. The guy in the video repaired a lot of cars using donor parts and these donor parts are basically from those written off cars.ori said:Look it’s a 50k car? So if it cost 30k to repair it’s still cheaper than a replacement.
ori said:Question is how good would be after repair?
Using my friend's E60 in previous reply as example, it's still running after 250k miles. Last time I drove it at about 200k mile and about 2 years ago (multiple further small accident repairs between the big accident and now), it's still handle very well and the whole car was still going strong. I have to say it's been properly repaired after the accident. However, we both think the structural integrity has certainly been pormised compared to the same mileage car but without such big accident. If my friend has the same severity accident again in this car now, he won't be so lucky. So, safety-wise, I agree that my friend's E60 should be written off instead of repaired.
KrusteKlubba
Member
Maybe the sort of project for Matt Armstrong on YT. I’m enjoying his rebuild of a tracked M3…E96?
KrusteKlubba
Member
Wonder how much these repairs affect structural integrity. So many crashes by Russian drivers on dash cam footage might suggest plenty of cut and shut repairs.