I was informed that a car backed into it and caused damage to the front passenger side. Which made sense since when I opened the hood I could see repairs were made to the fiberglass.
However, today while my mechanic was looking under the car for a gas/gas vapor leak, he noticed that my passenger side rear tire rubbed a hole through my wheel well covers in two places.
So if your kneeling in front of the wheel rear passenger side tire. The first area that is/was rubbing is the inner left part of the tire (toward the frame) and the right side front part (treading part of the tire) .
We also noticed that rear passenger side tire seem to be more forward then the rear driver's side tire. In other words, I could fit two fingers in between the wheel well and the tire on the rear drivers side but not on the (possibly damaged) rear passenger side. There is less distance between the tire and the wheel well as if the rear passenger tire was pushed forward.
Not only that, if you stand behind the car, we could notice that the passenger side rear tire does not seem to be flush with the wheel well like the rear driver side wheel. In other words, the passenger side rear tire seems to be pushed in slightly.
My mechanic says that the car seems to have been crashed into at an angle from the back so that the tire/rim was pushed in. More evidence of such is that the foam covering the rear metal frame/back bumper is broken off on the same side as the pushed in rear passenger side tire.
My question to everyone is if my rear passenger tire is pushed in and forced forward slightly what would need to be done to have it put back into place? and how expensive would it be.
I hoping I unknowing bought an unrepairable C5.
I'm going to have this car looked at a body shop, but I want to have some idea of what I may be dealing with.
Thanks for the help
Last edited by endryck396; 10-24-2009 at 04:28 AM.
never buy a salvage car that has been repaired. the damage was more than the car was worth. you need to take it to a good shop with a frame machine . they can trace the damage and find out how it was hit. good luck with it.
The reason you purchased a "SALVAGE titled car" is just that. JUST FOR PARTS...
When a car goes to "salvage" is that the costs to repair are USUALLY greater than 75% of the cars value.
Make sure that you take it to a shop that can "set-up" and CORRECTLY MEASURE the frame. You may have ...what we call a "diamond" in the frame...so to speak.
Getting this corrected...so the car does not "stage coach" while going down the road...because your wheel set-back...and frame are not correct....and may be expensive.....and not worth it. The frame shop can fill you in on this....and they should be able to let you see what is going on with it.
When and IF the frame is being "pulled" back...IT MUST in most cases be brought back to within 2 millimeters of perfect. This is precision built car...and if the foundation is not right....it just gets worse the further out you go.
Good luck with this....and if you choose to "fudge" thinigs to get it on the road...because "others" say it will work...you will be the one who will find out if they are correct or not.
"DUB"
The car is on the road and looks and drive well. Only a trained eye could notice that the car was worked on at some point.
Thank you for your honest responses. Not what I wanted to hear, but I've learned my lesson. Hopefully it's not beyond repair because the car is great otherwise. I probably would not have noticed the damage if my mechanic had not pointed it out. I'll have to get rid of it if it deemed to be unsafe.
I guess i'll find out next week.
Last edited by endryck396; 10-24-2009 at 04:37 PM.
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