So, 2 weeks ago, I unfortunately rear-ended some lady. My fault, I did a head check to merge, looked forward, everyone was stopped, I hit my front right corner on her rear left bumper. Didn't do too much to hers, just a scuff, I on the other hand pretty much totaled my car. My frame was massively bent, my hood pins snapped, and my carbon fiber hood was cracked on the corner, my headlight housing was pushed in about 6 inches, and was wrapped around my intake. I didn't take pictures, I was angry. My fault, I acknowledge that.
So I went out and got it fixed from a acquaintance. He fixes cars all the time, no biggy to him right? He replaced the core support, hood, fender, headlight, and the corner light. EVerything was legit, I didn't have him paint it besides the core support because this wasn't my money. I borrowed 800 for this all to be done and at a different shop it would have been damn near 3k.
Upon picking it up, everything looked good, gaps were perfect, etc. The hood was being held down by a bungee cord. Before I didn't have a hood latch assembly, so I had hood pins, but on this hood I didn't have hood pins so he just thought a bungee cord could work until I got a hood latch assembly.
I had driven the car a total of 52 miles since I got it back fixed. I was driving around doing errands today, and I was going down one of the local high ways that I already was on for about 15 minutes of my driving and yes, the hood snapped up. The bungee cord end snapped off. I played it cool, pulled off the highway, no biggy.
THe windshield is spidered everywhere. No square inche that doesn't have atleast 5 cracks in it. THe top is dented a decent amount with about 4 3 inch ripples before the sun roof, and the sun roof is shattered. The hood is bent to where it would wrap around the top.
Hopefully with all this information the guy that fixed my body better fix this mess up. I'm extremely frustrated and yeah put about 2-3 fist sized dents in the hood.
I got it home fine, I already had a bungee cord spider thing that i used when I got in the accident above to hold the hood down, so I used that to hold this down.
I drove around on differnt local high ways at about 50-65 and nothing happened but it did all of a sudden after the cord snapped so it was definetly shut.
Do you think its his fault for this mis hap since he used a old shitty bungee cord and didn't replace the latch assembly on the light bar?
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So I went out and got it fixed from a acquaintance. He fixes cars all the time, no biggy to him right? He replaced the core support, hood, fender, headlight, and the corner light. EVerything was legit, I didn't have him paint it besides the core support because this wasn't my money. I borrowed 800 for this all to be done and at a different shop it would have been damn near 3k.
Upon picking it up, everything looked good, gaps were perfect, etc. The hood was being held down by a bungee cord. Before I didn't have a hood latch assembly, so I had hood pins, but on this hood I didn't have hood pins so he just thought a bungee cord could work until I got a hood latch assembly.
I had driven the car a total of 52 miles since I got it back fixed. I was driving around doing errands today, and I was going down one of the local high ways that I already was on for about 15 minutes of my driving and yes, the hood snapped up. The bungee cord end snapped off. I played it cool, pulled off the highway, no biggy.
THe windshield is spidered everywhere. No square inche that doesn't have atleast 5 cracks in it. THe top is dented a decent amount with about 4 3 inch ripples before the sun roof, and the sun roof is shattered. The hood is bent to where it would wrap around the top.
Hopefully with all this information the guy that fixed my body better fix this mess up. I'm extremely frustrated and yeah put about 2-3 fist sized dents in the hood.
I got it home fine, I already had a bungee cord spider thing that i used when I got in the accident above to hold the hood down, so I used that to hold this down.
I drove around on differnt local high ways at about 50-65 and nothing happened but it did all of a sudden after the cord snapped so it was definetly shut.
Do you think its his fault for this mis hap since he used a old shitty bungee cord and didn't replace the latch assembly on the light bar?
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