I agree. I look at it and I see somewhere about $10K in damage (including paint, etc) if the work is done by pros at normal shop rates, using new replacement parts. Maybe less.

However, the car is just fine. My own car took much more severe damage, and after repairs it drives just fine on the street and the track.

The thing is that even though there is nothing really wrong with the car other than body work, the parts on this car are very expensive. The headlight that appears to be missing costs about a grand, for instance.

 

**** yea this car is completley repairable. i dont know why all yall ****s gotta act like a bunch of dicks to this kid. if hes messin around then let him **** around, back off his nuts, fo real. let this kid hustle and if he ****s up then hes gonna get shot, straight up!

 

I think it has more to do with the fact that he intended to sell the car and hide from the "lucky new owner" what has been done to it.

If the S2000 is a unibody, and has no "frame..." Then what's the unibody biult around??? Surely the Body panels alone cannot support such dynamic physical forces that a street car must bear. Thus that's why the car has a "X bone Frame." It may not have a frame in the terms you're speaking of, but a frame nonetheless. The car's costruction is actually pretty similar to the Ridgeline. An extra rigid frame with a integrated unibody. I could understand you saying that the S2000 will probably need quite wallop to have damage to it's "frame."

 

Yeah, I had a lot more damage to my car and no frame damage...

Then again, maybe if I had hit it at a 10 degree rotation from where I did, that might be a different story... who knows.
-Doug

 

I hit a concrete wall at about 80 mph. I had frame damage. It was repairable, though.

 

Almost all of the car is repairable. Totaled means the insurance company wrote it off as not worth fixing $$ wise, not that it cant be fixed. Big money tho. $15K probably, about as much as buying another one

The frame can be straightened and what is crushed can be cut off and a new bit welded on.

The S2000 frame is very "old school" body on frame just like a truck. It is nearly indestructible.

 

My opinion is that the damage will exceed 10gs.

I hit a curb a month after I bought my car, and I twisted the wheel just as you did.
It broke the controller arm, bent the sub frame, a-frame, driveshaft, rotor, and everything else in the corner except for the wheel and spring. NO body damage at all, and I slid into the curb at 15mph. It was 6gs to fix.

 

I dont think it would cost near that much to fix. I say around 5-6k.

 

just part it out , at good prices you'll still make most of your cash back , and members here would appreciate , ,

 

When I bought my car the carfax showed nothing but the guy told me straight up it was in an accident and he fixed it at the honda dealership he bought it at and he included all the paperwork. I was happy he told me and still payed his asking price.


If you part the car out pm me, I'm looking for the driver side rug not the mat.