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CAT N is bodywork damage with no damage to the Chassis itself no need to have a test to get back on the road. I replaced both front wings, crash bar, front bumper, under trays, one headlight unit and the airbag units. Re-sprayed both front wings and bumper back to the Imola Orange colour, all in all about 1k in parts and paint. It took about a week in total to get it back on the road.
yeah, you can see why the insurer would shy away. mine had minor front end damage but a new headlight is over £700 alone i think..
mine had to have entire front end painted from a destroyed bumper so cost thousands and the wing badges took the paint off so had to do the doors too..
i imagine that Orange might be hard to match too so the risk of customer rejecting it.
£1k, wow! I've had front wings replaced before (neighbour reversed into me) and to do just one cost over £1k. (most of that was painting as the wings themselves aren't too expensive)
That is quite impressive and it looks like it's turned out well.
It's usual to have to chase imola all round the car, as it is difficult to match. I know that happened to a long beach blue NSX. What started off as a minor front bumper repair turned into a respray.
yeah, you can see why the insurer would shy away. mine had minor front end damage but a new headlight is over £700 alone i think..
mine had to have entire front end painted from a destroyed bumper so cost thousands and the wing badges took the paint off so had to do the doors too..
i imagine that Orange might be hard to match too so the risk of customer rejecting it.
Yes the Orange was very hard to match to the rest of the body! It has 2 stages to it to make the pearl, a ground coat which looks like a mustard yellow then the main coat which changes it to the orange then the lacquer.
02-07-2019, 10:54 AM
Hi All new on here! London, UK
