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Is it repairable? (genuine question)

by ape4 4y ago

gadflyinyoureye 4y ago
Seems to result the car being totaled. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/t-boned-totaled-or-will-insurance-make-us-repair.172320/ https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/t-boned-totaled-or-w...
- sliken 4y ago
  The equation is a bit different for Teslas. The battery or even a fraction of a battery has substantial value on the used market. There's even a section on ebay just for Tesla batteries.
- dawnerd 4y ago
  I was tboned in my brand new s (there’s a thread on it on tmc)and they finally declared it a loss after three months. Looking at it didn’t seem like that much damage but yeah once the frame is even slightly skewed it’s done.
pixl97 4y ago
In general most modern cars are totaled when the unibody construction gets bent. The car gets written off by insurance and sold at an auction for low price. The repair people typically buy 2 cars and weld them together if possible. Otherwise the unit is parted out. No real idea on how this would work on a Tesla though.
- londons_explore 4y ago
  > . The repair people typically buy 2 cars and weld them together if possible. The repair people also commonly just straighten out the bent part and resell (sometimes shipping overseas first to a place where less attention is paid to bent crumple zones)
  - creaturemachine 4y ago
    And outside the purview of consumer protection services such as Carfax.
  - throwayyy479087 4y ago
    There's an enormous trade in totaled cars to Nigeria from the USA
jcampbell1 4y ago
It is pretty similar. A bunch of stamped, then bent pieces of sheet metal all welded together isn’t more or less reparable. We are talking about frame components here, and so repairs require using hydraulics to bend the components back to straight’ish and then weld gussets to hold it in place. Regardless of the manufacturing technique, most insurance companies will total the car if these components get bent.
KaiserPro 4y ago
so if you fuck the subframe (the single casting that hosts the motor and rear wheels with suspension) and you somehow manage to not break anything else, then its replaceable by unbolting it: https://youtu.be/uoJWjhqjq2k?t=365 https://youtu.be/uoJWjhqjq2k?t=365 this is from a JAAAAAAG. but its the same idea.
hummus_bae 4y ago
Repairable by you or me? No.

Is it repairable? (genuine question)

by ape4 4y ago

Is it repairable? (genuine question)

Seems to result the car being totaled. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/t-boned-totaled-or-will-insurance-make-us-repair.172320/ https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/t-boned-totaled-or-w...

sliken 4y ago
The equation is a bit different for Teslas. The battery or even a fraction of a battery has substantial value on the used market. There's even a section on ebay just for Tesla batteries.
dawnerd 4y ago
I was tboned in my brand new s (there’s a thread on it on tmc)and they finally declared it a loss after three months. Looking at it didn’t seem like that much damage but yeah once the frame is even slightly skewed it’s done.

pixl97 4y ago

In general most modern cars are totaled when the unibody construction gets bent. The car gets written off by insurance and sold at an auction for low price. The repair people typically buy 2 cars and weld them together if possible. Otherwise the unit is parted out. No real idea on how this would work on a Tesla though.

londons_explore 4y ago
> . The repair people typically buy 2 cars and weld them together if possible. The repair people also commonly just straighten out the bent part and resell (sometimes shipping overseas first to a place where less attention is paid to bent crumple zones)
- creaturemachine 4y ago
  And outside the purview of consumer protection services such as Carfax.
- throwayyy479087 4y ago
  There's an enormous trade in totaled cars to Nigeria from the USA

jcampbell1 4y ago

It is pretty similar. A bunch of stamped, then bent pieces of sheet metal all welded together isn’t more or less reparable. We are talking about frame components here, and so repairs require using hydraulics to bend the components back to straight’ish and then weld gussets to hold it in place. Regardless of the manufacturing technique, most insurance companies will total the car if these components get bent.

KaiserPro 4y ago

so if you fuck the subframe (the single casting that hosts the motor and rear wheels with suspension) and you somehow manage to not break anything else, then its replaceable by unbolting it: https://youtu.be/uoJWjhqjq2k?t=365 https://youtu.be/uoJWjhqjq2k?t=365 this is from a JAAAAAAG. but its the same idea.

hummus_bae 4y ago

Repairable by you or me? No.