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Who's going to do that weld and then take liability for the safety of the car after?
by lallysingh 4y ago
Who's going to do that weld and then take liability for the safety of the car after?
- linuxftw 4y agoLots of older cars are rolling around with suspect welds today, often times performed by amateur welders. Everyone understands a repaired car might be be exactly same as new.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoThe people performing their work and their insurer, just like literally every other case where skilled labor is bought. Contrary to internet screeching welding the kind of cast alloys used on cars isn't really a big deal especially the aluminum ones (iron is harder). If the business case materializes I'm it will become common just like aluminum body repair.
- skellington 4y agoBut almost nobody does it and insurance companies just total cars that have this kind of damage. Yes, in theory, it can be repaired but it's too expensive and because it's hard to guarantee the correctness of the repair, insurance companies don't do it and most consumers wouldn't stand for it.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoIt's the labor cost that makes it non-viable in most cases. If it penciled out economically then all the people who are outsourcing their thinking to their insurance company would automatically become fine with it. There is nothing about it harder to guarantee than anything else in the autobody business. How do you know they're applying panel bonding adhesive properly? You don't.