Going to look at a 2011 Honda Accord 2.4L L4, 118K miles , for our daughters 1st car. The front end has been rebuilt after hitting a pole. What are your thoughts. Would send pics of damage and vin In a private message or email for reference.
Personally I would not ever buy a car like that. Front ends get smashed too much damage can go on and there are plenty of non-wrecked cars out there to buy
Pass and don't look back. Cars are unibodies, now, not separate body-on-frame vehicles like my '79 Pontiac. If the crumple zones were triggered, when they pulled it back out, you strengthened the metal, when is the exact opposite of what you want it to do. When you smash into something, you want the car to strategically collapse, and do so predictably, lengthening the collision, and thereby sacrificing the car instead of you. Pulling the vehicle back out makes it stronger, and not able to predictably collapse again. You'd need to anneal the steel to restore the its original properties.
When vehicles were based on body-on-frame designs, the chassis and body were separate from each other. When old cars were wrecked, like my Catalina, they'd get both the body and frame repaired by completely removing the affected parts. Unibodies lost that distinction; the body is the frame. It's cheaper to make and they're more fuel-efficient.
Would send pics of damage and vin In a private message or email for reference.
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Buying a car with a salvage title is a bad idea.
