[V8] 4.2A6 Pros and Cons
TooManyAudis at aol.com
TooManyAudis at aol.com
Wed Jan 7 07:50:58 PST 2009
In a message dated 1/7/2009 9:43:57 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
t44tqtro at gmail.com writes:
Can you repair an aluminum unibody car by yourself? If it's all bolted
together and there's no frame damage, I can see that as a possibility. If it's
bonded, no way. Also, you can't really do work to damaged panels- you have to
replace the panel, that's why they get so expensive to fix.
Taka
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:39 PM, <_TooManyAudis at aol.com_
(mailto:TooManyAudis at aol.com) > wrote:
Buy a working car and a parts car.
Well, now, that makes things more interesting. Under my scenario, it would
be easily swapped items, such as hood, fender, doors, bumpers, trunk lid,
etc. If the fenders are bonded on, well, that's a different story. As for any
frame damage, that's where the financial model goes to hell and this ultra
luxury car becomes a disposable example of 'forward thinking' engineering.
Exactly how much weight was saved by using the all-aluminum body? And, that
translates to how many miles per gallon? Doesn't seem like a very good
tradeoff when you look at the numbers...
-- Tom
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