[V8] 4.2A6 Pros and Cons

[TooManyAudis at aol.com]

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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