How much is it to correct a bent frame?

Your best bet is to take it into a good body shop. Have them put it up on "the rack" and give it a look. Depending on the year of your car (older with a frame, newer unibody) and the ammount of damage the repairs will more likely than not be rather expensive. It may cost you as much as $125 to get them to put it on the rack just to look at it. The reason for this is that the setup time is significant and it takes a trained technician to know what he's doing. Modern frame racks work with lasers and mirrors. All of the information is fed into a computer that measures the severity of the damage.

The good news on all of this is that with today's equipment you will end up with a properly repaired vehicle rather than in the old days (as recent as

15 years ago) where the car was tied to the floor and pulled with a come along and whacked with a hammer till it measured as close as it could get with a measuring tape.

If you have an insurance company covering the damage, It shouldn't cost anything for an estimate, and you can ask the shop to show you on the estimate which parts are strictly frame work. There will surely be parts involved as well.

Good luck to you !

Kate

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Let's see... $12 for a good tape measure and $45 for a big sledgehammer... that should do it.

I never knew what was involved with frame repairs... that's pretty cool Kate.

-Mike

On 12 Feb 2004 08:25:50 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (TheBigItaly50) wrote something wonderfully witty:

It isn't so much the cost of the fix, but the end result. Even when done at extremely high standards the end result is usually less then desirable.

Since prices vary by level of damage, region, and end result it is almost impossible to give an exact figure. I have been told I am not allowed to use a broadsword to disprove ?The Pen is Mightier than the sword?.

Good advice. My LX got banged up pretty bad a while ago, and the shop welded a whole new front section on just ahead of the firewall including the front suspension and a clip. To do that and straighten out everything was over a couple grand, which insurance picked up. End result was fantastic though. Drove like it was new.

Joe Black '03 Dakota 5.9 R/T CC Calypso Green '93 Mustang 5.0 LX hatch with a few goodies

"SVTKate" wrote in news:vUKWb.1129$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net: