oops. what happens when a door is bent back waaaay too far!

Thats not so nice.

Pieter "Craig's Saab C900 Site" schreef in bericht news: snipped-for-privacy@lios.apana.org.au...

maybe you might want to consider welding the doors shut and make her enter and exit via window. just like they do on nascar racing. rod

Isn't that what the sun-roof is for?

Kal

Sorry to hear that Craig... But it happens to the best of us. = Yes, it happened to me too ... :(

My 900 still has the dent in the front wing and a skewed door that is noisy above 100 km/h. Believe me, you feel REALLY stupid afterwards...

Richard.

No it's not. But at least I have full insurance on the car, otherwise I'd be paying a lot more than a simple A$500 insurance excess to get the car repaired!

Craig.

No sun-roof on the car. But that idea sort of reminds me of the Dukes of Hazard cars which always seemed to have the doors stuck shut.

Craig.

No sun roof. :-)

Kal

Not sure about the Dukes car and why they always did that, but racers often weld the doors shut for safety in the crude stock car business. the only way in or out is then through the window.

Oops, a lot of damage. Door (naturally), door pillar, front wing, bonnet. It's a question of the wife or the car...

Of course, with the door open you can't see in the door mirror! Did a similar thing with the door slight ajar. There was little space, so my gate caught the black door list (9000) and pushed it forward into the door mount. But luckily, there were no scratches, only the door list was twisted. Got a new list online.

He he sadly I don't think I'm permitted by L.A.W. (tm) to make that call.

Car went to the repair shop that Saab Serve uses here in Sydney on Monday so I should hear from the during next week with news on what's happened. The insurance company is apparently not going to write off the car. Yet.

Craig.

I would be interested in what your insurance company does. to me it looks like the damage is more then what the car would be worth. at least if you were to ask insurance companys in the u.s.a. i can understand you wanting damage repaired. but still i would like to hear how you make out.

rod

I was thinking the same thing - with all the damage to and aaround the bottom of the a-pillar, that's a really major repair job. I haven't heard back from the smash repairer yet but I am betting NRMA will want to the care repaired even if the quoted repair cost is as little as $50 off the write-off value...

Craig.