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Got into a accident about a month ago. And im pretty much ready to fix it up. I got minor frame damage to the front. Can you guys give your opioion on how expensive it would be to fix this. Any opioions are helpful!Heres a couple links to the pics.

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http://www.cardomain.com/member_pages/view_page.pl?page_id=332990

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just call up a frame shop

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if you can fix the front inner sheetmetal with a hammer and dolly aka no welding in new parts and the frame isnt bent i would guess about 1k to fix without paint using new parts. You could get that down to 350 with used parts. I just saw a complete lx front clip fenders lights front bumper and hood for 300 on stangnet.com. also does the car still drive straight or is it tweaked.

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I dont even know if its tweaked. I found somewhere close where I can get the hood, fender, and bumper for 400. So now im worried about the frame. One of my friends told me 500 and up to fix that and I almost puked! So u suggest hammering it out?

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Where did u see that on stangnet, I cant find it. Can u link me

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I can get you a bumper cover with light support and lights, passenger side fender and a hood for $300

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lets do it, serious

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u dont got drivers side fender? and this is for 87-93 right?

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$350 with both fenders. Yes, fox body years. From the pics I didn't think you needed a passenger side fender. Sorry

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no I need drivers side fender, hood, lx bumper, lights and light support

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$300 for all you listed

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I should have the money by monday, is there anyone else looking to buy those things from you? And whats your opioion on the frame damage? Will it cost a ton of money to fix? Would it be farely cheap? Or can I do it myself? Also do you have any pics of the items? Sorry for all the Q's

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yea if the car drives straight still just bang out the sheetmetal to allign with the fenders and your good to go. I did this on my old 90 gt and it was fine.

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Bounty hunter vert u just made me feel a whole lot better about this, someone was telling me that it would cost a whole lot of money to fix. Andbody got any ideas?

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So its safe to say I can knock it back into being straight?

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Did you run over anything?

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as long as the car drives fine just massage the inner fender wells and the radiator support back into shape and you will be good to go.

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as long as the car drives fine just massage the inner fender wells and the radiator support back into shape and you will be good to go.

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Its all stock and slow wanna run.

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it looks like the left frame rail is down, pushed back, and swung to the left.the right rail probably swung to the left with it, check the right door to fender gap, its probably wide. you could change the sheet metal but i doubt that you would be able to line it up properly, and the subframe most likely moved with the frame, so your alignment would be off, and the tires would wear quickly or the car would pull left. you could probably drive the car like this, but i would suggest that you have the frame squared.
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by the way bay area shops charge around $70/hr for frame. you have 1.5 hours to set up and measure your car, 3.0 hours to repair the left rail and about 1.0 hour for the right rail. this is just what i see from your pictures it may not be as bad in person, but there may be more hidden damage so the labor times could go either way.
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DAMN!

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Anyone know a shop in the berkeley, oakland, richmond area where I can get it worked on for cheap? Anyone got any friends?

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sorry to piss on your parade
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Cheap labor rates equal shitty work, you get what you pay for.

And I don't reccomend you driving with a tweaked frame either. Just think if you rear ended someone or your ran head on with a wall. Do you know how easy that frame would fold and give?

Foxes are so cheap now a days I don't see why you just don't get another one.

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wouldnt it be cheaper to fix mines than get another one. Yea I can swap over all my parts, interior, engine, tranny and all but id still have to get a paint job. Thats expensive.

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