• MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Article does not have the numbers, and I filled in DDGing the Numbers. How many cars have their frames repaired each year?

    My anecdotal experience indicates very few car frames are repaired each year, though not zero.

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      1 year ago

      The expense of repairing frame damage is already really high and, in my personal experience with a couple cars that had frame damage from being hit, the insurance counts it as a total loss every time. I don’t suspect the average car owner is going to repair that kind of damage when it would be cheaper to just replace the entire vehicle. An enthusiast or someone with a sentimental bond with it, and has the money for it, might choose to repair it tho.