For the full story, you can see my thread in talk: Someone drove my car over night and wrecked it
Basically, my nephew drove my car w/o permission and wrecked it. I have various external pics in the thread in talk.
I pulled the radiator, fan, shroud, unbolted some of the bottom bumper cover bolts and moved the a/c condensor to the side. I need to get the car where I can drive it to get estimates of how much it would cost to fix it. Right now as it sits, if the radiator is in, the hood won't shut, the shroud pushes into the crank pulley and the fan hits the radiator. I need to pull that piece of metal that the radiator sits on back a little more into place.
I was thinking either one of two things.
1) Use a chain and either my Jeep or my bro's Dodge Ram to pull the bracket forward a little bit.
2) Use some type of winch or pulley system that ties to a tree or whatever and you click the thing and slowly ratchet it in.
It's a position where hammering and prying are not really possible as far as I've tried.
I'm thinking I'll try to locate some used parts that will fit (probably a whole new front clip) and try to do it myself and save the extra money and keep the car.
I was also thinking about fixing it to make it driveable and look decent and sell it...of course telling the person what happened. The underbody is rusted pretty badly, so throwing a lot of money into this car isn't the best move. I called some auto body shops and tried to get them to come and give me an estimate at my house, but they don't do that. They said from the sound of it, it's probably totaled. The cop told me probably not. The thing is that the inner fender (fenderwell) on the drivers side is kinda crunched, so I'm not real sure what I'm gonna do about that.
Pics:
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
Basically, my nephew drove my car w/o permission and wrecked it. I have various external pics in the thread in talk.
I pulled the radiator, fan, shroud, unbolted some of the bottom bumper cover bolts and moved the a/c condensor to the side. I need to get the car where I can drive it to get estimates of how much it would cost to fix it. Right now as it sits, if the radiator is in, the hood won't shut, the shroud pushes into the crank pulley and the fan hits the radiator. I need to pull that piece of metal that the radiator sits on back a little more into place.
I was thinking either one of two things.
1) Use a chain and either my Jeep or my bro's Dodge Ram to pull the bracket forward a little bit.
2) Use some type of winch or pulley system that ties to a tree or whatever and you click the thing and slowly ratchet it in.
It's a position where hammering and prying are not really possible as far as I've tried.
I'm thinking I'll try to locate some used parts that will fit (probably a whole new front clip) and try to do it myself and save the extra money and keep the car.
I was also thinking about fixing it to make it driveable and look decent and sell it...of course telling the person what happened. The underbody is rusted pretty badly, so throwing a lot of money into this car isn't the best move. I called some auto body shops and tried to get them to come and give me an estimate at my house, but they don't do that. They said from the sound of it, it's probably totaled. The cop told me probably not. The thing is that the inner fender (fenderwell) on the drivers side is kinda crunched, so I'm not real sure what I'm gonna do about that.
Pics:
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks