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Old 11-19-2013, 02:45 PM
BillGrissom BillGrissom is offline
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If it was hit forward of the front tire, it should be repairable, in my experience. My wife's 96 Voyager was hit there and shoved over ~4" and I am driving it today 100,000 miles later. I can take my hands off the wheel on the highway and it goes perfectly straight, and I did all wheel alignments myself. I expect your lower frame and suspension is all in the correct place and just the radiator support and fenders were shoved over. The main thing mechanically is to get the UCA mounting position back where it should be.

I just bought a HF 10-ton porta-power clone and braced the vehicle in my concrete garage and pressed the front-end back over. The tricky part is that you must over-press since it springs back. I finally got the top strut mount in the correct place. That is a FWD, with more issues (tranny case also broken at top). A new fender was $70 plus paint. I would have let a shop handle it, but GEICO scr**ed us. Both drivers had GEICO and they said, "both equally at fault, so under GA law we don't have to pay anybody". Really, at a stop light w/ cars at 90 degrees? I sued, but our wimpy lawyer wouldn't take to trial and settled for $2500.
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