If some of you remember I had an accident, one lady totaled my Max while I was driving home from college. I had some pics posted and the thread is here. http://forums.maxima.org/members-rid...nt-update.html Insurance estimated the repairs for over $7500, they paid me $7900.
Well I bought the car back from the insurance for $1300 and repaired it. Sence I work at the bodyshop I had all the tools neccessary for the job and later painted Max at work. With God's help the whole repair cost me $1080. I think it's pretty amazing.

Well here is the Max, got it fixed up for about 2 month now. Just haven't been on here to update you guys.


bought another quarter panel from junk yard and cut up everything I needed.

also had to replace the rear axle, the damaged one had a pretty big arc in it.

 

Sence the rear mille miglia Evo 5 was pretty jacked up. It was bent up pretty bad, I had to order a new Sport Edition wheels from Tire Rack. Pretty much a replica of the Evo5. I have to say they look very identical, but still different in some ways.




Here is the completed project...

 

Wow that is awesome man, great work so far.

 

sweeeeeet. im so glad this car will be back in action. one of my favorite clean 5th gens!

 

glad u got it back together def looks killer.

 

wow nice work, the paint matches very well.

 

thats awesome. good job on the body work

 

doesn't look like there were any frame damage just sheet metal. Nice work lining everything up.

 

WOW!! Great work man...im impressed. Does it have a salvaged title now?

 

Wow, that cost you a little over 1k? Amazing.

 

damn, thats cool. i wish i knew how to do body work, i would of fixed some previous cars that i lost due to accidents...

 

Your max was one of my fav's, glad to see it back in pristine condition!

 

great job, glad to see it back to normal sash.

 

Great job with the work.

 

that is def awesome! looks really good bro nice work!

 

looks amazing...props for all the hard work

 

Like nothing ever happened, great job. Offer up your services to fellow org members, we all need help sometimes and you can probably make some cash

 

thanks guys...

well the car had a Salvage title before, this is the second time the car is totaled lol ...when I first time bought the car from the yard, it already was totaled. This is second time, but now while I had the car.

 

I gotta admit, u got some skillz there. Nice work mang.!! Lookks good too.!

 

Awesome Work

 

now the big question is...what are you going to do with all the left over cash?? perhaps an early christmas??

 

wow... thats an amazing repair job!!

 

Excellent job man.

 

Very clean man congrats on the rebuild looks awsome

 

Wow that came out excellent, props to you for holding in there and fixing it the right way.

And after my accident this summer I bought one of those Sport Edition KV5 (Evo5 replicas) and I was impressed with the quality, but the shop was able to repair my MM instead. The only thing I didn't like was the plastic nuts near each spoke, opposed to the aluminum ones on the MM's.

Nonetheless, great job!

 

can i bring you my car? thats some great work.

 

wow. impressive. Glad you were able to fix it right and got it back on the road.

 

damn thats awesome!!

 

nice work! does it drive the same? lol

 

That's what i was about to ask also, but i love it man,great work

 

I would like to know the same!

I'm not normally a fan of your color, but it looks good, especially with those wheels. Great job on the work though.

 

very nice, i especially like that you took the time to r&i everything instead of just taping it up. good job!

 

Knowing bodywork = profit!

Nice work!

S

 

because of such great work, you sir have my vote for MOTM!!!

 

Nice job

 

Wow, that looks great. Definitely one of my fav 5.5 gens on the forum. Awesome pics to show the progress. Question for you, how much of the car did you paint afterwards?

 

awesome man, glad to see the EV0 back in action.

 

that must have been a lot of work... great job!

 

Nice fix up... wish I have the skills.

 

thanks for the comments everyone. realy appreciate it.

gotta be proffecional, when you work at the bodyshop being a bodyman you must get things done right, otherwise you won't get too far. I pretty much new in this business, been in bodyshop business for 2 years now. I went to school here to get the degree for this. Im realy into this stuff and just love doing it.

Well yes it drives just as good as before, not a problem.

thanks bro.

Well I wish I took more pics of what I did. My rear bumper was involved in the accident so that needed to be repaired as well.
The whole paint process is: Rear bumper, quarter, rear door, blending front door, and also blending the whole roof. When I say blending if some don't exactly know what I mean, it's when you blend the new painted color to the old one so you don't see the color difference. Ex: I painted/blended my front door to half so two colors could combine and no color difference could be seen.