Ok guys I got into an accident about a month or so ago, I posted the pictures up here at the time it happened.

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Total cost ended up to be over 6 grand.

 

wow dude, that is really freaking nice. great work to the body shop that you went to, looks brand new....wish mine looked that good. are you gonna keep the stock corners or with a DC clear corner. either way it looks good man.

 

6 grand!!? i hope ur insurance paid for that.

as for the grille. looks pretty good.

 

The body shop estimate was: 5490
The insurance estimate was: 5486
As the body shop was working on the car, they found they had to replace the seatbelts and a few other small parts, so that's why the cost totalled over 6 grand.
Yea insurance paid for pretty much everying - a $500 deductable. I still need to get new tires(something got ****ed up with the radials and I need new ones all around), but I have an inside deal and I'm get $105 tires for $31/tire. Also need an alignment, and then this car should be pretty much back to normal *cross your fingers*. Right now, I'm going to keep the car the way it is; I'm broke as a joke and I still need books for next semester. Thanks for the complements guys, and happy holidays, I'm off to visit family.

EDIT: Oh and the body shop forgot to put a clear coat on the fender, so I have to head back there and get them to fix that, but otherwise I think they did a beautiful job.

 

the bosy shop should have done the alignment

 

it looks nice. nothin is better then having new paint.

 

the body shop should have done the alignment

 

Somebody remind...what's the regular 97-99 grill like? You just had them paint the black parts body color right?

 

noice!

i'd wet myself if my car looked that good!

 

It looks very nice. Good job.

 

yea, the middle is black, the more i look at mine, i like mine better, but still looks good

 

Paint looks nice and glossy, but get them to realign the left headlight again.

 

Nice body work. IMHO, I think that having just the H part of the grill painted looks better. I just recently replaced the messed up grill on my 95 with a modded 97+ grill and I only painted the H part and it looks pretty sweet. I painted the word NISSAN on the emblem the same color as the car. See pic below (the lower valance will be a future mod: middle bar removed + mesh + lip).

 

love the grill

 

dam i need a paint job badly

 

Nice work on the body shops part. I just got mine back from a shop too, not as much damage as yours but pretty bad, roughly 3 grand. Body shops are scary good at putting things back to the way they were or better huh?

 

The only reason they didn't do a wheel alignment is becuase I need new tires, and what is the point of doing a wheel alignment when they will already be doing it when I get the new tires popped on?

Yea when I take the car to get the clear coat on the fender that they forgot, I'm going to make em realign that headlamp also.

 

If only you would get rid of them Orange lenses...it would be beautiful.

 

Same conclusion I came to

 

Hahaha you wanna buy em for my broke college ***? Didn't think so. lol

 

6k for that damage? Someone made a killing somewhere...

 

The grill has the words accident writen all over it to me, but not many people look at things like that besides me.

And like stated above the left tail light looks uneven and the body shop should have done the alighment.

but the paint works looks good.

 

Dude no way in hell is that 6k in damages, I'm getting my whole car repainted and body kit removed and installed for around 3k!!! A new bumper is like 80 bucks, new fender like 60 bucks, new light like 70 bucks, and new corners like 40 bucks, to remove and install the fender and bumper shouldn't have costed more than $600-$700 and that's from a really really good body shop! Dude you should've collected that money and have someone else do it. You got raped!!!!!!!

 

$6K and they forgot the clear???

 

Amen to that.

 

exactly what my dad did. Accident-smashed driver window, cruched door insurance aliam $1400. new door 200 bucks paint 200 window 125 bucks, you do the math mad money in our pockets.

 

looks nice

 

$6k = Another Max

 

Proline Auto Body & Chassis
Elmood Park, NJ

It's where NJMaxseltd works it's his brothers shop they're a really good, and reputable shop.

 

That paint looks so fresh and so clean

 

Nice grill, I wanted to do something like that with my chrome one.

 

They did a pretty good job, but that looks like a $1k - 2k damage to me.

 

your insurance got raped, my moms 2002 hyundai sonota looked same after her accident. they replaced her bumper, grill, one projector headlamp (im pretty sure projector headlamp are at least twice as much as your standard one). And passanger fender for $1600. The insurance also got money from the insurance company of the person who hit her to cover the deductable.

It's obvious that the grill is not stock but it does look nice. It makes me wanna get my front end painted. I wish I got an accident. The sparkles (paint chips) that the previous owner put on my front end look like crap after seeing your pics. I aquired my maxima for 6500.

 

hah cheating insurance- got t-boned by "some guy" in a parking lot, but at least he was nice enough to leave his info(gotta love the christmas spirit), only damage was front drivers door, got a door from my friends junked 95, replaced all interior crap on it myself, and came out with 1000 from insurance. time to buy that tv i always wanted

 

i belive 6k mine was about that too , but when it came out i almost pooped my pants becuase it was so nice looking

 

You guys don't realize how expensive body work is. Plus he prob had frame damage also, and that's not easy to bring back to original shape. All these body shop places will ripp you off when they know insurance is paying, but then again they'll just ripp you off period.

 

I highly doubt there was frame damage. All the expensive costs come from the paint and labor. Not to mention, theres sometimes a bunch of misc parts that add up quickly that are hidden from what you see.