::Barloworld ::All in a day’s work for the car coachworks
No doubt, most people have seen a car drive past with a colour mismatched fender panel or door. Colour matching is just one of the jobs of a car coachworks business that can – and do – go wrong. It is worth remembering the name of a coachworks that do expert colour matching, because they are hard to find.
Of course, the coat of paint is often the very last step before the car goes back to the client, but a car coachworks’ job is far more involved than that. When a car is deemed irreparable by the insurance company, in consultation with their coachworks, the wreck does not become useless. No new body panels can often be found for old cars and wrecks that still have the required panels intact become donor cars.
Wrecks can also be rebuilt into a new car, often with parts from various crashed cars. These kinds of cars are usually called Code 3 cars and are legal for resale as long as the prospective buyer is aware of the state of affairs and resigns himself to the fact that he probably would be able to have the car insured. It is also almost impossible to sell on a Code 3 car, as people are so wary of them. These are only for the extremely knowledgeable and not for the faint hearted.
Coachworks usually have specials rigs in which they “pull” a car straight. Sometimes a car has not been in a big accident, but the impact was at a corner of the body and it meant that the chassis have become slightly distorted. This can be corrected with the correct machinery, but it can cause problems later on if it is not expertly performed. A car that has repeated problems with tracking straight, wheel alignment, uneven tyre wear and varying panel gaps is usually a car that has been thus distorted and not satisfactorily repaired.
It thus is understood that cars with varying panel gaps all over usually have an accident history, or there was an inept car coachworks that had not performed the repair work properly.
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