AS197C
Junior Member
Hey,
I’m in need of some serious help, I bought a Mustang Gt 2010 Premium, 4.6L 5 speed auto, had it for 3 days and had a serious front end collision with a concrete barrier, it was a hit and run and insurance won’t cover it, sucks like hell because I spent a shit ton of time looking for the exact model here in Alberta, anyway payed 10.5K, 160k km on it, only issue was the ABS, traction and traction off light were on, dude whom I bought from told me it needed a new ABS module.
The front end collision made the car sustain frame damage, airbags went off on the passenger side panel and the driver side horn airbag. Went to a body shop and they quoted me 17K for the full repair, new bumper, frame repair, painting, new airbags, the works.
I love this car, don’t want to lose it and have to part it out, looking to maybe DIY the airbags, the bumper, headlights ect but need some help, any recommendations or guides? I plan to get the frame professionally fixed.
Honestly if I can get it running in good condition for under 9k Canadian, I’ll do it.
Engine may have some issues though that haven’t been diagnosed, after the crash the radiator took some damage with the rad support, the coolant reservoir got shifted and slammed into the intake tube, turned on the engine and it idled good (this is me speaking after the accident happened) reved it twice, white smoke came out but coulda been the heavy Calgary rain in the exuast, 3rd rev caused idling to go up and down and give me a service wrench light, before this I already had a check engine light. The car made some weird quick banging/cranking noise in the exuast. After this used and OBD reader and got 2 codes. P2111 and P2104, basically the throttle body was having issues, took off the cold air intake and found a peice of plastic from inside the broken intake tube (the intake tube didn’t have any holes, just the inner lining of plastic cracked from the reservoir hitting it). Took out the peice of plastic, now I’m worried there’s more plastic inside the engine making that noise.
Anyway I’ll have pictures of it made posted underneath along with the 17k quote from the body shop including the costs and parts, I’m guessing their sourcing majority OEM (I got a quote for 8.9k for just the airbags and the frame but im thinking some shops will do just the frame for 3-4), I’ll also have a before picture in case anyone wants to know why full coverage on insurance is a really good idea for a mustang. (I would upload the video of the exuast noise but seems like I can’t here, can email it in case anyone’s interested, other wise the engine didn’t sustain any damage)
If I could get any help on where to go from here I’d appreciate it.
I’m in need of some serious help, I bought a Mustang Gt 2010 Premium, 4.6L 5 speed auto, had it for 3 days and had a serious front end collision with a concrete barrier, it was a hit and run and insurance won’t cover it, sucks like hell because I spent a shit ton of time looking for the exact model here in Alberta, anyway payed 10.5K, 160k km on it, only issue was the ABS, traction and traction off light were on, dude whom I bought from told me it needed a new ABS module.
The front end collision made the car sustain frame damage, airbags went off on the passenger side panel and the driver side horn airbag. Went to a body shop and they quoted me 17K for the full repair, new bumper, frame repair, painting, new airbags, the works.
I love this car, don’t want to lose it and have to part it out, looking to maybe DIY the airbags, the bumper, headlights ect but need some help, any recommendations or guides? I plan to get the frame professionally fixed.
Honestly if I can get it running in good condition for under 9k Canadian, I’ll do it.
Engine may have some issues though that haven’t been diagnosed, after the crash the radiator took some damage with the rad support, the coolant reservoir got shifted and slammed into the intake tube, turned on the engine and it idled good (this is me speaking after the accident happened) reved it twice, white smoke came out but coulda been the heavy Calgary rain in the exuast, 3rd rev caused idling to go up and down and give me a service wrench light, before this I already had a check engine light. The car made some weird quick banging/cranking noise in the exuast. After this used and OBD reader and got 2 codes. P2111 and P2104, basically the throttle body was having issues, took off the cold air intake and found a peice of plastic from inside the broken intake tube (the intake tube didn’t have any holes, just the inner lining of plastic cracked from the reservoir hitting it). Took out the peice of plastic, now I’m worried there’s more plastic inside the engine making that noise.
Anyway I’ll have pictures of it made posted underneath along with the 17k quote from the body shop including the costs and parts, I’m guessing their sourcing majority OEM (I got a quote for 8.9k for just the airbags and the frame but im thinking some shops will do just the frame for 3-4), I’ll also have a before picture in case anyone wants to know why full coverage on insurance is a really good idea for a mustang. (I would upload the video of the exuast noise but seems like I can’t here, can email it in case anyone’s interested, other wise the engine didn’t sustain any damage)
If I could get any help on where to go from here I’d appreciate it.
