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I am going to email the estimator about the stickers but I don't know if State Farm will let me have the old parts. I have nowhere to store the hood anyway, as much as I would like to keep it for nostaligia.LilSparkPlug wrote:The shop will be paid to replace those stickers, it will be on the estimate I can guarantee you that. Just make sure they do it. And again, ask for the old parts back
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Glad its getting taken care of. It will be just like new when you get it back. Be nice to have a freshly painted new front bumper and hood.
Don't know why they wrote all that crap on your windows. "No air hose to be used on wheels?" What? Car show in march?
These pictures really show how beefy the stock crash bar is on SRT's. Sad that so many people get rid of it for their giant intercoolers. No aftermarket crash bar can replace the stock one.
Don't know why they wrote all that crap on your windows. "No air hose to be used on wheels?" What? Car show in march?
These pictures really show how beefy the stock crash bar is on SRT's. Sad that so many people get rid of it for their giant intercoolers. No aftermarket crash bar can replace the stock one.
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When I dropped the car off at the body shop last Friday, I mentioned that I have Mopar wheel locks and to use the removal tool for hand torquing if, for some reason, they would need to take the wheels off. I don't know where the estimater got the idea for the car show in March- maybe that is why they started work so quickly (I'm not complaining if this is the case!).MyNeonSaysHi wrote:Don't know why they wrote all that crap on your windows. "No air hose to be used on wheels?" What? Car show in march?
EXACTLY!Tam wrote:The SRT washer fluid bottle adds 30 HP!
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The dealership in Iowa where I purchased the car had drilled a hole in the fascia for the front license plate bracket and I had been planning to have bodywork done there. Also, there were two small chips on the passenger-side lip (directly below the fog light) that also needed to be fixed. Well... DONE!
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yes i can back this up! i still need one of those bottles, no washer bottle + new england weather stinks!LilSparkPlug wrote:SRT washer fluid bottles are shaped differently to allow for the front bumper/foglight combo. The SRT-D has the same washer bottle. If you had a neon and put an SRT-D or SRT fascia on it, you would need to source out that bottle
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Body shop knew nothing about the stickers but have now added them to the estimate. Thank you for suggesting this!LilSparkPlug wrote:The shop will be paid to replace those stickers, it will be on the estimate I can guarantee you that. Just make sure they do it. And again, ask for the old parts back
I am getting custody of the parts. They will show up somewhere, I'm sure.
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Thanks Nate.Passt wrote:Good luck Gramps ^_^ Can't wait to see her at Carlisle.
The problem is who will be billed and how. I talked with four different people about this on Tuesday morning and just wished that I could get them on a conference call rather than call one back and then another.
Car was on jackstands today with all of the skirt pieces removed. I wish that I had known as I would have taken some car wash solution and wax with me- I'll probably never see the rocker panels again once the body shop has finished with the car. Then I got a late email- the hood that Chrysler sent to the body shop arrived with some kind of damage and was rejected so now we have to wait for another one. All of the new parts were supposedly in the paint shop when I was there so I couldn't see them.
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Yeah, i thought that I would use my noggin' and rush over there this morning and do a quick wash and wax of the rockers but was told that the shop's insurance wouldn't cover my being inside like that. Oh well. The worst thing is that, after checking my pics from yesterday more closely, it looks like my exhaust is starting to rust big time. This is the longest time that the car has sat outdoors in bad weather since it was on the dealer lot. I thought that SRT's had stainless exhaust parts- am I wrong on this? Should I be concerned?
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Regardless of a car sitting outside, there is still plenty of moisture in the air.
Surface rusting should be expected, not all stainless steel is completely rust free. I wouldn't worry about it until it starts to put holes through the piping, which will probably be a while.
Surface rusting should be expected, not all stainless steel is completely rust free. I wouldn't worry about it until it starts to put holes through the piping, which will probably be a while.
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ok well i have had my fair share of repair shops and one thing is the your stock crash bar took no damage any and all was deflected into the lower frame that it bolts onto. so thats reusable and is the strongest you can have on there the fog light cover should be reuseabl also because i see no damage if there is you need to find out for sure what the damage was. as far as the hood take with you a hard book and place it up against the stricker on the hood if it is bent you will see it. it should be 90 degrees n every direction. as far as the head light and sticker for the car dealerships can print them out for you and almost all carry headlights in stock. from reading your post and original there is NO WAY you have over 3k in frame damage. that the kind of damage you get from drifting and crap. so before they touch your car any more take all your picture of everything to at LEAST 3 other shops to get a final quote because some thing is really fishy here i know body panel bolt are only so tight for a resaon so that the panels can mose some so that minimal damage happens to the frame. just make sure that your not getting screwed and make sure you get every single last peice back and also make sure they use the right bolts in the right place. alot of shops dont care what goes were
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He said 3700 worth of damage, not frame damage. Considering the bumper is $748 and the hood retails at $1,000, the fog bezels are $80+ an OEM headlight is $200, I think 3700 w/labor is reasonable considering parts alone are over 2,000. Add in the rust proofing, frame pulling/straightening, paint materials, labor, prep, cover etc and you're easily at the figure they gave him.
Nothing they've done seems fishy at all, they're handling it rather well from what I can see.
Nothing they've done seems fishy at all, they're handling it rather well from what I can see.
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As others have stated, all stock SRT exhausts end up looking like this. It is NOT stainless steel as far as I know. The Mopar / Borla performance exhaust however, is. I would highly recommend that. I bought that for my SRT almost as soon as I got my car back in December of 2008. Still no rust. It will fit right onto the stock downpipe.Midnight_Rider wrote:It looks like my exhaust is starting to rust big time. This is the longest time that the car has sat outdoors in bad weather since it was on the dealer lot. I thought that SRT's had stainless exhaust parts- am I wrong on this? Should I be concerned?
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