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Well, as of yesterday morning my beloved Dayz RS4-S has had it's front end redocorated when my wife decided that she would give a Holden Captiva's arse a love tap. The damn thing had a tow ball which softened the blow to his car but made an absolute mess of mine. Now before anyone critisizes me for not being insured, I called only thursday night and got a quote and before I could talk it over with my wife on Friday morning she had gone out to do some shopping. So unfortunately, no insurance. Got to get some quotes next week to see if the metal work can be fixed/ replaced and if the price is worth doing. The front of the right chassis rail copped the most of the towball so I need to find out if it can be fixed in any way or replaced. After looking at FAST, I can get the parts for the front part, to the firewall but not sure if cost and work needed will be worth it.

As much as I love this car I think it may be time to either sell it as a whole or to part it out and recoup some money to buy a car. Well either way, will get to that bit later. Now for some photo's.

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Bad luck mate. I feel for you being currently uninsured myself. Your options include:

1. Wrecking for parts - you'll get the first few grand quite quickly but could take a long time to get the rest.

2. Rebuilding with all new parts - quite pricey possibly uneconomic

3. Rebuilding with as many second hand parts as you can source

4. R34 front kit - ask some of the guys who have done it what the minimum spend would be.

If you go for rebuilding and assuming that you are not a panelbeater its a good idea to go to quite a few panel beaters, stressing that it is not an insurance job and that you are paying for it yourself and try to get some idea of what you're up for. I'm pretty sure repairing will only be worthwhile if you plan to keep the car - if not you may as well wreck it for parts.

sorry to hear about your car, that really sucks!!!

The following site looks to have a far bit of parts that you will need to fix the damage should you decide to go down that path

http://www.japaneseimportspares.com.au/nissanstageaw34m35/

good luck with it all

Bugger

I had a spare full front end for cheap. would have been perfect, included the rad support cut.

End up giving that away for free.Hit up Hugh (66yo????)

Only have front guards left if you need them

R34 front = $4-5K in parts

Sorry for your loss

sorry to hear about your car, that really sucks!!!

The following site looks to have a far bit of parts that you will need to fix the damage should you decide to go down that path

http://www.japaneseimportspares.com.au/nissanstageaw34m35/

good luck with it all

That site is great. Has most parts that I need. Including a yellow bonnet and a Dayz bar. Will certainly be giving them a call on Monday. Now the main part is seeing if it is going to be worth paying for the chassis rail to be fixed/ replaced. Thanks greatly. Now the waiting game begins.

Thanks all for your replies. Will be hoping to get this fixed cause we love the car but, due to both my wife and I working and having 2 kids we really need a car so first thing will be to get a cheap family car and then onto this. Even if it sits there for 6 months while I collect the parts, I would rather take the time to fix it then to see it parted out.

I made the same mistake of not having insurance on my first stagea.

Was waiting till I turned 25 before I got full comp, then a bogan wiped me off the road writing it off, 1 month before my 25th bday.

made sure I had full comp after that.

And I'm still chasing the guy who hit for money nearly 2 yrs on.

No airbag deployment thank god.. Because she had only just started to accelerate it didnt set them off. We have the money sitting here waiting for him to call with the cost to pay for his car but just a matter of time as to when he gets in touch with us. Will find out this week as to some prices and if the main metal work can be done and will go from there.

Well, looks like I may be scrapping the Stagea. Had a smash repairer look at it and it is going to cost minimum of $900 parts and labour just to possibly get the metal work done. If they then get to a certain part and can't get the rest straight it then rushes into the thousands to cut the chassis rail around the firewall and weld all new bits in. Looking at keeping the gearbox and motor/loom etc and going the dreaded VL conversion. Damn insurance.. I knew I shouldn't have told them I had to speak to the missus fist to clear things with her. Next time I will just go ahead and do it. So.... Anyone got any good links to RB motor into VL?

looking through the pics its almost identical to my car! (yellow rs4s with days front)

sucks about the accident but you could prob make a bit of money back by parting it out

the rs4s gear is all pretty desirable, gearbox, motor, manual console, handbrake bracket, clutch pedal and all the seats and interior are better than the stockers

also, if you want to sell the drivers side door i'll definitely buy it so i don't have to paint mine :(

good luck with it tho mate, hopefully its repairable

spend the money and fix it, you will spend more on the VL +conversion and have a far far worse car with little to no resale value and a whole host of reigstration and insurance problems.

best case scenario, it costs $900 bucks to fix the stagea - so be it, that is the cost of minimum excess payment with just cars (for example) anyway - even if you DID have insurance you'd be up for that.

worst case, its a few thousand. at least you have no insurance claim, not on the WOVR, and a great car that you know back on the road.

OR

you buy a VL, even a fairly crappy one will be 1500-2k. conversion you're looking at a nistune or darkhalf board to run it, going to have to get a different sump and gearbox as your AWD stuff won't fit. rewiring ecu. tail shaft modification. brake upgrade, and bigger wheels and tyres for to clear them, for insurance and rego. custom exhaust to plumb it all up, and that's not even starting on suspension improvements to stop it handling like a boat. thats already 5-6k right there, and at the end of the day you'll have a crappy VL.

seriously, its a no brainer. start scavenging for parts and fix that sucker.

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