jjadey
New member
Hi guys!
I have a weird ET connection with my fiat and I'm not ready to let go, I rear ended someone and ruined the front driver side. After the garage quoted over £3500 to repair it and my insurance rejected it, I bought it back from Copart as a cat N with the intention of fixing it myself and whilst I've learnt a lot trawling through everyone's threads, it isn't enough!!
Few things -
I asked the garage for a breakdown so I could judge it myself and I would love it if someone could please decode the parts required, some I know are obvious but others I'm like
I've got most items in my watchlist on Ebay but im hoping to skip about a few salvage yards in Manchester with a nice list but the fact mine is the sport blue seriously limits the choices I have as im having to buy specific from breaking blue fiat 500s. Through a few bumps and scrapes that I was looking to get repaired a few years ago, I couldn't find a paint bodyshop place with the colour code and FIAT were charging crazy amounts so I never got them repaired but wondering what other peoples experiences have been with this colour?
I have a few concerns about a bent radiator and front panel and it all looks too pushed back and squished together when I lift the bonnet up and all it says on my estimate is "check front panel" so I dont really know what this entails. I dont currently have a clear picture of this, I will upload later.
In my opinion I can't start anything until I judge whether I need to buy a front panel that includes a radiator or if it can just be bent back into shape in which case, Im wondering what the best tool is to do this? EQUALLY, if anyone has had to completely repair the front panel, please share your wisdom!!
I've seen a few videos of bits in stages but I would love it if someone has a more comprehensive idea or guide to repairing the whole front of a fiat!
If you're still here through the mess of this post, I appreciate you, but I will quickly recap what I'm asking -
1. Decode estimate breakdown
2. What do I start with/where do I start?
3. Colour code for the fiat 500s
4. Help
Pics attached of sad Joey Fiat
Thank you all xxx
I have a weird ET connection with my fiat and I'm not ready to let go, I rear ended someone and ruined the front driver side. After the garage quoted over £3500 to repair it and my insurance rejected it, I bought it back from Copart as a cat N with the intention of fixing it myself and whilst I've learnt a lot trawling through everyone's threads, it isn't enough!!
Few things -
I asked the garage for a breakdown so I could judge it myself and I would love it if someone could please decode the parts required, some I know are obvious but others I'm like
I've got most items in my watchlist on Ebay but im hoping to skip about a few salvage yards in Manchester with a nice list but the fact mine is the sport blue seriously limits the choices I have as im having to buy specific from breaking blue fiat 500s. Through a few bumps and scrapes that I was looking to get repaired a few years ago, I couldn't find a paint bodyshop place with the colour code and FIAT were charging crazy amounts so I never got them repaired but wondering what other peoples experiences have been with this colour?
I have a few concerns about a bent radiator and front panel and it all looks too pushed back and squished together when I lift the bonnet up and all it says on my estimate is "check front panel" so I dont really know what this entails. I dont currently have a clear picture of this, I will upload later.
In my opinion I can't start anything until I judge whether I need to buy a front panel that includes a radiator or if it can just be bent back into shape in which case, Im wondering what the best tool is to do this? EQUALLY, if anyone has had to completely repair the front panel, please share your wisdom!!
I've seen a few videos of bits in stages but I would love it if someone has a more comprehensive idea or guide to repairing the whole front of a fiat!
If you're still here through the mess of this post, I appreciate you, but I will quickly recap what I'm asking -
1. Decode estimate breakdown
2. What do I start with/where do I start?
3. Colour code for the fiat 500s
4. Help
Pics attached of sad Joey Fiat
Thank you all xxx
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