Alex Wardle
http://tomscustomautobody.com
604-931-3441
1830 Kingsway, Port Coquitlam, BC
service@tomscustomautobody.com
Mark: Hi, it’s Mark from Top Local, we’re here with Alex Wardle of Tom’s Custom Autobody in Coquitlam, BC. How’re you doing?
Alex: Fantastic, how’re you doing this morning Mark?
Mark: Good, so we’re going to talk about a 2015 Subaru Impreza WRX, it’s a pretty fancy vehicle, what happened?
Alex: It’s a very fancy vehicle. So I’ll just pull up a couple photos here and what we’ve got is, we’ve got a customer of our’s car that was coming through an intersection and she was hit on the passenger side front, as you can see here. The hood is completely destroyed, headlight is gone on both sides, but more so on the right side, fender is destroyed, the bumper is mangled. This car was towed from the accident scene to our store as we’re a preferred provider with our insurance company, and so it was towed in and we’re now disassembling and getting ready to repair this vehicle. So in this next shot here, you can see that it wasn’t that bad of an accident, she just came out into the intersection and basically somebody was late running a light or the stop sign and essentially just clipped the front end. There is a couple of major things upon teardown we kind of found so major damage which I’ll sow you here next. So basically where I put the circles here, these are the frame rails of the car, so this is the main structural component to your vehicle and these frame rails, especially the one here in the right of the photo, so the drivers side, is swayed over quite a bit. So our job is to put this vehicle on the frame machine and square up the rails, measure it such that the car is back within industry specs and within the specs that Subaru would specify on this car, and then pull the car back into square and then obviously, there are certain items here like the rad support and all the mechanical on the front that we’re going to be replacing over the next couple weeks to bring this car back to pre-loss condition.
Mark: So since this is a pretty high performance car, does Subaru specify a little bit tighter tolerances for some of this stuff?
Alex: For sure, yeah their tolerance on the frame specs are very, very small so we have to pull it within millimetres of what the original specs are. So our store managers would basically download the Subaru data on the frame and they’ll have all the cross measurements and so forth of where each point is got to be relative to the other points and so we will pull within those specs, they basically, and bring that frame back over and then obviously when we’re putting things back together then that allows all the OEM Subaru parts to fit right back in nicely. That ensures all your gaps are back to normal and such as the finished product looks like it did before it drove out of the showroom. This car here’s only got 5,000 km’s on it, so it’s brand new and obviously our customer is not obviously happy...
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