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My 850 is pulling to the right, normal? 850 1997

posted by  chris herbst on  Sun May 25 04:55 CST 2003
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You've seen "hidden" frame damage shopping for used cars? Or do you mean, you've seen "unfinished work"?

You're not being the bearer of bad news, you're being the bearer of an on-the-sly repair job that was intentionally, improperly finished.

Any and every hit in a unit frame car, save for things like bicycle scratches, parking lot dings, and baseball hits, shifts part of the frame, because the frame is the whole vehicle; the whole car is a structural frame member (except for the sheet metal.

Any person with a frame alignment machine, or a good set of frame measurement tools, can correct frame misalignment. The myth of "bent frames" on unit frame cars, is only a result of improper or incomplete repair. The only thing that accident damage has to do with it, is that it happened in the first place, and wasn't repaired. If the car was a '75 Electra, the frame could actually be "bent". If a unit frame car is "bent", then someone who repaired it, is not very bright.


--
Chris Herbst, near Chicago.






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