A woman decides to back out of the parking lot and rammed her tow bar in the side of my car.
How can you NOT see a large Grand Voyager high roof behind you?
Now I am curious what the insurance company will do/pay...
I suspect an economic total loss since the repairs will probably be more that the actual value of the car.
In that case I let them pay as much as I can, keep the car and repair with a new door from the scrapyard..

My car value will be around €2.000,- to €3.000,- I guess but repairs will be a lot more I think,
What do you guys think repairs would cost?

 

A decent tin-basher would get most of that out, and cheaply too if you took the door off yourself and handed it to him. Do the filling yourself which should be minimal, then take the door to a spray-shop. You should get away with around half a grand I reckon all in all. What's more, I'd have a go at spraying it too, even though it's metallic. You have a perfect divider in the rubbing strake. Use best thinners with metallics BTW, not the cheap stuff.
You might get a few good nights out on the whole deal....

Leedsman.

 

Doesn't look too bad [what damage behind the open door] to me, find a second hand same coloured door replacement for £30-£50, a stud welder will make short work of the 8 inches of wheel arch and its far enough away from the fuel tank. Can't find a door ? ditto the stud welder, puller[s], catty & paint. I agree with Leedsman it should come in a lot less than the £1k -.

 

I'll wait for what the insurance bloodsuckers are going to offer me but I also think I can repair this pretty cheap and it wasn't a showroom car to begin with ..

Btw Surprisingly the door still opens and closes smoothly

 

The Insurance company damage expert looked at my car today and told me (as expected) that the car was economically total loss. (as in: repair cost higher than the value of the car)
And he offered me €1.500,- and to keep the car.
Well.. I can live with that! I'll find me a replacement door at the scrapyard and spray paint the remaining damage

 

good result!

Regards
Richard

 

If you find the same colour you will be €1.400 to the good, and keep your car, nice one my friend.

 

Hahaaa! Bought a scrapyard slide door in exactly the right colour in very good condition for only €75,-
Now I only have to find out how to get the old door out and replace the door and how to move the "blind window" from my current door to the new door...
I'll check the interweb, but also any tips and tricks anyone?

 

Holy cow... It is quite a job replacing a sliding door and building all parts from the old to the new door.
The biggest challenge was removing the blind window plate and place it on the new door....
My GV is a cargo fan and my left sliding door has no window but is closed with a steel plate which is glued to the door on the place where the window would be.
The guys who build this door where not shy with rubber sealing kit a double row of hardened rubber kit which proved almost impossible to cut...I ruined a perfect kitchen knife on that rubber. I heated the knife, stabbed the rubber and hit the knife with a heavy hammer to get trough the black kit.
In the process the door fell over twice scratching the paint on the plate
But I prevailed and glued the plate on the new door and the door on the Voyager.

Tomorrow, when the glue kit has hardened I will see if I can adjust the door so it closes and opens perfectly..
Anyone has any tips on how to adjust the door and locks?

 

Sooo... car looks much better now!
Now I need to spraycan the remaining damage and clean the car to match the new door