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Only recently i had my R33 s2 gt-st stolen from out front of my house. It was found two days later and two suburbs over.

I have it back now and it is currently being repaired on insurance. What are some of the things i should look for damage wise? I have taken a look at wheels, tyres etc. How do i check to see if they have f**ked the engine and/or turbo? Looks clean from the outside, but the ignition unit is missing and now it wont start.

Front bar is damaged, they hit a pole and buggered up the drivers side. Bonnet was damaged.

I am impressed with my vehicle though, it managed to outrun a highway patrol. Cheering about that, the highway patrol car blew up trying to keep up!

But not happy about my car and plates being known to every copper this side of sydney, gonna get pulled over even more now!

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Only recently i had my R33 s2 gt-st stolen from out front of my house. It was found two days later and two suburbs over.

I have it back now and it is currently being repaired on insurance. What are some of the things i should look for damage wise? I have taken a look at wheels, tyres etc. How do i check to see if they have f**ked the engine and/or turbo? Looks clean from the outside, but the ignition unit is missing and now it wont start.

Front bar is damaged, they hit a pole and buggered up the drivers side. Bonnet was damaged.

I am impressed with my vehicle though, it managed to outrun a highway patrol. Cheering about that, the highway patrol car blew up trying to keep up!

But not happy about my car and plates being known to every copper this side of sydney, gonna get pulled over even more now!

not hard to outrun the cops. i know someone who did it in a stock 6 cylinder eb falcon without going over 145kmh (in a 100 zone). he didn't even know they were chasing him. they only caught him cause he stopped on the side of the road to talk to a mate.

as for the engine/turbo. the turbo will be somewhat obvious as to whether it is blown because it will either make horrible noises or blow smoke, however you won't know whether it has had damage done that has shortened it's life. it may blow in 6 months time. for the engine a compression test will answer some questions, however unless you had previously had one done you won't know for sure if it is any worse off than it was previously.

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not hard to outrun the cops. i know someone who did it in a stock 6 cylinder eb falcon without going over 145kmh (in a 100 zone). he didn't even know they were chasing him. they only caught him cause he stopped on the side of the road to talk to a mate.

+1 I know many a person who has outrun the highway patrol, the have rules as to how fast they are allowed to go in pursuit of a vehicle, a crim doesnt. You can drive at 200km/h+ and unless they are lucky and have backup further up the road or a chopper close by you'll be gone and out of sight in under 90 seconds at flat chat.

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i thought i just had a good vehicle... hahaha

pain in the arse with insurance though. They have had it a week already, been assessed by them as repairable. Sent to a smash repair, they now have to write up a quote which they cant do until friday or possibly monday. That will then take 2-3days to be processed by the insurance agency. After that, if it is decided that it is repairable it will take approx 2 and a half weeks to get the damage repaired.

Now i work as a cook, if it took me a month to get someone their steak, they would be pissed off!

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the reason it will take 2.5 weeks to fix is probably because of a mix of 3 things

1: they would have to order a bonnet and any other panels/parts they need. so expect a few days at least on them

2: the work alone will take a few days. i had a mate who is a panel beater do a respray on my car. he was doing it fitting it in between other jobs (but he was doing most of it straight away) he was respraying the whole drivers side of the car, bonnet and boot, as well as welding up some small rust holes around the back window. he started the car thursday lunch time. finished preping it about 8pm that night. firday morning it was painted and baked. buffed/polished saturday morning. so that was 2 days for a relatively small amount of work.

3: the panel shop will probably have a back log of work, as well as the fact that any work that isn't an insurance job will more than likely have priority over insurance work because they get paid more for it. the insurance company tells the panel shop how much they will pay per hour to repair the car, paint the car etc. and different insurance companies pay different rates. the rate can vary by $20 or $30 per hour. also if the panel shop quotes for 10 hours work and the insurance company only thinks it should take 7 hours to fix they will only pay them for the 7 hours (this is also why it's a lot harder to sneak extra repairs through and claim them on insurance these days). my mate was telling me that he hates cars with multilayer pearls, etc because they take twice as long to paint, but they still only get paid the same amount as if it was a solid colour, so they may do 4 hours work and only get paid for 2. so for this reason insurance jobs aren't high priority jobs.

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Yeah i get that it takes time to get the work done and these guys are pretty good, so there is a fair backlog of work.

Im just frustrated about not having my car and the amount of fartarsing around that the insurance agency doing. Argh!

I just want my car back :'(

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It took me 2 months to get my car back from panel shop mate, no insurance company will honour their repair guarantee when its supply of your parts taking time FYI.

New strut, new bonet, bumper etc. Car would have been done at the end of the first month if the guys in Japan had sent the right parts (came wrong 3 times).

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Just count yourself lucky you're not in WA.. I've got a spray painter mate who said that after the epic hailstorm the other month, his shop has THREE YEARS work from ONE insurer.. and they do work for 4 different insurers!

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Make sure you check over the car thoroughly when you get it back, make sure the paint is blended correctly and if there were any marks there beforehand that you'd like to get rid of mention that too!

It's good to hear you got the car back, hopefully they haven't thrashed it to the shithouse.

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