[Moppie]

I currently drive a car I bought off a panel beater, it was one he bought off a customer who didn't want any more as it had been damamged.

He had to replace the entire right rear quarter, rear bumber and all the door locks.
He admitted to doing a cheap job on the door locks and bumber, even showed me what he had done, and sure enough the bumber dosnt quite fit right, and the door locks are a bit dodgy at times.
However, he did do a top notch job on the rear quarter panel damage, and given that the car is 15 years old its currently the straightest, smothest best looking section on the car.

Before purchasing it I drove a mid 70s Civic that had been diven a completly new front cut. It was literaly cut in half at the firewall and a new front end from another car was stiched on. The job was so well done you could not tell unless someone told you, or in my case you saw the car before it was repaired.


As said above by several people, both of them more expiarianced with cars and engineering than most people will ever be, if done correctly there is no reason why a repaired car should not be as good as it was, or even better than it was, before the damage occured.