I own a 96 Integra. I bought the Integra with a set of cheap ebay "coilover" springs and stock struts. After a couple of months of owning my car the struts and springs completely went out, the struts were blown and the springs drooped like crazy. Every where I'd go, the suspension would bottom out whenever I'd hit a bump, dip or pothole in the road. After like a month or two of neglect, the strut tower cracked. The reason I think it cracked is because the strut would pretty much hammer the strut tower up whenever it would bottom out.

I posted some pictures of the damage, and wanted to get an opinion on whether it's repairable, worth repairing, and an estimate of how much it would be to have a shop repair it.







Thanks.

 

That's going to be expensive, probably not worth it.

 

it was bound to happen man

 

Wow, never seen that. Just shows you, its not worth getting cheap parts. It's dangerious! I don't know if its worth fixing or how you would fix that. Goodluck though

 

It's not because of cheap parts. Obviously corrosion did this.


Modified by MidShipCivic at 12:21 AM 10/7/2007

 

^^^
Who said anything about paint?

 

Eh ment to type parts.

 

Do you guys think the damage is repairable?

 

It's repairable but VERY COSTLY .

 

never seen that before

 

might even have to cut off peices of another car and weld it in place

 

That car llos to have had the upper tower replaced before......Rust didnt cause that....That is a failure from someone not knowing how to weld

 

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X2 you can clearly see that those are mig welds, I can even see a hole that was welded shut and never penetrated the piece underneath it.

 

I don't know if it is failure. That is what a spot weld looks like when it is torn apart. It usually takes the other metal along with it. That shows good penetration when it tears the metal. What most likely happend is the constant banging from the suspension weakend the metal allowing it to finaly tear. It is called metal fatigue. And anyways that looks like factory undercoating.

 

meh f*k it just drive it the way it is.......who cares...

 

You've got to be shitten me if you said that.

 

Do you guys think I could sell it as is, and how much I'd be able to get for it?

It's a '96 GSR Integra with 124k miles, The driver side rear quarter panel is dented in. The engine is stock besides an AEM intake. It has 15in red Rota GT3s, skunk 2 camber arms in front, and new Kuhmo SPT tires in front. The car also has the newer (i think the 2000) Integra front end. It also has a pioneer MP3 player and Black leather integra front and rear seats. I also have a cracked Type R style front lip and a quart of Champion ship white paint that will come with the car.

 

dude if youv got full coverage insurance, id get that car stolen, or wreck that ****, your not goin to be able to sell it for anything without being shady about it, and you dont want to dothat

 

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It's a '96 GSR Integra with 124k miles, The driver side rear quarter panel is dented in. The engine is stock besides an AEM intake. It has 15in red Rota GT3s, skunk 2 camber arms in front, and new Kuhmo SPT tires in front. The car also has the newer (i think the 2000) Integra front end. It also has a pioneer MP3 player and Black leather integra front and rear seats. I also have a cracked Type R style front lip and a quart of Champion ship white paint that will come with the car.</TD></TR></TABLE>

You would get more parting it out. Between the cracked strut tower and dented quarter panel you would be lucky to get 2000 for your car

 

same thing happened to my brothers db8, that whole tower was ripped apart like that pix above on the pass. side. the shop had compress the 2 split towers back together and got it welded shut in and out for 80 bucks and if anything happens they would do it for free next time, now the car is perfect once again, but not really too much of a drop anymore.

 

part out the car, if you are mechanically inclined buy a shell and just swap everything over.

 

man That Sucks good luck but dont sell it to some inocent person thats not koo to hand your problems to some one else it will come back to you