Ok how can you tell if the frame of the car has been bent or worked on? Is there any way to spot it right of the bat?

Thanks

 

What area of the car, generally itd be referred to as the "unibody" since the entire car is welded together in many peices and does not have a specific "frame" like a truck or older cars.

What area of the car are you talking about though?

 

Nothing easy about checking for a bent frame.

Lift the car up and look under the car for any stress marks along the front and rear rails (stress marks= paint coming off, heat spots from torch to soften metal, cracked paint, or anything wrong with the undercoating).
If you don't see anything on the bottom then start looking at all the gaps around the car, they all should be about the same distance and evenly from top to bottom (of Door, etc). Look inside all the jambs of anything like over-spray or cracked paint.
All of these tips are not guarantied to work, but will help you to start investigating.

 

Mainly looking at the front end of the car. It has the JDM front end to it so Im trying to see if the frame is bent or not. If the frame has been bent and repaired would you be able to see the work that was done like you said with the metal being softend and spots on the rails? Or is it kind of hard to tell if its been on a frame rack or not?

 

Look for bondo in the engine compartment. The jdm front end does require a new radiator support but it should have been spot welded properly at the specified points and there should be no bondo in any inner area. Good luck

 

If a car goes on a frame rack they usually have to clamp it down, so look for marks.

 

take it to frame straightening /auto body experts. the things people will do now a days to hide frame/collision damage is actually surprising...

 

Where exactly would you say the marks would be is there a specific spot they clamp it or is it mainly just clamped where they area needs to be fixed? I mean can I pop my head under the car and see it? Or do I need to go throw it on a rack? Its another used R that Im looking at so I just want to make sure he said he had a front collison so I want to make sure its clean.

 

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In that you (already) have this precious little nugget of information, what exactly are you asking us here in the ITR forum for?

Ask the present owner what was done to the car and how any repairs were handled. If that isn't inough for you have the car inspected with the present owner's information in mind. Pretty simple. eh?