Someone backed up into me and smashed my jdm front earlier today. Bottom line, my front is literally gone. Does anyone know or have any experience with insurance dealing with jdm fronts due to the fact that it's "non-oem"? I'm not sure if it matters, but I have a 95 GSR. I just got my car back from the paint shop 2 months ago, and now I have to deal with all this crap again. Any insight would greatly be appreciated. Thank you

 

hey dude im pretty sure if u would show receipts you should be ok..but insurance companies as u know like to be complete douche bags...so they may consider the fact that its not factory they wont cover it

 

Yes they should cover it.

 

they should just stick to your guns and don't back down !!!!

 

its on your car so they should cover it. my buddy use to have this ugly *** bodykit on his car and some dude hit him. the insurance paid for a brand new bodykit. ahaha but he took the money instead

 

As eg said if you have the receipts i wouldnt worry about it...If they give you any mess you might want to look into the small print on their policy and see if you can find any loop holes

 

Call your insurance agent or company and ask?? They might cover it if you have the receipts for the parts/work.

 

good luck.

 

Covering body kits is one thing. Asking insurance to cover an illegal front end might be different.

I'm curious to see what comes of it.

AAA refused a claim I made once because "anything that wasn't on the car when purchased new issn't covered", or so I was told over the phone. Maybe AAA just has one of the more evil policies, I only went with them because they were much cheaper than anything else.

 

well i'm curious too, because technically it is an OEM front end, what makes it illegal? are the headlights not DOT or something here in the US? i know jdm EG headlights are glass and not plastic like ours, so if thats the case i can see that for the head lights..

 

Lack of the US mandated minimum front impact protection (radiator support differences), RHD headlamps (and non-DOT approved as well), lack of front side reflectors (Japan does not require these), and lack of front side marker lamps (also not required in Japan). There might be a few other things as well, but those are the big ones.

Glass vs. plastic is not as important as RHD vs. LHD. Then we also have this pesky law that pretty much states "anything not DOT approved is illegal" for headlamps.

 

good to know, i also was wondering the same question for my front. And tunernoob hit the basics on the differences they might question, but i doubt it.