This is why you take your car to a GOOD body shop!!

[Slow Joe]

So.. As some of you know mine and Kristie's 9-3 Convertible was in an accident before we got it. No big issue, right? Well it wouldn't of been if it was repaired 100% correctly... The body work is great, and everything else looks good... However when it came to attaching the door hinge, it seems that they decided to cut some corners... :rolf

I'll let the pics talk for themselves... (with rolling commentary, of course :thumbsup)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d181/joe53051/DSC02783.jpg
The hinge was seperating from the door slightly... Hrmm wonder why...

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d181/joe53051/DSC02785.jpg
That's what it should of looked like...

Time to take the door off...

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d181/joe53051/DSC02786.jpg
Oh look... No more door :rolf

Wait a sec... This don't look quite right...

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d181/joe53051/DSC02787.jpg

:rolf

My quick fix... I need to get stainless steel hardware, but this will suffice for the summer :thumbsup

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d181/joe53051/DSC02789.jpg

Good as new!

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d181/joe53051/DSC02790.jpg

:rolf

I just had to share this... I was... Amazed when I saw this... Come on people, don't be lazy ALL the time... :rolf At least it wasn't somewhere I took it, otherwise I would of been Hot!

[Red97GTP]

They couldve a least used shims to make it right!!

[Al]

Was it Macco?

[Slow Joe]

Interestingly enough, it don't need shims... At least not according to the Saab Workship Information System... All it really needed was to be bolted back on to the body... Correctly :rolf

It wasn't like that when we bought it, the welds cracked about 6 months ago and progressively got worse...

It was a body ship in MI that fixed it... Oh well..

[Slow Joe]

No, I know for a fact it was NOT Maaco...

#1. Maaco couldn't match that color well enough...
#2. The body work is way too good...
#3. It's not a "Maaco Standard" color :rolf

[Red97GTP]

#4 it doesn't have overspray all over it!

[Slow Joe]

That's the truth... Plus the paint isn't runny looking, fish eyed, or watercolor looking :rolf

When we first got the car I would of never believed it was repainted. They did an excellent job on the paint and pannel line-up. Then we got rearended, and the shop we took it to did a great job matching the factory color, however our insurance company wouldn't pay for them to blend it into the quarter... Then you could tell... However both places did an excellent job laying the paint...

[FoxStang]

That's the truth... Plus the paint isn't runny looking, fish eyed, or watercolor looking :rolf

When we first got the car I would of never believed it was repainted. They did an excellent job on the paint and pannel line-up. Then we got rearended, and the shop we took it to did a great job matching the factory color, however our insurance company wouldn't pay for them to blend it into the quarter... Then you could tell... However both places did an excellent job laying the paint...

Who is/was your insurance company at the time? If you don't mind me asking.

[Slow Joe]

American Family.

They actually still are our insurance company. I'm sure that if the body shop we took it to had called me and informed me that they weren't able to blend with the quarter, I could of called in and asked that they let them. However it ended up being more of an after the fact type of thing. The body shop it was at did a great job, but didn't notice that the drivers side of the car had been repainted, and the passengers hadn't until after they were done.

[Exitspeed]

I love that color.