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mich800
Jun 08, 2018Explorer
ol' yeller wrote:Powerdude wrote:
Hey, you can take those burned out steel shells, reinstall the hardware, paint them, and they'll be as good as new.
A friend of mine got a burned out door shell from a junkyard way back. He just reinstalled all the rubber and plastic parts, the glass, re-painted it, and it was fine !
Can't do that with an aluminum door.
Heat warps steel and also ruins the hardness of the steel. That's why you'd be hard pressed to find a good body shop that would use a burned part from a steel body for a repair. Also prior poster makes a good point about adhesives.
Somehow I think one would be replacing a lot more than some hardware to restore a total burned vehicle. Maybe in a vehicle that had a small fire but not one that was completely engulfed.
I see you are talking about just parts on the entire vehicle. In that case sure no problem.
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