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Originally Posted by flabby
They have quite a few engineers who designed and built the first cars, why wouldn't they just do the repairs inhouse?
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Building and repairing are completely different arts. Even if you bend a piece of metal back to its original form, its physical properties were altered by the action. It may not be as strong as it was before.
Worse, carbon fiber can't really be repaired. It can certainly be patched, but otherwise your only option is replacing the whole part.
Then there's a whole host of unknowns about what structural features were compromised by the impact. Really, any car that's ever been in an accident is never 100%, no matter how skilled the repair job was.
-Ryan