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Jul 14, 2003 | 11:03 AM

#31

Rob x-7

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Originally Posted by 93 R1' date='Jul 13 2003, 10:40 PM

The entire body is carbon fiber. What happens when some *** bumps into it in the parking lot and ***** up a body panel? According to

MBUSA(mercedes of america) as of right now the car will be sent back to McLaren in England for body repairs becuase there are no body shops in this country equipped to repair the CF properly.

Considering the body is painted Cf this comment is untrue.

There are plenty of people who can fix CF, and it can be fixed stronger then

if it were metal panels being fixed.

CF was being used on things long before some shmoe decided to put it

on cars.

Jul 14, 2003 | 01:58 PM

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93 R1

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I don't know Rob. This is what I was told by one of the engineer guys up at the Mercedes headquarters. Maybe he was blowing smoke up my ***.

Your the body man so I'll go by what you said.

Jul 14, 2003 | 02:06 PM

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Rob x-7

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I was in no way flaming you, just want to make that clear

If I had a $400,000 car and the choice to get it fixed locally in under a week

or to ship it half way across the world and hope it doesnt get more damage

or mis-use there and back I would go for the local option, no to mention how long

the whole process would take.