Cardboard Is The New Bondo
Submitted By: Romy A
Favorite Comment: Fixer dono1 says, “Good gas mileage, great warranty… it’s just a little too boxy for me.”
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Packing tape? Everyone knows duct tape would work much better, and be more stylish.
Good gas mileage, great warranty… it’s just a little too boxy for me.
“These are the dent resistant doors”
They didnt dent, did they!!!
Composite body panels are great – until they’re *not*. I have a 15 year old minivan that still has no rust or dents… No rust on the body panels, anyway. But, when they fail, they fail BIG.
The problem is, these were designed to resist normal-sized shopping carts (everyone remember that ad?). In today’s up-sized world, a they’re lucky the typical Costco/Sam’s Club cart didn’t total the car.
I think the car needs more tape and boxes to fix the fender its not done till its done.
@dono Volvo- boxy but safe.
Those are some fine looking speed holes.
The lower right box even has folding instruction on it!
It drags a bit to the right at high speed but other than that it runs just as new!
Plastic, meet cardboard, carboard, meet plastic
@dono1
^ I vote for this as fave comment.
I’d still rather drive this than a rice tuner with a stupid, cheap body kit.
Does it not bother anyone else that the body is not dented but rather CHIPPING OFF like an egg shell?
@DH
Saturn sedan, and I’m betting they hit something in sub-zero weather. Frozen plastic doesn’t bend, it shatters. (Remind me to never try this first-hand.)
Needs more Duct Tape, and bigger chunks of cardboard. (Ugly, but better than hearing the wind whistle through the holes…)
with extra cargo room like this, who needs a minivan?
This little guy must have been parked next to the red truck when Chuck Norris kicked it.
Judging by the dent in the bumper cover, I’m going to guess that this car scraped along something from the nose to the door. And, that just ripped the panels to shreds.
My boyfriend accidentally hit a buck that ran into the road with his Saturn sedan. The front fender panel on the passenger side shattered to pieces. He hasn’t fixed it like this creative owner did, but still looks just as ugly. Additionally, this occurred during a warm autumn evening in CA, so temperature doesn’t matter.
Other side says-”will work for food”
@Epic ideas
I think they were afraid if they used much more cardboard and tape that the Postal Service would try to send the car to Abu Dhabi.
Why do I now wonder if under their fragile shells all Saturns are powered by enormous yellow chicks?
I personally think they should have covered it with microchips or at the very least duct tape. They wouldn’t even have needed to colour it in.
What country is this from anyway?
where do they make plastic cars? (this is the first time i’ve ever heard of actual plastic, not glass fibre or carbon)
Comments make me think this is an unknown american trick for cheapening cars?
If this makes cardboard the new Bondo, then packing tape is the new clear coat.
This way up!
Contents fragile!
This fix isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Let me guess, plastic without carbon fiber reinforcement? That’s like concrete without re-bar.
Never hide your drugs inside the door panels of a plastic car.
Naw….Duct tape insulfoam and roof cement that’ll keep the weather out.
Yeah make it a nano body.
I wonder if they realize that those panels can be unbolted/clipped and replaced in a matter of minutes?
Dude, you’ve only got one life. Use packing tape.
Who says cars can’t be fashion-forward?
@ProDarwin
Ahhh….wouldn’t that take away from the “statement” here? This is art, Man!!
@Sue
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..how corny!!love it!!
No joke, that looks EXACTLY like my car. its my car 2 years newer. They probably hit a fire hydrant just like i did cause its the EXACT same thing.
@Inquisitive
It’s a General Motors. Saturn Div. Many GM cars have plastic panels. They used to make them in the United States of America, but GM just recently announced they were shutting them down.
Well theres a ghetto fix for you!! ha ha ha ha oooooooohhh ha ha ha ha
It only started happening in the last few years, but at this point I’m pretty sure ALL the major auto makers are doing it. And most of the time it’s fine; they don’t need body work nearly as often as metal or fiberglass cars. But, you know, nothing’s perfect. (Indeed, even cardboard covered with tape isn’t perfect, because it’s flammable.)
Its a older Saturn and the cheapo version at that. many parts of cars now are plastic, bumpers, quarterpanels, gas tanks, trim, etc. Usually budget cars like this have all plastic side panels (not to mention in the 80′s plastic was looked at with awe by manufacturers as the body material of the future…)
Saturn stopped making plastic body paneled cars a long while ago because they wanted to make GM cars in the Saturn plants. Also, the seams for plastic cars is wider that steel needs and it was adversely affecting their consumer survey responses. This photo does make me very nervous about my 01 Saturn. I live in a rural community now and there are lots of deer, cattle, goats, etc, that I see on the road. hmmmm Not so funny, this photo.
Even boxier than Volvo if you don’t mind the slight expense on safetystandard.
That’s dent resistant doors for ya.
No,I1
the other side actually says “The End is Nigh!”
Paper or Plastic? I says why not both!!
it’s a woody
Actually, my 2007 Saturn ION has the fiberglass body panels as well, so they didn’t “stop making them a long while ago.”
I did something like this to my ’99 SL2, but it was no shopping cart. It was another car doing 40mph into my rear left quarter. Those panels are pretty sturdy, even in sub-zero Missouri winters (yes, it gets below well below freezing here), but as someone else said, nothing’s perfect. It won’t deform like steel, but if you beat on it hard enough, it’s going to break.
I replaced my damaged car parts, though. I think my parents would have asked for my college tuition back if I had attempted to, um, “repair” my car like this guy. Wow.
The packing tape is fine, it matches the boxes. But I’d like to know just what the crap HIT him!?