"Clipping" -- A Dangerous Repair Technique Called for By Some Insurers

You might not be aware that there are no federally mandated safety standards for vehicle repair nor is there any Federal oversight of the collision repair industry.

 In Fact, the vast majority of U.S. States does not even register or license collision repairers. So, the person repairing you car might use unapproved repair techniques such as "clipping” or “sectioning" or other unapproved repair processes to get your car back on the road quickly and cheaply to satisfy a cost-conscious insurer. In many instances, the insurer referred the unwary consumer to their preferred repairer.

“Clipping”, or “sectioning”, typically entails cutting off the entire front or rear half of the damaged vehicle and welding the salvaged and assumed undamaged half of a previously wrecked and totaled vehicle in its place. It is most often as unsafe as it sounds however this practice is carried out every day; and you may be ready to purchase one.
Because there are no mandated repair standards which have been determined to be safe, someone you love might be riding in a vehicle repaired like this Mazda. When it was in a subsequent accident, the car ripped apart, leaving the occupants to the mercy of providence.

One must ask themselves: Which one of your loved ones would you want to be in the back seat of a vehicle repaired as this one was?