2016 GMC Acadia

Front end gone. Everything behind it fine.

Why this one was worth bidding on

Front impacts look dramatic and frighten bidders off, which is precisely why they're worth looking at. The question is never how bad does it look — it's how far back did it go.

Bumper, headlight, grille, radiator support: all bolt-on, all replaceable. Once the frame rails and the firewall are straight, the rest is parts and hours.

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Finished

Front-end damage is the cheapest kind of scary. Learn to tell a bent support from a bent frame and you've learned most of what this takes.