Prime has a Aluminum Hood

Lol until you’re involved in an accident and realize the carbon fiber rear will cost 4K to fix.

 

Particle board.

 

Is it only a hood? How about the rest of body parts?

 

May I ask which insurance company? Purchase value for 5 years is great. Usually they only insure up to fair market replacement value. Oh, wait. You are in Canada. The plan like that probably does not exist in the US.

 

The hood and hatch have been aluminum from at least the gen2 Prius. Those are the only big body parts I know of, but high strength steel is now commonly used in the body to save weight.

Too heavy.

 

Small Hatch dent cost me $850. 10 years ago because it is not repairable.

 

The growing pains of new technology. Aluminum and high strength steel require different tools and techniques to fix than the steel cars have used for decades. In the beginning of their use, few body shops will have the ability to fix them. Which means high cost for a repair, or replacing the entire part because of the lack of expertise locally.

 

I’m pretty sure that’s the case for our 2009 Prius (Gen-2) as well.

I’m teaching my wife to drive, so we got some magnetic “Please be Patient; Student Driver” signs for it, and ... let’s just say it was pretty challenging to find any place where they would stick! Under the spoiler? Glass! Bumper? Plastic! Hood? Aluminum!

Finally got some adhesive stickers for the rear bumper, and put the magnetic ones on the front doors!

 

i should stick one of those on the back of my car

 

Aluminum hood has been around for a long time. Most new cars have aluminum hoods.

 

For me, the bumper sticker would read, “Please be Patient, Unlike You, I Drive Carefully” (“you” referring to the readers of the sticker, not the readers of this message).

 

Hopefully it's a total loss and have enough equity so you're not in the hole.
Honestly beyond a certain point I wouldn't want the car back.

moto z3 ?

 

Aluminum is such an exotic material to use anymore, my 1989 Lincoln Town Car has an aluminum hood I believe.

I heard one of the Audi's went from using aluminum back to steel. I would have to look to find which model.

 

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That's what I have, it was a little more than Geico but worth it for more coverage.

 

Aluminum costs more than steel, and is not as easy to work with. That is what makes it an 'exotic' material for cars. Hoods are regularly seen made out of it because it's a part that can easily be made out of the metal.

Range Rover went back to using aluminum for their bodies not to long ago. Then that Audi may not have gone back to steel, but moved on to high strength steel. Mazda's SkyActiv suite makes large use of hs steel to lower weight