B10 - Sunday, June 12, 1983 - North Shore News

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The rising cost of fender benders

Despite the fact that in-
surance settlements for hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars
make dramatic reading, the
most expensive part of car
insurance is fixing broken
cars, not broken bones.

According to Insurance
Bureau of Canada, approx-
imately 75 cents of every
dollar of claims cost goes to
pay for repairing damaged
vehicles and other property
damage while the remaining
25 cents covers the cost of
bodily injury payments.

To demonstrate the in-

creasing cost of parts, paint
and labour, 122 actual ap-
praisals from IBC Appraisal
Centres across Canada were
selected a random in January
1982.

Early in 1982, each of
these appraisals was updated
to show current parts and
labour prices. The total bill
for 122 cars was $103,040.53
in January, 1981. In January
of 1982 it would have been
$116,775.65.

A major

part of auto

repair expenses is the cost of
In the
10 years replacement

replacement parts.
last

parts prices have increased
substantially.

From 1981 to 1982 the cost
of a Toyota Celica hood
panel climbed from $163.95
to $206.60, up 26 per cent,
and the door moulding for a
Chevrolet Monte Carlo from
$16.95 to $25.95, an increase
of 53 per cent.

In the same period, a
fender for a V.W. Rabbit
climbed 20 per cent, from
$138 to $179 and bumper
brackets for an AMC Jeep

jumped 41 per cent, from
$109.50 to $154.03.
I.B.C. notes that these

NEWS photo Ellsworth Dickson

SHOWING OFF the new Ford Tempo, recently arrived, is Susan Seeley, Sales Secretary
at DAve Buck Ford in North Vancouver. The new car is Ford's answer to solving the
automotive probelms of economy, performance, comfort and aesthetics. The Tempos

retail for under $9,000.

Helps Handsworth fo Silver

FROM PAGE B9

were Mark Osborne trom
Windsor, who won the triple
jump, Terry Cardle of
Argyle. winner of the 1500m
trun, and the Handsworth
girls 4x400m_ relay team.
composed of Susane Sump

ton, Elaine Prescott,
Bruneau and Candy
son

Other North Shore high
lights included the — third
place finish by Handsworth

Alison
Thom

4x100m boys relay team
Flaine Prescott) of Hand
sworth coming third ino the
400m hurdles Susanne

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repair costs could be reduc-
ed if the auto industry built
tougher cars, but that would
probably result in higher
prices for new vehicles. The
real answer, according to
1.B.C., lies in safe driving.

Because safer driving can
reduce claims costs it follows
that since the largest portion
of insurance expenses in-
volves fixing cars that is
where the largest savings
could be achieved.

Even “little” accidents are
expensive to repair today
and while the big insurance
settlements get the
headlines, it’s the accumula-

drives up the cost of auto in-
surance.

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