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£1200 anyway. It seems such as pity. As you can see from the photo, the damage doesnt look too bad and it's still perfectly driveable obviously. I'm gutted. I loose my no-claims bonus and my car, because I inadvertantly steered into an "invisible" bollard. Humpf
Feck the no claims bonus just leave the car as it is. If you can, get your mits on a door at a scrappy. Same goes for the sill.=oP Sills are available too ( have a look at the Mk1 club site for a link ) or Mk3 Escort 2 door sill apparently can be made to fit with a little work. I could keep but I'd still have to get work done on the sill which I think was the main issue, and I cant afford to. What would it go for as scrap/spares dya think? Cheers for the advice.. Don't claim on your insurance, just get the bits 2nd hand and get it repaired shouldn't cost much at all.Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
the door,side skirt and trim etc are all readily available second hand.have a word with paul woods about a new sill.he will give you a realistic price and probably do it for you if you are prepared to travel a bit. catch up with him, mk1turbo, or click on the twobrutal site.if you want his email PM me.you will get her back on the road for less than your premium increase would be if you claimed.- you can see it defo needs the sill straightening out, the door fixing, and the skirts replacing. I can't afford this right now so, I might sell cheap it to someone who can.
Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour( drill hole, screw in self tapper and use it to pull the dent out ). Door doesn't look too bad, just a question of which is cheapest - knock the dent out and quick blow over of paint or buy a 2nd hand door and paint to match. 'breaking for spares' where you may get some The general consensus seems to be - get it fixed! I will look into getting second hand door etc. If it get's too time consuming, I'll be back here next week to flog it! Cheers for all the info. Nick Job done. There is no way that car should end up scrapped for that small amount of damage. What a crazy world we live in, eh?- it should hide with a new sideskirt (always on ebay, I may have a pair of white ones if you want them? [took the whole mk1b kit off when fitting my eurosport kit, Tom got my front splitters, but the side skirts and triangles are still there], price of postage only) - is easy to fix... either new one from Mr T, or the cheap route of a mk3/4 Escort sill, again, hidden by the sideskirt. Can't see that work costing more than a hundred quid or so, tbh. Again, no more than 200 quid at the outside (I had the rear 3/4 panel on my Supra resprayed for 130 quid after some berk drove down the side of my car at a junction, and it's about 3-4 times the size of that area!). 
do something you wouldn't have done before the prang. (you can drive as hard as you like with a car that is already dented!)(getting rusty) and I intend to do some mad trackdays next year. Was an insurance write off. We got £2000 insurance for the car, bought it back from them for £300, stuck it in the body shop, got brand new Toyota wing, inner metal bumper, bought from Ebay front plastic bumper, lower vallence, got the bodyshop to fit everything and gave it a full respray. Cost £700 for the work and about £400 in parts. She scored almost a grand from the insurance company which we used for a good holiday in the Caribbean. The cars a CAT 'C' but we dont plan on selling her so its not a problem. Also when the premium came through to re-insure the car it was less then the previous year before she had the accident. Good luck cheap (I've got loads of doors and skirts!), they'd just need spraying.