Replacing auto parts presents problems
A reader once called and expressed this frustration: After another driver backed into her car and hit her front bumper, his insurance company wanted to replace her bumper with an aftermarket product.
She felt that by not replacing the bumper with the same thing, the car's value would diminish.
The accuracy of that claim depends upon whom you ask.
Some body shop owners and auto dealers say they can tell a difference during trade-in if a vehicle has aftermarket parts and they discount the trade-in.
``A good trained eye will look at a hood, for example, and be able to tell that hood is not the original hood,'' said Lou Kaltenstein, president of Norris Auto Group, with dealerships and body shops in Lodi, Medina and Middleburg Heights. ``Would there be diminished value? Absolutely.''
But those in the insurance industry disagree.
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