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economist suntribune news saturday oct 5 2002 the 2002 fair is hopping action from the first two days of the 2002 markham fair top the big crowd cheers on a spectacular crash during thursday nights demolition derby right jenna kluz of the lincoln leapers shows her skill for the thursday afternoon crowd below veronica armstrong 12 of markham with her jersey calf perimeter mead the grand champi on 4h calf mpp backs collision repair fighters by kathleen griffin staff writer adelaide francisco admits there were red flags she should have seen when she bought a used toyota camry from a scarborough auto shop last year the passenger door wouldnt open the salesman advised her to only run the engine for five minutes inside the garage because of fumes and when she finally did drive it on the road there were weird noises coming from the wheel wells but she gave the shop owner the benefit of the doubt paid the man more than 1 1000 and drove off a year later shes embroiled in a court case to recover her money and worried about her childrens safety hasnt driven the ear in months the court advised her to find an independent mechanic to testify on her behalf enter the new cadscan centre on bullock drive in markham cadscan is a computeraided threedimensional structural inspection technology it measures the structural tolerance and integri ty of a vehicle in accordance with the manufacturers design it can identify when a vehicle has been rebuilt in some way especially the crush or crumble zones which are designed to absorb the energy of a crash protecting the occupants results of a cadscan test on mrs franciscos car were shocking crumble zones had been col lapsed and destroyed the comput er imaging system revealed right and left quarter panels and the roof panels had been welded back together and were not sealed the door post that meets the wind shield was cracked and technicians determined sometime in the past both the front and back end had been involved in a collision as well the scan revealed the roof had buckled at one point and been completely replaced it was a salvage car it had been written off but it passed the safety certification and an emissions test and we didnt know mrs francisco said that roof was ready to land on our heads and there weretfiree holes in the floor allowing in car bon monoxide we could have been poisoned that roof was ready to land on our heads and there were three holes in the floor allowing in carbon monoxide we could have been poisoned last week cadscan shop own ers sam risorto and mario livia played host to oak ridges mpp frank bdees who has tabled a new bill aimed at governing collision repair in ontario bill 165 has passed second reading at queens park mr klees who was named minister of tourism on thursday was treated to a demonstration of the cadscan technology and met members of the consumer fight see klees page 14 staff photosjoerd witteveen cadscan automobile scanning ownersoperators lybron neblett centre front and salvatore risorto centre back explain their comput erized scanning system to lawyers harvin pitch left and colin stevenson right both of teplitsky colson barristers of toronto the equipment can identify formerly wrecked cars that have been rebuilt wed like to make one thing perfectly clear ibc boclmer dr harold a stein dr albert cheskes dr raymond m stein your vision kv institute schedule your free lasik evaluation 905 4702020 wwwbochnercom 147 main street umonveule