Auto body shops say they are seeing more customers, as drivers continue to dig their cars out from the snow and ice.<\/p>\n
Anthony Cannizzaro, an employee at Tom & Arties Auto & Collision Repair in Canarsie, said drivers are putting the pedal to the metal through heavy snow and ice, which is causing damage to their cars.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you don\u2019t repair it right away and you keep driving, then you do more damage,\u201d said Cannizzaro.<\/p>\n
He said, so far, they\u2019re seeing broken side mirrors from parked cars sticking out in the street, as well as undercover casings coming off.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are not realizing that [the undercover car casings] get caught, so they back up or they\u2019re driving, which rips them off; and they\u2019re only secured by fasteners and they\u2019re plastic,\u201d said Cannizzaro.<\/p>\n
Cannizzaro showed News 12 one undercarriage casing from a Toyota Highlander. It was completely ripped off the SUV and could\u2019ve cost more than $1,000 to repair.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of a sudden, I’m driving and people said, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re bumper\u2019s hanging off,\u2019\u201d said Buddha Allah, the SUV owner. \u201cI know it was fine before the snow. It was fine this morning when I started driving.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cannizzaro suggested that drivers remove as much snow and ice from cars as possible, including from underneath the vehicle, and use 4-wheel drive if they have it.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy going back and forth on the snow, you can do other damage besides the covers,\u201d said Cannizzaro. \u201cYou can do transmission damage, engine damage, [and] your axles.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cannizzaro added that towing your damaged car to a mechanic is better than driving it around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auto body shops say they are seeing more customers, as drivers continue to dig their cars out from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[52563,98,100,99,23556,8141,15309,51967,52564,9,24,63,8555,8993],"class_list":["post-119858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-black-ice","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-canarsie","tag-cars","tag-damages","tag-ice-danger","tag-maintenance","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-snow","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}