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The thing is, its hard to gauge if a carbon component is near failure due to impact, stress fatigue etc.. You have a similar issue will aluminium to some extent. But aluminium frames and components tend to be sufficiently "overbuilt" where carbon stuff seems to only have as much material as necessary as its designed to be "racelight". So if it gets a wollopping, it might be fucked and not even look it.
You cant just bash it back like steel either.
*Generalising of course.