Is my daughter getting "took" - door ding repair

[RhondaHonda]

Where is your daughter located? Those are fairly high rates from what I recall but I’ve been away for some time. If she’s on the coast, probably right or the body shop is padding the rates a bit. A 2 hour repair and a fender blend isn’t unheard. They aren’t removing the fender but are removing the door which probably isn’t necessary.

If it were my car and someone gave me a few thousand dollars I’d try PDR and buffing the paint transfer as that may not even be through the paint. I’d at least suggest another estimate.

 

[AZjeff]

Right. So how is her friends insurance (if any) going to cover this?

A quick search shows anecdotal examples of this going both ways ways. Depends on what the insurance coverage states and what the parties agree too.

I was commenting on how the situation continues to be incorrectly portrayed even after pointing to what the OP said happened. Thread tunnel vision.

 

[johnmyster]

Big dealerships have spot repair paint touchup experts and paintless dent repair. Between the two of them, it renders the "gotta paint whole panels" body shop mentality unnecessary for something like this.

 

[dishdude]

Big dealerships have spot repair paint touchup experts and paintless dent repair. Between the two of them, it renders the "gotta paint whole panels" body shop mentality unnecessary for something like this.

Tough to do on metallic blue, but let's be honest here, this is a 7 year old low end BMW SUV, I doubt this thing is in pristine condition. I'd have a hard time trying to shake $2k out of someone for this...especially considering they had the integrity to stick around.

A few years ago I watched someone hit my car in a parking lot as I was walking to it and try to drive off. When I approached him, he denied hitting my car and sent his girlfriend out to talk to me. I had no problem shaking $600 out of his insurance company solely because he was such a douche about it.

 

[CKN]

Tough to do on metallic blue, but let's be honest here, this is a 7 year old low end BMW SUV, I doubt this thing is in pristine condition. I'd have a hard time trying to shake $2k out of someone for this...especially considering they had the integrity to stick around.

A few years ago I watched someone hit my car in a parking lot as I was walking to it and try to drive off. When I approached him, he denied hitting my car and sent his girlfriend out to talk to me. I had no problem shaking $600 out of his insurance company solely because he was such a douche about it.

BMW owners can be sticky about such things. Just saying.....

 

[SC Maintenance]

And don't park 'next to' other cars.

I don't. Then some clown parks next to me. 2 cars, sitting next to each other, on the back 40 of an empty parking lot.

Like moths to the flame.

I wonder how these people think to breath sometimes.

 

[SC Maintenance]

If it were my BMW there is no way I would let some crappy body shop repaint a whole side of factory for a ding like that. PDR and polish as best you can. Its a 7 year old car.

Having said that, its there car. They get what they want or it gets ugly. $2500 really isn't much money these days.

 

[TimeFlies]

A good friend of mine owns a body shop.
I sent him the pic and asked how much.
He said $800 to $1000 Canadian taxes included.

 

[Nesterenko]

I'd say she was taken .

 

[TimeFlies]

I'd say she was taken .

Definitely!

 

[RAVL]

Typo deleted

 

[Ethan2]

I'd say she was taken .

There’s really no place for prescriptivism in linguistics.

More importantly: to a native speaker of American English, “my daughter was taken” and “my daughter was took” do NOT mean the same thing.

 

[RooflessVW]

I'd say she was taken .

Liam?

 

[CKN]

A good friend of mine owns a body shop.
I sent him the pic and asked how much.
He said $800 to $1000 Canadian taxes included.

Without seeing an itemized quote his verbal quote is useless.Have to see his quote against the other one. Then it's apples to apples.

 

[TimeFlies]

Without seeing an itemized quote his verbal quote is useless.Have to see his quote against the other one. Then it's apples to apples.

He said that removing the door, fender etc is a time waster to pad the bill.
Remove inner door panel, hammer and dolly the dent out as good as can be.
The body filler will be so thin and small that a magnet will still stick there after the repair.
Mask off the area around the damage so no over spray gets on it.
Mix matching paint, actually matching, not the color code. Paint the area, let dry, sand, repaint, let dry, polish.
The dent in my grandmother's best friend's suv was way worse than that.
He repaired it, and I cannot see the repair, and I've tried and tried. Many different lights, sun, angles, magnet to not stick, etc. He gave her a special cash deal of 300. But said that if she was a stranger who walked in off the street it would have been $900 out the door. I had him touch up some damage on my 1969 Swinger, caused by a flying table, used by the 50/50 ticket sales peopl, at a car show, in a sudden wind storm, that slammed into my mint car. He was there at the car show with his Duster, and said not to worry, he would fix it for me. I have tried to find his repairs since, can't see even 1 of the 6 spots. In my opinion he is a genius at dent and paint repair. He has told me probably 50 times over the 10 years we've been friends, never use the paint code from a car maker to mix paint. Yet some places will just use the paint code, and the paint doesn't match.
He has something that samples the paint color, and tells him exactly how to mix it. Then polishing to blend it.

 

[CKN]

He said that removing the door, fender etc is a time waster to pad the bill.
Remove inner door panel, hammer and dolly the dent out as good as can be.
The body filler will be so thin and small that a magnet will still stick there after the repair.
Mask off the area around the damage so no over spray gets on it.
Mix matching paint, actually matching, not the color code. Paint the area, let dry, sand, repaint, let dry, polish.
The dent in my grandmother's best friend's suv was way worse than that.
He repaired it, and I cannot see the repair, and I've tried and tried. Many different lights, sun, angles, magnet to not stick, etc. He gave her a special cash deal of 300. But said that if she was a stranger who walked in off the street it would have been $900 out the door. I had him touch up some damage on my 1969 Swinger, caused by a flying table, used by the 50/50 ticket sales peopl, at a car show, in a sudden wind storm, that slammed into my mint car. He was there at the car show with his Duster, and said not to worry, he would fix it for me. I have tried to find his repairs since, can't see even 1 of the 6 spots. In my opinion he is a genius at dent and paint repair. He has told me probably 50 times over the 10 years we've been friends, never use the paint code from a car maker to mix paint. Yet some places will just use the paint code, and the paint doesn't match.
He has something that samples the paint color, and tells him exactly how to mix it. Then polishing to blend it.

That's sounds satisfactory to me-plus your personal recommendation.

 

[2heeldrive]

Can you ask for additional estimates? Similar thing happened to me, but I was on the receiving end of someone who backed into my car and did a lot of damage. I got three estimates, gave all three to the other driver (who did not want his insurance involved) and we agreed on the middle one. He sent me a check, and all was good.

 

[Silverado12]

Well if we have any questions about body repairs on 40-50 year old cars we’ll be sure to message you

Other than clear coat, there's no difference. The door doesn't need removed to fix a ding.

 

[Silverado12]

Nope. You are wrong. I got a slightly scuffed bumper on my wife's Highlander. On the corner. It's $900.00 all over town and isn't even metal. Rates at body shops have drastically gone up since the 80's. Labor hours inlcuded with body shop quotes these days are uniform-and generaous when it comes to labor. Won't be a huge differnce on materials.

BTW-every single body shop in my area uses the exact same software.
They will not mask the bumper off-it has to come off.

They are not going to bondo that door.

I can promise you they'll mud up that door and the customer wouldn't know the difference.

 

[JohnnyG]

No, she'x not getting TOOK. Anytime you throw paint into the picture, the price goes though the roof. Just be happy a pinstripe wasn't involved. I was quoted $800 just for the pinstripe alone!