(Un)Pleasant Surprise This Morning

[DubbuD]

So apparently I just can't have anything without someone beating it up, regardless of the care I take. Looks like someone fell on it with an elbow or struck it with a knee. Probably the feckin kids in the neighbourhood last night playing spotlight or something. Pictures taken at work, as that's where I noticed it. Gonna roll through the camera footage at work anyway just to see, but I'm doubtful it happened there:









Anyone have any thoughts on the cost of repair? I have a $500 deductible on my comprehensive, more or less? I'm thinkin it'll come in right around the $500 - $800 mark to replace the fender with OEM and have it painted. As you can see,the paint is cracked on the rolled edge under the fender, so having the dent popped out is unfortunately not an option....

This day is gonna be great........

 

[Mark_888]

Looks to me like some other vehicle bumped it. Hard to believe that a kid hitting it with their knee caused that, unless they deliberately kicked it hard with the heel of their shoe.

 

[1FstYota]

Yea, normal paintless repair should be able to fix that, I'd say probably 100 to 200. Still sucks that your have to light money on fire cause of someone else's stupidity.

 

[Seejay]

Paintless, no, or rather I doubt it. I had the body shop fix a much smaller dent in my fender in nearly the same spot when I had them repair the bumper from the cardboard box encounter. He told me that it is impossible to get the crease done right.

 

[DubbuD]

Yeah, it won't be paintless for 2 reasons (I wish it were, believe me, hate replacing and repairing sheet metal on cars, never holds up the same after):

1. the rolled section of the fender in the fender well has the paint all cracked and lifting away from the impact
2. as mentioned above, the creases are near impossible to get right once they've been damaged

Went to the body shop for a quote over lunch anyway, so I'll soon know how much it'll cost, then it's either off or not off to the insurance company. He put in for a replacement fender, primer, 2 stage metallic paint and the labour of course.

If the insurance goes for OEM parts like I want, I'd say it'll end up being around $1000 - $1200 now that I think about it more. Aftermarket you might get away with under $1000. But honestly, aftermarket for this car is so poor that they probably won't be able to find it anyway. Oh well, $500 deductible coming out of savings it is I suppose.

On the part of it being a vehicle hitting it, I can't see it. It was parked in my driveway from 5 PM yesterday to 7:45 AM this morning, and review of the security footage at work shows it was there when I arrived this morning. There are also no paint transfer or scuff marks, just a clean dent. It's bizarre to say the least.

 

[1FstYota]

I'm having my paintless guy work his magic soon on my fender. I see him work his magic on worse than that.

 

[DubbuD]

I spose I'll take it up to dent wizard and see what they say, but the paint is cracked, usually they say they can't do it if the paint is cracked.

 

[tuckerdog1]

Someone that would do that & walk away is pure pond scum. Sorry for you.

Tuckerdog1

 

[1FstYota]

I spose I'll take it up to dent wizard and see what they say, but the paint is cracked, usually they say they can't do it if the paint is cracked.

Oh I see what your saying then yes your paint show might be the best solution.

 

[sidewinder1]

definitely go pdr if at all possible...may run into more headaches after replacing fender and blending paint job.

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