yesterday was bad day...

jasonh_86 said:

Well Mity.. not to sound like a jerk or anything, but after working in a body shop for over a year, I saw a LOT of mustangs come in for damage similar to this.

They would NOT put bondo/body filler on it or beat it out.. They would just cut the quarter panel and pillar off and put/weld a new one back on and replace everything.. If it was something like that and the customer was paying, then they gave them the option.. but if insurance was paying, then we would replace instead of repair.

I wouldn't let anyone put body filler in a body line or try to beat it out, it will never be the same.

The body shop I worked at wasn't a little shop either, it was the biggest in the county and the owner had some of the nicest restored vehicles in Arkansas.. he even had a guy bring a '67 sting-ray split-rear-window 'Vette in for a complete restoration and it looked brand new when we got done..

But the point of this post.. don't settle for body filler or a repair.. make those bastards replace the intire quarter panel from the door sill up to the pillar (where it meets the roof) and then back down to where the quarter panel meets the inner trunk area. Pretty much an entire new quarter panel and pillar along the body seams to eliminate nasty body filler or beating it out (which will require bondo/body filler as well).. new panel, same body seams, new parts.. you can usually never even tell.. and that way you won't have to worry about rust or body filler messing up or paint cracking off if it was done right

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mity2 said:

i got another estimate. this one came up little more then othe estimate at $1907

But only thing that i can see that is different on this one is that they added some laber and parts fee for corrosion protection, which was missing from other estimate. U would thing if they repair metal, corrosion protection would be standard, but i guess not.

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