Back fender repair question Options

[bcelica555]

Last night I backed into these wooden steps pretty bad and messed up my back fender




I was just wondering if the whole fender needs replaced since its seems to be connected to the roof. My cars getting alot of miles on it and im thinking about not getting it fixed and I'm just wondering my options for tring to make it look a little bit better. What all different ways would a garage try to fix it for me

[richee3]

I just hit a deer a few months back and the rear quarter panel was completely screwed on my car. My dad is good friends with our body guy, and what he told us is insurance will figure it in as a whole quarter panel replacement, but he wasn't going to bother with that on an 11 year old car. So when the claims adjuster came to my house, sure enough he figured it in as a full quarter panel replacement. Our body guy did exactly what everyone else said where he just pulled it out with a stud gun and fulled the rest in. That left us with a bunch of money left over and we got the other side repaired where some douche backed into me and drove away

Anyway, your damage looks a lot worse than mine. The body shop may not want to just pull that out. The back of the fender above the tail light looks like a trickey place to fix. I'm sure a good body guy could do it though. Good luck with getting everything fixed.