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]

Yeah, both body shops around here are thieves, I'll give you that. One of them is REALLY bad about that. My dad is friends with the other guy so when I took the car to both body shops about the small dent in the other fender they both said $350. The second guy, my dad's friend, actually charged $380 but since I already had a quote for $350 and he knows me he said he'd come down. He does really good work, but he overcharges. He's a very egotistical man... He kept my car a week and a half to let the paint dry. His work is perfect as long as it's repair work. I probably wouldn't take my car to him and have him do something custom. Anyway, when I got the quote for the small dent, he said he would fix pretty much any rear quarter panel dent like that for the same price since he had to sand the whole thing down and repaint it anyway.

Anyway, that's off topic and I'm threadjacking. I just posted that picture as a comparison to bcelica555's damage so show that his is worse and support NgoFcukinWay's estimate of $1,000-1,300 since I had to have quite a bit more done.

This post has been edited by richee3: Nov 30, 2008 - 12:34 PM