rustangkiller

i had a run flat collaps on me on the high way and the tire fliped up and took a small peice of my fender with it. i got the pice and glued it back on and did a little touch up and now it just looks like a deep black crack about 7 inches long form the most right corner of the quarter panel to the rear about 7". to it to a small shop and they told me 1500 dollars. is it me or was this guy trying to rip me off. i mean some people get there whole cars painted for that. he was going to blend it in. would a new quarter panel be a cheaper option than repair. its bad enough the tires were 300 a piece. im a new vette owner and im still happy with the car. just finding out how much it realy cost to own one.

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Justardnck

I don't like blended paint work... I would keep looking for another shop.

C5VetteLS1

Ditto: At $1500.00 they should replace and repaint the entire fender. That would also make for a perfect repair. Blending paints can turn out damn good, but always less than perfect. I don't even understand his logic in wanting to do a blend on such a small panel. It would actually be easier to just shoot the whole thing.

SLOWRIDE

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runner140*

For that price, they should fix the fender and paint the entire fender. Thats my .02.

GKK

$1500 sounds about right to me depending on the labor rate. The body shop has to reinforce the crack usually from behind the panel before starting any body work such as filler, primer etc...

After the body work, the painter then needs to color match the paint and Blend the paint from the damaged area onto any adjacent panels such as the front of the wheel well, rear bumper cover and possibly the top section of the quarter panels. Each of these panels have to be prepped for paint, clear coated, color sanded, buffed and polished for a correct repair.

A lot of body shops will just repair the panel, order the paint (which never matches correctly without some final tinting), paint and clearcoat the panel. This ends up being a bad repair because you can clearly see that the quarter panel color does not match the other panels around it (that's why you blend the paint as you're spraying it). That's why these shops charge less.

Ask the shop how many hours this repair will require times the labor rate plus materials, tax and you can see how it adds up.

Hope this helps.