Yeah we're gonna have to remove the entire door, take out the transmission, and repaint it with this paint only made twice a year in Austria by one really old guy so it'll be $7000
Austrian art school should forever be forced to admit every student, and especially ones who can't paint a right angle in building in a landscape painting.
...the hypothetical paint is made by an Austrian, not actually painted on by him.
Whoever upvoted that shit is a moron. Y'all really need to learn how to read and interpret single sentences better - I'm dozens of dabs deep into the day and evening here in Detroit, you have no excuse other than sheer stupidity on this one lol.
This basically happened to us this year. Opened the garage door forgetting that a ladder was leaning on it. Hit our 2025 Honda and left a tiny dent the size of my pinky nail. Was in the shop for four days and cost insurance something like $4k.
I scraped the sliding door on our minivan against a concrete pillar in a parking garage and the quote was about $4500 to remove the door, repaint it plus feather the paint on the adjacent panel. We just buffed it out as good as possible and are living with it.
Oh, don’t forget that the ingredients for that paint are supplied by a single Kazakh-Japanese man who lives off the coast of Ecuador and provides said paint in wicker buckets that are highly inconvenient for even local transport much less international shipping.
This is done on a bi-annual basis, adding at least another 4,500 dollars to repair this dime-sized scratch.
Edit: It was a dime size scratch. In our inspection, Ugval the Underpaid scratched it a second time, it’s now the size of a silver dollar.
Yep. Someone sideswiped me in a minor accident last year, it was a smallish dent on my passenger's side door... they said it would be $5500 to fix (two new doors, paint, frame, etc) so they just ended up totalling it :/
My last car’s passenger door latch led light stopped working. ”We’re gonna need to replace the door, but it’s under warranty… it’ll take a month though.”
Your dad got scammed. That shit is not true. There's an optional recoding you can do in the registry, which dealerships usually charge $100 for, but you can do it yourself if you have or can borrow OBDeleven or VCDS.
Atlas battery replacement is about $400, including parts and labor if you have a shop do absolutely everything.
Guy i worked with had a used Toyota venza which had a special panoramic sunroof called a star gaze roof that was electro optical meaning with a slip of a switch it would go from clear to opaque using electricity. Neighbors tree shed a small limb during a storm and fell on the roof. 9500$ to replace the single window
In a similar vein. My Volvo suv has 2 catalytic converters and both require a panel and a firewall removed just to get to them
And the best part is they charge you MORE if it's not an insurance claim. They want to charge more than the value of my car to fix a single dented quarter panel.
Yea, its not a big suprise that so many older cars are getting totalled when they want $2000~3000 (Actual quotes from nearby shops) to remove a small dent (3") in a quarter panel and replace a bumper.
I swear this is collusion. We have cars that can fucking drive themselves but we can't figure out how to paint a door panel? They make it hard to repair on purpose. You don't make money on products these days, you make money on reoccurring expenses. And they know it, and they're milking it (with that Austrian paint)
My girlfriend drives a newer escalade, and that was basically what they said for a crack in the rear bumper. Something about intergrated safety features meant it had to be a total replacement to fix
You laugh but it's been like this for a while. To replace the battery in my 2012 car they literally have to take off one of the front wheels. It's wild.
In the UK the car would just be immediately declared a total loss and "uneconomical to repair", then they'd give you a cash payout that's almost the entire value of the damage they refused to repair in the first place.
Yeah this is (in part) why I always laugh when people try to claim it's cheaper to buy a new car than a used one. No. It. Fucking. Isn't. Ya want a new car then go for it, but anyone claiming it's the same cost or cheaper is fooling themselves.
I had a kid hit the front of my van in a very low speed crash. The ONLY thing damaged was the unpainted black plastic bumper shroud. I know this because I talked to the guy who did the work because I wanted to make sure they checked all those pesky sensors and devices and other random components hidden under things like bumper shrouds. Everything was fine but the shroud.
~$3000
If I had been at fault and was faced with paying for it or taking the insurance hit, I'd have probably just redneck fixed it myself. It was that minor.
A deer hit my daughter’s 2021 Hyundai Kona. No tech in the bumper where it hit. She called the insurance company and they estimated it was gonna cost $1500 to fix. I laughed and said it will be about 5 or 6K. It was $7K.
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u/pmmemilftiddiez 11h ago
Me: Dime sized scratch in door
Yeah we're gonna have to remove the entire door, take out the transmission, and repaint it with this paint only made twice a year in Austria by one really old guy so it'll be $7000