So some f*ckface pulled a hit and run on my RSX last night and left several large dents in my rear quarter panel. I've been looking at the position and size of the dents to try to figure out how/what happened. The car was parallel parked on a street. I live in San Francisco and don't have a garage, but will be getting one in a couple of months when I move to another apartment. I won't be repairing this until I have a garage for the car.

For the body experts out there, can these dents be pulled out? What kind of process will be needed to repair this and around how much? Thanks in advance for the help.

 

Kinda looks like the bumper from a pick up truck backed into it, somebody turning around in the street or possibly a neighbor across the street backed out of his place a little too far not paying attention. Hopefully that doesn't take much to fix.

 

whoever you take it too will 1: either sugest quarter replacement or 2: use a nail gun witch spot welds brass nails to the bare metal on the car. and then pull on the nails with a duck billed vise grip and gently tap on the crown of the dents/ use a slide hammer. and follow with mud and glaze to finish it off. then primer/sanding/base clear. sounds alot scaryer than it really is.

 

yeah it will need stud gunned. The bigger portion should pop out but it will still need some filler work followed by primer and paint. so yeah what filthy94 said. But whoever you take it to just say stud it and fill it, save yourself the money. Unless you cant think about the thought of mud in your car. Goodluck

 

by the type of damage and the residue they left on your car, you might be able to find who done it. Also your paint may be on their car.

 

wrote an est. at work (work for a body shop)

$2044.14

thats what we would charge an ins company.

that in cludes a new quarter panel blending all surrounding pannels and remove/ install of all things nessasary to do so.

you gotta figure the quarter panel is $560 alone.

 

If it were my car I would want the rear quarter panel replaced, its pretty bent and will be streched all over the place and end up with **** loads of filler in it.

 

i was within $100! haha. CCC Pathways?

yeah there's no way i'd ever write that car to be pulled and filled. by the time you get that pulled and hammered back into a rough shape the metal will be so stretched and weak that even if you fill it and paint it just fine, it could pop and crack any time ruining the repair. forget the BS hack work, just get the quarter replaced.

 

i couldnt agree more man.

 

thanks man.

a lot of people would recommend a pull and fill job with a dent like that, but every time i hear something like that i just laugh because it means the person has had no actual experience in the modern collision repair industry. whoever recommends to pull and fill it is, or has been taught by, and old-head body guy who only deals with cars older than 1980-ish. with modern high strength body panel steel (very thin), there's no way in hell you can hammer, heat, shrink, or stretch a dent like that back into shape and still have a solid enough base to apply filler to. we're well past the era of fixing everything and slopping filler into holes and filing it smooth. whether we like it or not, we're in the era of replacing everything. hell, if some people saw the kinds of things that insurance companies write to replace instead of repair they'd have a heart attack! fact of the matter is it's easier, cheaper, and longer lasting to just replace the panels.

 

^Agreed, as well as the fact that you can glue that **** in anyway.

 

yes sir

 

Thanks for all the responses, everyone...definitely a big help getting all these opinions. I'm not planning on keeping this car long term, so I might just try to have a body shop pull out the big soft dents to make it look slightly better and then just sell the car as is.