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Like was already mentioned, to be done properly, the front fender and rear fender need to be part of the blending process. What hasn't been mentioned is that due to the fact that those dents, apart from being pretty severe, extend very close to the cut lines, the only way to get this done perfectly is to actually remove the doors so that the body shop can reshape the metal (and therefore have to use a minimal amount of bondo, if any at all). I once had similar damage on one of my cars. We had to remove the damaged door in order to straighten it properly. Unhanging and fixing one door perfectly (about 6-8 hours), plus paint, will run ya at least $600. You've got two doors to do plus blending on the front and rear fenders. If you want the job done perfectly, I'd budget $2,000 just to be on the safe side (because, trust me, while you're in there, you might find other stuff that needs fixing. For example, you might want the jambs on the doors repainted, you might want some other body imperfections repainted, you might want all the door fasteners on the doors replaced with new ones, and you might want new fasteners for your weather-stripping and maybe even new weather stripping). Not trying to scare you, I'm just speaking from experience. It's like with all cars - send it in for one thing and you've got a little laundry list going before you know it.
Oh, and one more thing, once the doors and fenders are repainted, you're going to want to have the entire car professionally polished, etc. so that you can get rid of clear-coat imperfections and make the transitions from new clear to old as seamless as possible. If you didn't do so, it would look pretty daft as you'd have perfect new paint which will stick out like a sore thumb compared to the older finish on the original paint (being that this is a Canadian car I can assure you that the original clear coat has had a pretty hard life and has lost its luster quite a bit). Budget at least $350 for this. See? It adds up!
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Last edited by Bayerische E53; 12-06-2012 at 12:42 AM.
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