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Originally Posted by kev60625

Thanks for the input guys, seriously appreciated!

So I went to 7 shops today, Thanks to living in Chicago all were within 5 minutes of each other, ha.

3 of the shops said it needed a fender replacement..One wants $868, but they provide the fender at $240 cost. The second wants $150 to paint the new fender I provide, with no color blending. The third wants $600, with me providing the fender.

The 4 shops that would fix the current fender want $400, $490, $500, and $650. the highest priced one is a very good detail shop that I believe would do a great job, not so sure about the other 3 body shops (the shops all look very busy/cluttered/dirty.

One thing almost all of the shops mentioned was how hard WRB would be to paint, they all made it seem like it was a very exotic, expensive, and rare color that is hard to paint. And also how removing and installing the fender would be hard..I watched a DIY on youtube today and it's very straightfoward/easy, bumper doesn't need to be removed either. One of the shop's estimator tried telling me the bumper needed to be removed, along with some bolts that don't exist where he pointed at. Once I disagreed he got really offended and said I didn't know what I was talking about lol

No need to replace that at all it is a relatively straight forward repair. I would just get it fixed.
As far as matching the blue goes that is also not as bad as they may make it sound. The shop that fixed mine matched the orange first shot and if they do that they can do the WRB. Just be glad you don't have one of the whites since those do seem to be hellish to match.