[Vincenttam]

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

Them saying its hard to remove a fender is just asking for more pay per hour. I got rear ended about two weeks ago and body shops were charging me 900$ for a new painted bumper. Basically, 200$ for the bumper, 350$ for paint, and 350$ for labor. I ended up finding someone local with a color matched bumper they didn't want and snatched it off for 220$ and installed it in 20 mins lol. Wheres my 680$ XD