this time, not my fault.

neighbor's friend [older lady] across the street backed into it leaving their driveway.

How much do you think to fix? I'm honestly thinking to take the inner panel off, and beat it out with a rubber mallet if there is enough opening on the inside, and use her insu check for the paint. Consider that I've mowed down a stop sign, gone through a barb-wire fence, hit the back/liftgate of a box truck, and am slowly converting it for racing. The truck itself is worth alot as my daily driver, but this damage is insignificant compared to what i've done to it myself and I'm frankly not too worried about it other than making it look a little better aesthetically.

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Dude.

That civic's plastic bumper owned your metal cab corner. I'm in shock after seeing the minimal damage on the honda.

Sorry to hear that man, bang her out best ya can.

 

Why do I suddenly Hear Morgan Freemans voice coming from a lizard ?????

 

because we have geico and she had allstate?

SXR, I thought the same thing. Good call on being a civic. The doorbell rang and dad yells "Somebody hit your truck!".....I'm thinking somebody hauled *** around the corner and lost it. I come downstairs and this is what I find, so i'm happy with it. Our neighbor's across the street do a church night every friday, one of the attendees was backing out and didn't see my truck in the darkness (can't fault her there).

a couple years ago, the same neighbors across the street had a car go halfway through their front yard...took the turn too fast and jumped the curb, rutted their yard, and took off before anybody could snag them.

Way I'm looking at it, stick 2x4 through inner cab, beat with hammer, throw some paint on it, and spend the rest of the check on some 15x8 OEM wheels ($100) to mount DOT slicks on (that a friend is giving me, $0), some weight-jacker spring spacers ($20), and maybe a locker ($500+). I'm sure a shop will quote 1500-2000 with less than 600 being paint, but I'll want to save some of it to live off of. The locker will be only if I can't get hooked up with the weight-jackers, which I should be able to.

 

Ouch..I would say get a paintless dent removal shop to fix it. Probably cost maybe $600.00 or $700.00 and it would look like new again. PDR guys are flat-out wizards and geniuses at what they do and they do it a heck of a lot cheaper than a body shop. You would still have cash left from the insurance too if they really do cut you a check that big. I don't know about Texas but here we have a shop here called Carsmetics that does great work. You are lucky the people that hit you were honest and came to let you know about it.

Jimmy

 

Had another neighbor come over, he said it would be 600-700 worth at a low buck body shop, probably closer to 1000 at a good shop.

It does look a lot worse in daylight. Door to cab corner.

He said to take a 2x4, round off the edges, beat out the body line, then go down from there, reshaping each section separately. Then peel off the loose paint, sand back to solid paint, and use some touch up brush-on paint and primer, and retouch the bad sections. Considering the shape of the whole truck, no sense in re-painting the panel, just touch up where needed.

 

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You can beat most of it out, but you're not going to get it even close without heat (and knowing how to use it.) The skin is stretched and heat is the only way to get that out of a dented panel. And that panel is severely FUBAR. Paintless repair won't get that much distortion & creasing out, btw.

Body shop wouldn't bother with trying to pound it out, they'd just weld a new panel in. Better results and less labor intensive.

I think you might find that you can't get behind the panel well enough to start to pound it out, btw. There's a lot of secondary panel inside there and it won't give you a clear shot. On my 96, I had a soft dent, no crease and I ended up popping it out with a shovel handle.

Sorry, I think you're at a cross roads on the truck. One direction is to get everything fixed properly. The other is to live with the battle scars and have it look like a beater.

 

Well the lady is a regular at our neighbor's so I want it to look like she paid for a repair, but I'm also broke. I figured a shop would do the patch and weld method if they couldn't pop it out. The truck is beyond beater status, I just want it to look decentish. I'm looking to at a minimum, make a couple hundred out of the deal. At most, get a locker put in.

I like what my neighbor said, beat it out as best I can, then use the touch up bottles to clean the paint spots, then sand, color blend, and clear over it until it semi-rematches. I don't want to rip her off, rather DIY the fix to look good and save money, and put the value to something I'd like to have.