Man these Rams are never the same when they get hit around the fenders and hood. A girl backed into my drivers side fender, After I got the truck back, I could fit 4 of my fingers all the way to the knuckles in between my fender and hood. Looks like your gap is off too, but only by little.

 

i hit a tree that jumped out in front of me with my fender and hood.... body shop put need fender and hood on it and my fender doesn't really fit right... but sure beats haven't a big smashed fender and hood lol

 

Unless of course the mechanic went as deep as he should, and replaced everything with factory or factory equivalent parts or better. Please allow me a bit of a rant:

That whole "diminished value" thing irritates the stuffing out of me. While it's true that there are cheapy chineezy body parts on the market and idiot wrench monkeys who'll do anything at all for a dollar, there are also lots of factory original and factory authorized parts, and guys who give a 5h17 about doing the repair properly. If a proficient mechanic goes deeply enough and carefully enough, the darned truck might be better after the repair than it was when it came from the factory.

I used to work with a guy who did body work as a sideline, and he was committed to maintaining fit and color tolerances that were half of factory limits. It wasn't at all uncommon for vehicles to leave his shop looking better than they did new.

I used to have a client whose body panel tooling came directly from and was authorized by Ford -- his were the only replacement parts that were stamped from original factory tooling, and where the factory fouled up he made corrections. For example, every 1958 Thunderbird that left the factory had a trim pucker to the left of the glove box button, where his dash pads didn't unless you specifically requested it. In order to get as wrong as factory you had to make special arrangements.

When my pristine 1969 IH Scout got clobbered in 1998 by a Denver Post truck I insisted that the repair be completely free of body filler and the shop pulled it off. Wreck? Sure, but find where the repair detracted from market value. I got my asking price when I sold it even with full disclosure. It would have been more reliable with a new radiator, but the guy very stupidly paid more because it was factory original... diminished value in reverse. He paid more to get less.

A truly good body shop is worth its weight in gold. A truly repaired previous wreck is a steal if the owner doesn't know what he's selling, and a factory original truck is a money pit if the new owner doesn't know what he's buying.

'Nuff sed. Have a fine day my friend.