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Bad dent quarter panel
- Thread starter dropgems
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. No paint damage. What do you guys think and recommend?
Sorry to see. Almost looks like someone leaned against it or sat there and/or applied some weight or blunt force, deforming the pressed metal.
Getting in there from behind the sheet metal is tricky but doable so PDR can make it look significantly better, perhaps almost ideal. It will be a royal PITA for the PDR shop, even if they are very good at what they do. $$$
Traditional repair will involve the typical body work, bondo, repaint. $$$$
By the book Tesla repair will involve cutting out most of the quarter panel and rewelding a new one in. $$$$$$
Getting in there from behind the sheet metal is tricky but doable so PDR can make it look significantly better, perhaps almost ideal. It will be a royal PITA for the PDR shop, even if they are very good at what they do. $$$
Traditional repair will involve the typical body work, bondo, repaint. $$$$
By the book Tesla repair will involve cutting out most of the quarter panel and rewelding a new one in. $$$$$$
So I had no clue what happened to it exactly and have had my “sentry mode off at home turned on” lately in my parking garage. But I do recall now a sentry event that happened about a month ago from the guy who parks next to me in the garage. He walked in between my car and this pillar to get to his car because it’s a tight parking garage. He’s an old hunchback/handicap guy (so I can’t go after him) and he tripped over my charging cord and like squeezed through the space and banged on my car so that must’ve been what did it. When I saw, I didn’t even think it could’ve damaged the car so I didn’t even look but that must’ve been it...
I will try PDR and hopefully that’ll take care of it.
I will try PDR and hopefully that’ll take care of it.
Update: Got a quote today. Guy said it’s tricky but he could prob get it to 90-95%. 4-5 hour job, $450. Gonna go with that prob.
Okay... this was his response.
“Thanks for your patience.
So the 2 issues that jump out at me are 1 the location is an area that I can't get a tool behind the dent to push the metal back into shape.
The other is that this dent pushed down on the body line, basically pushing out the lower part of the panel below the body line.
This is something that I can repair with a glue pulling process, but I will probably end up chasing metal back and forth above and below the body line.
I would need about 4-5 hours with it and it would run $450. This would be anywhere from 90-95% better, meaning you would not know it was there, unless you knew where to look and you might see some slight waves from the stretched metal.
Otherwise it's a body shop repair, and would most likely be an insurance claim as it could easily be a couple grand to repair.”
oreobbq
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Ouch. I don't see how anyone can lean on it hard enough to cause that. Looks like maybe someone dropped an elbow on it on purpose.
I’ll mention the subwoofer deal. How bad is him drilling a hole? Is it just a faster that way?
Yea I thought the same thing but I specifically remember this old guy who parks next to me on a sentry video that tripped over my charge cable and like used my rear quarter panel to break his fall. Otherwise no clue how it happened. No paint damage and haven’t driven the car much at all. It’s weird.
Yea it’s faster but a good pdr specialist would never resort to that option ever. They would drill a hole in the door jam and gain easy access to the dent from there. Then they plug the hole with a plastic plug and will tell you nobody will know and it looks OEM... but you’ll know every time you look at it.
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Right ok. Yea I’ve had somebody due the door drilling before for me. Honestly I don’t really care that much but I’ll suggest the subwoofer route. I’m in south Jersey atm so prob don’t have many options.
Dayum! Wow! Just Wow!!! I’ve got to say…..I’ve had PDR do incredible work on my P3D+. But that’s AMAZING work! Incredible. I would have never thought it would turn out that well. Sharpness of the crease and that kind of work is well done. Usually on a crease those guys shake their heads and give up but that’s just shockingly good. Well done.
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Yea he said he surprised himself with this one as he was having some real trouble with it in the beginning. Dude came thru tho.
