My 5 week old Model 3 pearl white multicoat just got rear-ended by my neighbour while backing up his truck-bed camper truck. I had just finished washing it, too. Thankfully, it missed the headlights and fenders, but put multiple deep scratches lengthwise on the hood and wrecked the emblem (and vinyl I had atop the emblem from Abstract Ocean that I put on last week). Scratches go down to bare metal on the hood but it does not appear to be dented.
Since this is a pearl colour, I'm starting to understand why I might have been better off getting one of the other non-pearl colours. Pearl just doesn't match. My autobody friend informed me that he knows of only one autobody shop that even works on Teslas to begin with (due to parts availability being such crap), and the pearl means they're likely to repaint the entire front end, or at least, blend it.
Has anyone else had this experience? Should I expect them to repaint and blend, or will they just repaint the hood and call it a day?
Since this is a pearl colour, I'm starting to understand why I might have been better off getting one of the other non-pearl colours. Pearl just doesn't match. My autobody friend informed me that he knows of only one autobody shop that even works on Teslas to begin with (due to parts availability being such crap), and the pearl means they're likely to repaint the entire front end, or at least, blend it.
Has anyone else had this experience? Should I expect them to repaint and blend, or will they just repaint the hood and call it a day?