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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: RVA
Age: 44
Posts: 327
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Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: RVA
Age: 44
Posts: 327
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I see in your sig you have 15 trd pro inferno red, I love those trucks. I would advise against settling for a door skin, the reason I say that is because its a half ass way to fix a door. The repair consists of removing the door skin, panel bonding, seam sealer and corrosion protection all of which are OEM standard right now. The actual job of replacing a door skin is not hard, Ive done many of them, but to do it right and match the OEM specs is time consuming. In the collision repair world time is money, the less time it takes to repair something the more money the tech makes. A lot of corners are cut when replacing a door skin, the corrosion protection and seam sealer being the two that are probably fudged the most, chances are it wont be nothing like OEM. When it comes to painting the inside of a door skin repair I can guarantee the painter will cut a corner, you know the weather rubber that goes all the way around the door shell, perfect place to cut a tape line and I bet you'll be able to see a difference in paint from one side of the rubber to the other. Next you have the outside of the skin. The tech is going to use a hammer and dolly to install the skin to the shell. That being said it can go one of two ways, if a great tech does it he wont have to put bondo around the edge where the hammer hit the skin, if a fair tech does it there could possibly be more bondo around the edge than the initial dent would have require to fix originally.
My suggestion to you, with out seeing pictures:
First ask for a new door, explain that you want the vehicle to remain in top condition, it is a trd pro.
Second ask them to straighten the dent. Based on the fact that the guy rode away from the scene Id say its repairable. If the intrusion beam is bent, that will require a replacement no questions asked, and the guy probably would've got knocked out on impact.
Sorry for the long text but Im not a fan of replacing door skins. Ive seen them hacked up all to many times.
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2005 galactic gray, level8 mk6, 285 70r 17, 1" body lift, ome 885, 895, 5100 on all corners, LR uca, 4xinnovation sliders
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