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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A person trained only by watching YouTube videos, and equipped with $100 worth of Harbor Freight tools and some Bondo, could get that ready for paint in an afternoon.

No sympathy for that owner’s plight. That is a textbook example of an easy, fix-it-yourself repair. We are becoming a nation of highly educated people who can’t do sh*t.

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It’s not easy because it might require a panel replacement if the dent is unfixable.  That’s the problem so many people who buy niche brands like rivians, Lucids, etc. completely ignore - the parts supply chains for those extremely rare cars don’t exist, so when S breaks (which they inevitably will) a repair goes from a few thousand dollars to fix to a $40k+ fix.   This example in the link isn’t unique either. Other Rivian owners who got into a fender bender and needed the bumper now replaced also report getting quotes for over $30k to fix it.

It’s absolutely absurd. It’s the risk dumb buyers take though when they wanna be contrarian by buying a small niche EV that isn’t Tesla because hurr durr durr ElOn MuSK BAd!!!

Have fun dumping another 40 grand into your money pit for what should be a relatively minor fix because there are supply chains that exist for parts. [/quote]

It’s an aluminum sheet metal fender, not a nuclear reactor.  :roll:

Get a slide hammer, a drill, some sheet metal screws, drill some holes, put the screws in them, and use the slide hammer to pull that dent out. Then throw some body filler on it, trowel it to profile, let it cure, and grind/sand it to final profile.

This stuff ain’t rocket science. People used to know how to do this themselves.

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