That sucks man, I would NOT be happy if I were in you're situation, at the least I would not be recommending that body shop to anyone. Good luck in getting everything taken care of.
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a what??
wtf... am I retarded? What's a sonic pole?
wtf... am I retarded? What's a sonic pole?
one of these thingswtf... am I retarded? What's a sonic pole?
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so i'm still a little pissed and hot-headed. but not AS bad. turns out the guy had some family problems to deal with this weekend (so ehh whatever) and called me this morning saying i'll have it tomorrow - no questions asked. but anywho, i made a visit to check progress about 30 minutes ago and sure enough, he's just about finished (and is painting/clearcoating as i am typing this):
-one thing that took him a while was the replacement fender, a.k.a. no fender flare holes... so he cut out my old fender and made a template and cut out the new holes. he's gotta spray another coat of paint on it, and then clear it.
-hood: did the paint matching (had a small ding right in the damn corner that took off the paint so it had to be done) and clear-coat matching and let me tell you. with the screwy way the orange peel on our trucks is, he did a good job matching that up. he asked me if i wanted it completely smooth, but i'd really rather not have one part of my truck completely perfect and have the rest stock orange peel (dumb, i know.... but oh well)
-headlight: perfect alignment
-grille: i'm most happy about the grille of all things. the replacement grille was the straight black, unpainted OEM grille... well, he thought i would like a little change from the charcoal-ish brown-ish whatever the heck color the thing was... so now it's ALMOST this color:
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^^^imagine that with a clearcoat and maybe a little lighter and thats what you'll get.
-perfect gaps for fender/hood/headlight/insert piece that goes under headlight
all-in-all... im not too pleased with this experience. i learned my lesson (which has, as of tomorrow, turned out to be a 1 month, 2 week ordeal over something that should have taken 3 days to fix, or less). in fact, i learned my lesson 3 or 4 weeks ago... and that's just kickin a man when he's down. i'm not gonna go with this bodyshop again, i've already switched policies (now proud state farm policy holder with a only a $500.00 deductible, mind you) and i've become over-anal about backing out of sonic drive-in's... and yes i still go to them
pic's to come tomorrow
p.s. *sigh* too bad its going back in the dealership this week or next for the rear TSB AND the muffler shop for a cheaply made, flaking, rusted powdercoated left exhaust tip (but thats another story)
so i'm still a little pissed and hot-headed. but not AS bad. turns out the guy had some family problems to deal with this weekend (so ehh whatever) and called me this morning saying i'll have it tomorrow - no questions asked. but anywho, i made a visit to check progress about 30 minutes ago and sure enough, he's just about finished (and is painting/clearcoating as i am typing this):
-one thing that took him a while was the replacement fender, a.k.a. no fender flare holes... so he cut out my old fender and made a template and cut out the new holes. he's gotta spray another coat of paint on it, and then clear it.
-hood: did the paint matching (had a small ding right in the damn corner that took off the paint so it had to be done) and clear-coat matching and let me tell you. with the screwy way the orange peel on our trucks is, he did a good job matching that up. he asked me if i wanted it completely smooth, but i'd really rather not have one part of my truck completely perfect and have the rest stock orange peel (dumb, i know.... but oh well)
-headlight: perfect alignment
-grille: i'm most happy about the grille of all things. the replacement grille was the straight black, unpainted OEM grille... well, he thought i would like a little change from the charcoal-ish brown-ish whatever the heck color the thing was... so now it's ALMOST this color:
^^^imagine that with a clearcoat and maybe a little lighter and thats what you'll get.
-perfect gaps for fender/hood/headlight/insert piece that goes under headlight
all-in-all... im not too pleased with this experience. i learned my lesson (which has, as of tomorrow, turned out to be a 1 month, 2 week ordeal over something that should have taken 3 days to fix, or less). in fact, i learned my lesson 3 or 4 weeks ago... and that's just kickin a man when he's down. i'm not gonna go with this bodyshop again, i've already switched policies (now proud state farm policy holder with a only a $500.00 deductible, mind you) and i've become over-anal about backing out of sonic drive-in's... and yes i still go to them
pic's to come tomorrow
p.s. *sigh* too bad its going back in the dealership this week or next for the rear TSB AND the muffler shop for a cheaply made, flaking, rusted powdercoated left exhaust tip (but thats another story
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