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The Monday that took 3 days to fix because of a 2 inch dent
Last Tuesday a customer brought in a 2018 Camry with a tiny door ding, but the quarter panel behind it had serious rot hiding underneath. I quoted $900 for the repair, but after I pulled the trim the whole inner structure was mush. Ended up fabricating a patch panel from scratch, took me 14 hours over 3 days instead of the 6 I planned. The customer kept calling asking why it wasn't done, and I had to explain rust doesnt care about your schedule. Has anyone else had a small job snowball into a full restoration project like that?
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anthony8831mo ago
Back in 2019 I had a guy drop off a Tacoma for what he called a scratch on the bed. Pulled the bed liner and found a hole the size of a softball where water had been sitting for years. I told him it would be two days, ended up being a week because every time I cut back the rust it went further. His wife called me four times asking if I was on vacation or something. By the end I had replaced half the bed side and he acted surprised when the bill was triple the quote. Rust is like that one friend who says he's just staying for one beer and then you find him asleep on your couch at 2am.
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