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> I saw a guy dent a rear quarter panel and the quote was $45k.

The expected repair cost was ~1/10 that: https://www.thedrive.com/news/41000-rivian-fender-bender-act...



4100 still sounds insane amount of money. An amount that sounds like something somewhere or everywhere has gone wrong.


More a story about the body shop / car insurance interplay and blue collar skilled service industry / Private Equity dynamics.

My beat up truck got quoted 6k to replace a dent caused by a fender bender.


How much was the hotel room to go to Florida? He had to drive to a dent YouTuber.




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