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BTH: You can't be serious, can you? The insurance company allotted 13 hours for mechanical and paint labor for a PROFESSIONAL to do the job, along with about $300 in parts and materials. Then there's you with little or no bodywork experience, and prob'ly even less time behind a paint gun, and even asking what's involved in replacing the door. When all is said and done, what do you think the job is going to look like when YOU get through with it? How durable do you think it's going to be? And when the whole thing goes south in a year or so (maybe even a few months) and you've spent the remainder of the insurance money on other things, what's the car going to look like...and who's going to ever buy it from you with backyard bodywork? Don't you think that will call into the question the rest of the integrity of the car? Now, don't get me wrong. I'm all for DIY repairs on these lovely beasts, both as a cost saving measure, but also as a means to get to know the car better. Heaven knows, I've spent hours behind the wrench, but body and paint work is not one of those 'learn as you go' deals. This is one area of auto repairs that is most assuredly left to the professionals. Take the money, get the car fixed correctly, and rest easy in the satisfaction that you have some recourse against the body shop if, at some point, the job doesn't meet with your approval. If you botch it up, not only have you wasted your dough, but you only have yourself to blame. And by the way, I don't know of ANY shop that will hang your used door, only do a "little" prepwork, and not get to put a final paint on it. Too much liability if it doesn't turn out correctly. Good luck.
Brad
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