Car Trouble

About three weeks ago we were parked at Amy Jo’s house and the land lord (Rick) backed into our drivers door. Leaving a few dents but Thomas said that he would be able to pull them out himself so he went to YouTube to learn how. It said “Body Shop Secrets”. In order to remove dents they use dry ice or compressed air. So we gave it a try….. It did work a little but did not remove the dents as much as we needed. So we decided that we would need to take it to a body shop to have the dents taken out. Rick suspected that it would cost about $600 to get it taken care of and he wanted to just pay out of pocket and not claim it to his insurance.

Thomas went to 3 different body shop places and was told that they would need to change to whole outside panel because the metal was to stretched to put it back the way it was. It would be between 1400-1700 dollars. WOW!!

Rick reported it to Allstate, so we went there to get it assessed. They agent looked at the different options and decided it would be cheaper to put a refurbished door on instead of just the new paneling. So that is what we did but Thomas did not want someone else’s used door when ours worked just fine. The insurance also paid for us to have a rental car while our car was getting fixed.
We needed our car to go a family reunion in Logan so we did not take our car in until the 7th of July and it took 3 days to change out the door. It was a lot of fun to drive a brand new Hyundai Sonata with less than 500 miles on it. It even had XM radio.
Friday morning they called and said that my car was ready. I did not want to give the rental back but I was excited to have my car fixed. We took the rental back and they gave us a ride to the body shop but they were all out to lunch. So….they told me I could keep the rental car and to come back in a hour and they would give me another ride over to the body shop, but it had to be a different car because they just rented the Sonata to another person. Seth and I got to drive a 2008 PT cruiser. It was not as nice but still fun.

So we get our car back and the door looks good but it does not sound good. When I open the door the latch mechanism is a lot louder than the others. Also the window still pops when to roll it up. So Tuesday after Thomas got off work we went back and they looked at it and fixed the problem.
We take it home and the window works perfectly but the two drives side doors sound worse. So we took it to them again and they adjusted the doors again. This time we tested them out while we are still there and they sounded so much better and did not need extra force to shut. We think that our problems are all fixed. We hope that this last time will be the last time that we have to see their ugly mugs.
Well today the back drives side door will not open at all. We pushed form the inside, pulled from the outside. Nothing! Back to the Body Shop L I will let you know if anything else needs to be adjusted. What a Headache.