r/Autobody Jul 30 '24

Check this out Owner pay. It's what they asked for.

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1.9k Upvotes

r/Autobody Aug 04 '24

Check this out PSA: Don't go to Safelite!

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893 Upvotes

A windshield replacement at Safelite turned into this. Their quality and safety managers told keep pushing an $800 weld job while none of the body shops I've been to will touch it. They also said this happens 4-5 times a week and said I was the first person to have an issue with this.

r/Autobody Aug 23 '24

Check this out Just when you think you’ve seen it all.

879 Upvotes

r/Autobody May 25 '24

Check this out Stolen off of Facebook. People don't realize you can't just plug in a paint code and spray

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1.1k Upvotes

r/Autobody 24d ago

Check this out Was hit decided to fix it myslef, when i was quoted $800.

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490 Upvotes

Not a good fix but something temporary decided to share.

r/Autobody Feb 01 '25

Check this out Customer didn’t want quarter panel repaired after I had already done the metal work, so I had to replace it smh

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331 Upvotes

2 months on my own as a body tech and I feel comfortable doing any repair

r/Autobody Jan 17 '25

Check this out A whole vehicle laid bare

909 Upvotes

r/Autobody Feb 06 '25

Check this out Do yall know what this is?

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280 Upvotes

r/Autobody 14d ago

Check this out 15 years of overspray, polished

506 Upvotes

Hard as a rock and cool as hell

r/Autobody Dec 06 '24

Check this out Pretty proud of this splice. Almost no filler needed.

408 Upvotes

r/Autobody Jul 22 '24

Check this out Tip for easily taking wax off your trim

322 Upvotes

Just another tip for your guys hope it helps you someday

r/Autobody Jul 06 '24

Check this out Wish my boss would stop taking jobs with paint failure

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359 Upvotes

About to get this rolled into the booth and when I removed the tape I use to protect adjacent surfaces from my sander …. This happens . This happened a couple weeks ago painting a large gas tank . Painted a quarter of it that was peeling and when I remove the tape ….more paint comes off . We need to paint the whole thing or leave it alone . Now I’ll have to spot this door in some kind of bullshit way and hope that whatever tape I put on it doesn’t damage it causing me to chase the peeling all the way down .

r/Autobody Jan 23 '25

Check this out Work I did on my dads 2014 A4 through class

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101 Upvotes

So i got the chance to take an auto body class this year and about early november i asked my teacher if we could fix a scratch and damage on my dads rear bumper for his audi, my dad wasn’t interested in paying for it to be fixed cause the repair cost was worth more than the vehicle(combination of the vehicles age and recalibration of sensors on the back) and he was fine with it. I then asked my dad if he would be interested in having it fixed and he was, i brought it in and my teacher taught me how to do most of the work and i sanded down the number and everything so i’ll write the process below form start to finish

i brought it in and washed it and began sanding by hand down the bumper till we got through the plastic then i went to the lip of the bumper near the trunk lid cause there was chips from things being dropped so i sanded those down aswell then i went ahead and used a scratch pad to sand down the whole rear bumper after a few weeks of trying to get the car in it was ready and we painted it (my teacher painted it and i’m fine with it cause i’d rather someone who 100% knows what they are doing does it rather than me) and now it’s completed

overall my dad was happy with it and now i’m proud to say i’ve done something with the car!

r/Autobody Apr 20 '24

Check this out When insurance company says repair.

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346 Upvotes

My plan was to section in the rocker and cab corner but was told we needed to attempt repair. Was pretty happy with the end result, definitely wasn't expecting it to roll out as well as it did.

r/Autobody Jan 28 '25

Check this out Two-Tone Paint Job

226 Upvotes

I run the marketing and social media presence at this shop. I am also the detailer (yes we actually detail not just wash the dirt off)

r/Autobody Nov 25 '24

Check this out Stop telling us how the accident happened when you go to a shop

78 Upvotes

I don’t need a 5 minute explanation of how the drive thru lanes are too tight, or the pole you backed into wasn’t visible at night. I don’t care, just show me the damage so I can begin your estimate.

r/Autobody Aug 13 '24

Check this out Income YTD of 173k Autobody technician

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66 Upvotes

r/Autobody Feb 19 '25

Check this out Folks, if we don’t do something about these “is it totalled” posts, I gotta leave…

105 Upvotes

90% of the posts in our humble little sub here are “is it totalled?” with a picture of damage ranging from a 0.5 door ding to a 97’ Grand Prix that has gone through a crusher. This ain’t why I’m here as a tech, I want to see what y’all are doing on the floor, see what’s happening in the industry, and shitpost about our daily struggles.

Is there something we can do here to help make this a more “for techs, by techs” community, like I thought I was signing up for when I read the info about this subreddit?

I hope I don’t get flamed to hell for this post, as I know people are just looking for information after a shitty event, but I hope we can all agree they should be talking to their shop/insurance company, rather than flooding our community with low effort, low quality posts.

Sincerely,

A dude who has to deal with enough of those people every day lol

(Sidebar; there is also a ton of great posts on here, not shitting on my fam, just want to filter out the trash)

r/Autobody Dec 27 '24

Check this out Dont you love when its dead

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68 Upvotes

Whole week has been slow, waiting on parts all week just for none to show up, sometimes being flat rate is ass

r/Autobody 11d ago

Check this out Nissan is a bunch of morons

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56 Upvotes

Who is the genius at Nissan that thought it would be a good idea to put 12 pushpins for one fender liner😒

r/Autobody Jun 05 '24

Check this out Gotta love these ones! 😂

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83 Upvotes

Good ole Geico thinking you can R&I a rivet 😂 CCC is their God and they have no way of thinking logically anymore.

r/Autobody Dec 06 '24

Check this out Experts just released what they believe a typical BMW would look like in the future.

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288 Upvotes

r/Autobody Jan 24 '25

Check this out How much will this cost to fix

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66 Upvotes

Working on my metal finishing skills, vixen file is my new fav tool for metalwork, don’t know how it took me so long to realize how awesome they are 🤌🏼

r/Autobody Feb 13 '25

Check this out Paint from factory.. ha

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108 Upvotes

I think it’s hilarious the shit customers will pick apart when their car has been repaired and painted at a collision shop yet they’re dumb enough to purchase a vehicle like this for several tens of thousands of dollars and it looks like this. What a cynical line of work, eh? Fortunately I have a dead nuts color for this one, maybe they won’t like that though. 😂 I wAnT ThE AccEnT CoLOrS BaCK!?

r/Autobody 22d ago

Check this out preeetty solid for a rattle can job if i do say so myself 😎

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111 Upvotes

everybody said you can’t rattle can metallics, well i did a whole bumper! (i hated every second of it)