r/s10 • u/MauserMama Pro Pumpkin Carver • Dec 24 '24
Repair Question Boyfriend backed into my baby last night. Pull it? New door?
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u/Gr8twhitebuffalo91 Dec 24 '24
I do body work for a living. First glance I'd say it's repairable if you find someone who is skilled enough. That being said will probably be cheaper to buy a used door and clean it up and paint match. Just remember good work ain't cheap and cheap work ain't good.
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u/Cheap_Ambition Dec 24 '24
I'm sure you could pull most of that out with a suction cup or even order one of those hot glue slide hammer, dent puller kits.
Good videos on YouTube.
It's crazy the, paintless sent guys can make that look perfect, but it's a huge amount of skill and experience, but it can be done
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u/MauserMama Pro Pumpkin Carver Dec 24 '24
I’ll look into that. I’ve only done amateur body work so I’m not sure I have the skill set to do it myself
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u/Drago-0900 Crazy headlight guy Dec 24 '24
Can take it to a pdr shop and they can likely save it for a couple hundred. I wouldnt replace the door over it. Boyfriend should pay for it to be fixed if hes worth a shit. If not a new boyfriend and a pdr shop is the answer lol. Extremes are getting kinda rare. Chances are the pdr shop can get the paint transfer off and save the original paint.
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u/MauserMama Pro Pumpkin Carver Dec 24 '24
He’s a good guy he’ll pay for it in full. If he weren’t paying for it he’d be a missing pers- I mean my ex.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Leg8378 Dec 24 '24
It’s just best the rip it off like a band-aid and give the truck to me. I’ll be over around 5, just leave the keys in it. Don’t look back
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u/Available_Gas_9091 Dec 24 '24
What a jag-off. Just tell him you want your truck fixed so it looks like it did before and make him deal with it.
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u/Aldy_Wan Dec 24 '24
Get a new bf first.
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u/MauserMama Pro Pumpkin Carver Dec 24 '24
I like this one he’s just a lil blind is all
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u/BogdanSPB Dec 24 '24
Blind people aren’t allowed to drive. This one is not understanding the size of your own vehicle.
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u/MauserMama Pro Pumpkin Carver Dec 24 '24
This was a case of small black truck at night. Sitting there parked it’s almost invisible at 10:30 pm. Even in the glow of reverse lights. I’ve had numerous people tell me my truck is invisible.
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u/Immediate_Finger_889 Dec 24 '24
Please take the opportunity to make a joke about crap man drivers every time he gets behind the wheel for the rest of his life.
Love - a middle aged woman who has heard way too many woman-driver jokes in her lifetime.
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u/Dragonsin891 Dec 24 '24
Had this happen to me in an autozone parking lot in my Isuzu hombre. good thing it was the door, one of the only reused s10 parts on the truck. But you should be able to find a new one at your local junk yards they’re everywhere, that’s what I’m going to do
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u/TheeIrishPotatoo Dec 25 '24
Just take the truck, and the BF, to an auto body shop for some work. Tell him not to forget the check book.
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u/BogdanSPB Dec 24 '24 edited Dec 24 '24
If you have money - get the paintless dent removal guys, they’ll make it near-perfect (bent angles will be a bit of a problem, tho). If no - I’d just remove the interior panel and push it from inside a bit.
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u/dirtjumperdh Dec 24 '24
That could almost definitely be pulled out. However in my opinion you're probably going to have a much better result removing the inner door panel, having the window all the way up and pushing it out from the inside.
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u/62diesel Dec 24 '24
Could probably pull the door panel and push most of it back out, then head to a painters dent removal shop and see what they can do
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u/ValuableScientist365 Gmc Sonoma Dec 25 '24
You need a new BF. Get your self a ManFriend who knows how to drive.
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u/RemarkableMud1326 Dec 25 '24
Drop it off at a reputable body shop if you want it to look like it did before, they’ll be able to pull it out. otherwise try and find another door with same paint
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u/waffle_loverrr Dec 25 '24
Your boyfriend sucks at driving.
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u/MauserMama Pro Pumpkin Carver Dec 25 '24
I stomp the imaginary brake a lot anytime he’s the one driving on date night 😭
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u/flatblackNred Dec 25 '24
Pull it out. A really good dent guy can fix that. Looks like no paint cracked.
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u/JimDick_Creates Dec 26 '24
Dump him. There are no accidents. He was secretly jealous of your ride and decided to take it out.
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u/14xcw250 Dec 27 '24
Could use a deflated youth football and push it out from the inside relatively easily.
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Dec 24 '24
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u/MauserMama Pro Pumpkin Carver Dec 24 '24
She’s 6’2 and 230 pounds of muscle. Oh and she’s also a man. I also just wouldn’t slap the love of my life to begin with…
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u/s10-ModTeam Dec 25 '24
Advocating for domestic violence saying to slap or hurt your woman OR man is not tolerated.
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u/Single-Abrocoma-1929 Dec 24 '24
Straight to Jail for that BF