Gnate

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My mom needs a new car, so we're looking at mazda6 wagons, and we found one for $5,750 with 85k. The reason the price is so low is because the owner acidentally backed into the rear qp with his trailer.

Here are pics:

Rear quarter panel, passenger side:



Rear passenger door



Any ideas how much it would cost to get that repaired?

Thanks!

subinf

My friend had almost identical damage to his G35 - grand total from a rather expensive body shop was pushing 8k. Probably not a very realistic estimate but out here that is probably a good ballpark

BaByBlAcKtYpE-s

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The quarter panel is the most expensive part to fix there. I had a minor accident where an older lady merged in to the passenger side of my old tl. Slight quarter panel damage and some scratches on rear door from far away you couldn't tell the damage but it cost about 2 thousand to fix from an ok priced shop.

dallison

$1800

Gnate

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Damn, that is crazy. Maybe my friend's dad at an autobody shop can cut me a deal...

Will Y.

Quarter panel, door skin, rocker panel (plastic molded part, probably just replaced) and rear bumper cover-- $2000+ is my best guess.
My TL scraped a concrete light stanchion which resulted in less damage, but similar areas except for the bumper, and insurance was billed @$1700, IIRC.

Gnate

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Ugh, god that sucks. Going to look at it and take pics tomorrow. I'll bring em to a body shop to confirm, but I'm hoping my friends dad will cut me a deal. But there are plenty of other fish in the sea if this doesn't work out.

fsttyms1

its going to be a couple thousand easy, and its red, it will be harder to match which will take longer to match.

Gnate

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damn! Thanks a lot guys. This just goes to show how little I know about this stuff, I thought it would be around $1,000

haha

vas25tl

Def a couple grand..

TommySalami

I had an 04 Mazda6 v6 for 3 years and LOVED it. I regret trading it in for my Acura. I had no problems with it and it's power and handling were superb. Whatever the price, I highly recommend purchasing one, even if it's damaged.. Also, the Bose audio package is AMAZING if you happen to get that too.

Gnate

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Well, we bought it. And I got lucky! My friend's father does autobody and he said he could definitely do it for less than 2k. We're bringing it home on Saturday and I"ll probably get a quote next Monday.