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> I saw a guy dent a rear quarter panel and the quote was $45k.

4100 still sounds insane amount of money. An amount that sounds like something somewhere or everywhere has gone wrong.

More a story about the body shop / car insurance interplay and blue collar skilled service industry / Private Equity dynamics.

My beat up truck got quoted 6k to replace a dent caused by a fender bender.

How much was the hotel room to go to Florida? He had to drive to a dent YouTuber.