RatLabGuy
You look like a monkey and smell like one too
- Joined
- May 18, 2005
- Location
- Churchville, MD
I just had a DOH! moment and backed into my wife's '10 Mazda5.
So I've go to plan a fix pronto!
Front pass door has a nice scratch and very slightly depressed, but looks like simple bodywork recovery.
The sliding rear P-door... not so lucky, it got caught right at the front edge and creased in pretty bad, nice chunk of paint missing too. Not sure if it's at all fixable.
I'm thinking I might just buy a junkyard door, or even both, and swap myself.
Looks like our color (maroon) is rare, but found a few matches via car-part.com. If I didn't care about color, options are wider/cheaper.
Here's what I'm wondering:
1 - If I get one of matching color from a junkyard, what are the chances it actually matches? E.g. no painting?
2 - The front door damage isn't bad but will require a body shop to patch and paint. Looks like a replacement door is ~$350 for matching color. Of course there is my time to switch everything over. I assume a boy shop would be alot more than that to repair it?
If another door won't ever match, or if I'm going to end up w/ somebody painting it anyway, I'm guess I'd be cheaper off just buying any old doors on a deal and paiiyng for a repaint.
Hell then I'd be tempted to repaint the whole car, we always hated the generic-ness of this maroon...
So I've go to plan a fix pronto!
Front pass door has a nice scratch and very slightly depressed, but looks like simple bodywork recovery.
The sliding rear P-door... not so lucky, it got caught right at the front edge and creased in pretty bad, nice chunk of paint missing too. Not sure if it's at all fixable.
I'm thinking I might just buy a junkyard door, or even both, and swap myself.
Looks like our color (maroon) is rare, but found a few matches via car-part.com. If I didn't care about color, options are wider/cheaper.
Here's what I'm wondering:
1 - If I get one of matching color from a junkyard, what are the chances it actually matches? E.g. no painting?
2 - The front door damage isn't bad but will require a body shop to patch and paint. Looks like a replacement door is ~$350 for matching color. Of course there is my time to switch everything over. I assume a boy shop would be alot more than that to repair it?
If another door won't ever match, or if I'm going to end up w/ somebody painting it anyway, I'm guess I'd be cheaper off just buying any old doors on a deal and paiiyng for a repaint.
Hell then I'd be tempted to repaint the whole car, we always hated the generic-ness of this maroon...