Body work done for $100.

[JRS90FASTBACK]

So I went to the gas station earlier today to fill up, and I was approached by an older man asking if I wanted some of my dents out. I wasn't interested but then he told me if I would consider it if the price was low. He said $150 but I lowered it to $100. I took some before and after shots but some of the angles aren't exactly similar. I think it looks a little better, but I wanted a second opinion as to whether I'm better off now or screwed even more. Oh yeah, the holes are from a screwdriver he hammered into the car, pretty ghetto I think but I didn't wanna question the 50-something year old man. Realization about what I did didn't hit until an hour back. Oh and I'm replacing the bumper soon with a cleaner one with pig lip, so don't worry about that.
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3161/1004091545.jpg (http://img9.imageshack.us/i/1004091545.jpg/) http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1004091545.jpg/1/ (http://g.imageshack.us/img9/1004091545.jpg/1/)

Before:
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4029/1018091446.jpg (http://img9.imageshack.us/i/1018091446.jpg/) http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1018091446.jpg/1/ (http://g.imageshack.us/img9/1018091446.jpg/1/)

After:
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9624/1018091540.jpg (http://img8.imageshack.us/i/1018091540.jpg/) http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1018091540.jpg/1/ (http://g.imageshack.us/img8/1018091540.jpg/1/)

Before:
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8873/1018091446a.jpg (http://img7.imageshack.us/i/1018091446a.jpg/) http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/1018091446a.jpg/1/ (http://g.imageshack.us/img7/1018091446a.jpg/1/)

After:
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3023/1018091540a.jpg (http://img39.imageshack.us/i/1018091540a.jpg/) http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/1018091540a.jpg/1/ (http://g.imageshack.us/img39/1018091540a.jpg/1/)

Before:
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4555/1018091447.jpg (http://img9.imageshack.us/i/1018091447.jpg/) http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1018091447.jpg/1/ (http://g.imageshack.us/img9/1018091447.jpg/1/)

After:
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2544/1018091541.jpg (http://img9.imageshack.us/i/1018091541.jpg/) http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1018091541.jpg/1/ (http://g.imageshack.us/img9/1018091541.jpg/1/)

Before:
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/6769/1018091446d.jpg (http://img8.imageshack.us/i/1018091446d.jpg/) http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1018091446d.jpg/1/ (http://g.imageshack.us/img8/1018091446d.jpg/1/)

After:
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4623/1018091541a.jpg (http://img42.imageshack.us/i/1018091541a.jpg/) http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/1018091541a.jpg/1/ (http://g.imageshack.us/img42/1018091541a.jpg/1/)

Last one, Before:
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/8190/1018091446c.jpg (http://img42.imageshack.us/i/1018091446c.jpg/) http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/1018091446c.jpg/1/ (http://g.imageshack.us/img42/1018091446c.jpg/1/)

After:
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8036/1018091541b.jpg (http://img207.imageshack.us/i/1018091541b.jpg/) http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/1018091541b.jpg/1/ (http://g.imageshack.us/img207/1018091541b.jpg/1/)

Btw, does anyone like my Z wheels as much as I do?:hs:

[choleboy]

he didn't do a very good job....

[FullAutoLock]

I dont know if its just the pics but i cant really tell that there is to much of a difference...

[theslows13]

so he made a ghetto slide hammer? well... its kinda better in an overall silhouette way, but i wouldnt be a fan of 1/4" holes all over my car

[JRS90FASTBACK]

Looking at the car in person I think it looks a little better, but I'm just not $100 pleased lol.

[JEDIs13]

you were better off before IMO :2c:
that old man probably got a 30 pack and some weed with your money

[JRS90FASTBACK]

so he made a ghetto slide hammer? well... its kinda better in an overall silhouette way, but i wouldnt be a fan of 1/4" holes all over my car

He made 6 holes, and he was telling me that when I get it painted they can just patch the holes up with bondo, sand it down, and they wouldn't be noticed.

[DJDANGER24]

$100 for that ? you, got ripped off.

[JRS90FASTBACK]

you were better off before IMO :2c:
that old man probably got a 30 pack and some weed with your money

Haha, Idk.. he was like a 50-something kinda heavy set italian guy that pulled up in a cadillac with his wife offering his services. Looked desperate for something.. lol.

[godrifttoday]

The dents are still there so i personally believe u wasted 100 dollars for a better looking dent. If he did remove them completly that would have been really good deal

[Devens240]

Only in Vegas lol

[kaking]

you just payed a $100 for different shaped dents

[jzepol1985]

I had some guy come up to me in the same manner. Except he didn't put a screwdriver in my car. He had everything tools and all. He was very legit.
Great work
We all learn some way or another

[Ceepo]

Macco would have been better or do it yourself and learn how to, that fender damage, would have been easier to get a diffrent fender(look a hell alot better).... but it was a good deed to help some guy and his wife out i suppose:bigok:

[JRS90FASTBACK]

I had some guy come up to me in the same manner. Except he didn't put a screwdriver in my car. He had everything tools and all. He was very legit.
Great work
We all learn some way or another

Yeah I guess. You know how some of you on here say "You get what you pay for"? After reading the responses, I feel like this guy owes me store credit or something.

[s13 @ fullboost]

you should have just got gas and went on your way sorry you got skrewd man.

[JRS90FASTBACK]

Macco would have been better or do it yourself and learn how to, that fender damage, would have been easier to get a diffrent fender(look a hell alot better).... but it was a good deed to help some guy and his wife out i suppose:bigok:

I've been looking for a fender for a while now, ANY color pop up fender, but the people either don't want to ship, or some local beats me to it lol. I would've spent these $100 for a clean any color fender shipped to vegas. I still might! But you know, another hundred.

[Devens240]

Yeah I guess. You know how some of you on here say "You get what you pay for"? After reading the responses, I feel like this guy owes me store credit or something.

i seriously doubt this guy has a store to give you a "store credit: in lol

[JEDIs13]

you just payed a $100 for different shaped dents

you just explained this whole thread perfectly in on sentence

[ixfxi]

damn, he made your shitty s13 just a bit more shitty.

fucked up, old lion took advantage of young lion. does he have no shame? what an asshole.

[JDGrimReaper666]

Is it just me or do the "after" pics look worse?

[ZX88]

wait..... did you fix something here?

[FaLKoN240]

...Why would you pay someone to do that to your car? I would've just left the piece of shit, a piece of shit, until I could afford proper body work.

Or just get some junk yard fenders.

[JRS90FASTBACK]

Haha, thanks. You guys made me feel stupid for doing this now. I thought I could somehow get really lucky and get a good job done cheap.

[Spring Break '92]

I think he got some of the pics mixed up and made the 'after' the 'before' by mistake. Or at least I hope so. What you got now is something you might be able to swipe bondo over and make look good if you know what you are doing. Next spend the $50 that you saved by talking dude down from his original price on some Rustoleum roll paint and some mineral spirits and various grades of wet sand paper and roll paint that mother in white again.

[ThatGuy]

Let us know when you take it somewhere to have it properly fixed.

Then you can tell us how you paid $100 to have $500 worth of damage done to your car.

Great choice kid.

Make sure you buy some subwoofers out of the back of that van at the next gas station, too.

:duh: :duh: :duh: :duh:

[Shadowhunter]

Dude, I dunno about you...but if I'm at a gas station or a walmart parking lot or whatever and someone offers me car services I would be extremely hesitant. The paintless dent removal dudes do a great job, but they do just that they remove the dents. Looks like the dents are still there and your car still looks like it made out with a jersey barrier. When I saw that and he asked me for $100 bucks I would have laughed in his face and drove off.
If you want to really get dents removed go with like dent doctor or a reputable PDR specialist. The car should look like it never got damaged in the first place. I paid about $200 to have a huge dent removed from my GSR's rear quarter(some asshole kicked it in) and it looked like it never happened.

Live and learn and if you see him again kick him in the nuts and take his wallet.

[S13Boosts]

Y????????????????????????????????

[sidedrifts13]

man go get your money back i know a guy that does that type of work way batter for $50 a dent and atleast leaves it straight

[duffman1278]

Would have been better off using that money to buy a used fender with no dents and replacing it, and then leaving all the other dents on.

[skavenger]

you just payed a $100 for different shaped dents

lol :werd:

[EP2009]

:olol.. did u tell em anything after he was done "oh goood job sir":ugh:

[JRS90FASTBACK]

:olol.. did u tell em anything after he was done "oh goood job sir":ugh:

I was just kinda happy that he put the hammer down. The first thing that crossed my mind was telling him to follow me to the bank and losing him on some street, but that's not me lol. Not only that but he rode shotgun with me to the bank.

[DALAZ_68]

lol omfg lol jesus...

[airhead]

lol you should of saved up to get the right tools and do it your self
uni spotter
body materials
couple of shop tools like DA small compressor ect.
keep it low budget go to harbor frieght !!!!

[kalypso123]

its not much of an improvement.

it will take more work to get it right

[ms!3]

no thanks isn't that hard to say. lol

[cc4usmc]

Can I haz $100?

[ViciousCesar!]

i have a hammer and screwdriver in my car. anyone want me to pull their dents for $100?

LMAO

[drift freaq]

wow just fucking wow. I am sorry you even considered it. Like others have said you just spent $100 to spend an extra $500 to get some dents fixed that could have been done professionally for $350 without paint. Before the old attacked your car with a hammer and a screw driver. Fuck the minute he pulled those out I would have been no way man your not touching my fucking car, you crazy old fuck.

[Def]

Wait, you let him jab a damn screwdriver into the side of your car and didn't say anything?!?!?!?!

You can't just bondo over holes like that and expect it to last. You have to fix a panel to the back(welding or epoxy), then bondo, then sand. A lot of work just to fix those holes, and he didn't even get the damn dents out.

[iHeartTheTouge]

i wouldnt pay for that kind of work. do it right the first time, dont trust a guy who does his marketing at a gas station.

[JRS90FASTBACK]

Fuck. So I'm way worse off now than I was before. You know the first second thoughts started coming when there was paint chips hitting the ground from the guy hammering the fender, but I thought, well I don't think it can get worse..

[CrimsonRockett]

You're out $100 and you STILL have to pay the same price(if not more to have those new holes welded shut now) to have all those dents properly repaired.

Wow...just wow.

[Sileighty_85]

For $50 I'll take a dump in your valve cover,
It'll lower your oil consumption

[DALAZ_68]

you just payed a $100 for different shaped dents


omfg lol

damn, he made your shitty s13 just a bit more shitty.

fucked up, old lion took advantage of young lion. does he have no shame? what an asshole.

pretty much

You're out $100 and you STILL have to pay the same price(if not more to have those new holes welded shut now) to have all those dents properly repaired.

Wow...just wow.

once again....agreed

[JRS90FASTBACK]

i have a hammer and screwdriver in my car. anyone want me to pull their dents for $100?

LMAO

For $50 I'll take a dump in your valve cover,
It'll lower your oil consumption

When and where can you meet me? Sounds cheap, and I'm sure you guys will make my car nicer!:hahano:

[HyperTek]

for $100 you should have hit me up, i would have gave your car a brand new flat black spray paint job =)
oh and throw in a few stickers to cover up the visible areas of your windsheild too since thats the trend here.

[JRS90FASTBACK]

for $100 you should have hit me up, i would have gave your car a brand new flat black spray paint job =)
oh and throw in a few stickers to cover up the visible areas of your windsheild too since thats the trend here.

Lol, no thanks. I've seen more than enough flat black paintjobs. I wanna paint it like that one Z32, I think it's Nissan Super White? Idk, but that shit was nice. Only reason why I did this is because I hate the dents and dings on the car and I thought this would be a quick, cheap solution for that, but man was I wrong huh?

[Odysseus]

Hahahaha...You got shafted. So stupid.

Im sorry but he fucked you.

[FusionR240sx]

Loll...
Fyl!

and next time u or ur friends do something like this.. just paypal me half the money they tell you that they're gona charge...
cuz i'll put that money to good use..
[email protected]

accepting w/e funds you're willing to waste.

[bardabe]

sorry for your loss

[ixfxi]

come on guys, give the kid a break.... he got taken.


im a huge shit talker but i feel for the guy, 50 year old con artist nabbed him for some dough.... its fucked up.

[hellaslows13]

I had some guy come up to me in the same manner. Except he didn't put a screwdriver in my car. He had everything tools and all. He was very legit.
Great work
We all learn some way or another

Same..some guy was telling me about his services at a stop light...lol that light stayed red for so long

Sorry about your loss man, people these days will do anything to make an extra dollar, including taking your money and fucking up your car more then it already was.

[zenki.life]

100 for nothing

[SlideKing92]

Ouch..... That poor car :(

[Howard92884]

haha, that is all.

[killer240]

damn u got ripped off.
those dents aint bad. really easy to fix too, i could have done waaaaay better for a box of pizza and a drink.

i think he did that in purpose, cuz u only paid him 100. body works are pricey.

[Renelovesnike]

honestly this exact same thing happend to my friend but for only 50 bux!!!

i would never put holes in my car!! would rather tac weld some pins and pull those then grind them off than actually putting a hole in the 1/4 pannel!!

and plus u want the LEAST amount of bondo on ur car as you can!!

[projectRDM]

I can't believe no one has flamed this kid harder.

OP- You're a fucking idiot. Period. If you actually believed some random guy you've never met would just walk up to you and offer you services you'd be happy to pay for, go to the bathroom at the same gas station, there's another guy wanted his dick sucked for the same price. He'll be happy to see you.

Seriously, anyone with any shred of intelligence knows how bodywork is done and knows damn well some guy with a screwdriver doesn't know what in hell he's doing. You got raped in the ass dry with a broom handle, and you deserved it. I have no sympathy for ignorance of that level. You would have been better off just parking it and charging people money to throw bricks at it, at least you'd have money in your pocket.

[Taniguchi_Is_#1]

OP: i'll give you $10 to throw 6 bricks at your car.

[JRS90FASTBACK]

I can't believe no one has flamed this kid harder.

OP- You're a fucking idiot. Period. If you actually believed some random guy you've never met would just walk up to you and offer you services you'd be happy to pay for, go to the bathroom at the same gas station, there's another guy wanted his dick sucked for the same price. He'll be happy to see you.

Seriously, anyone with any shred of intelligence knows how bodywork is done and knows damn well some guy with a screwdriver doesn't know what in hell he's doing. You got raped in the ass dry with a broom handle, and you deserved it. I have no sympathy for ignorance of that level. You would have been better off just parking it and charging people money to throw bricks at it, at least you'd have money in your pocket.

I expected this when I started the thread. I was like, "well, maybe they'll say that he did pop out some dents, but what's with the fucking holes?" I think it looks a little better in person than in the pics but either way I'm still out $100 and still need my body fixed.(Maybe even more now)

OP: i'll give you $10 to throw 6 bricks at your car.

I have some hot wheels, and I charge 5 dollars per brick thrown, Lmk if interested.

[burnsauto]

holy crap you got ripped off, and holy crap you're dumb for doing that to your car.

those holes need to be welded shut, ground down flush, and THEN you can prime, paint, etc.

filler actually absorbs and traps water, so shoving "bondo" over a hole will just make that hole start rusting even faster.


BODYWORK IS NEVER CHEAP. IF ITS CHEAP, ITS NOT GOOD WORK.

[Phlip]

Why, oh why did I let this damned thread live last night?