Originally Posted By: Ethan1
Originally Posted By: Nick1994
Originally Posted By: Ethan1
The price difference on a door ding would be very small. PDR vendors up-charge 25% for aluminum, and a bodyshop would charge just slightly more for fixing a small dent in an aluminum panel. But these are pickup trucks, so no one's worried about door dings, right? It's not like they're $50k family hauler status symbols
As for the frame, C-channel frames are extremely weak when compared to a boxed frame. Anyone who's ever built anything out of metal or even wood can tell you that a boxed-in structure is wildly better. I've actually never heard anyone say question the supremacy of a boxed frame. I mean, they even mention it in TV ads. Common sense.
Only on BITOG...
I've done body work, I go to my dad's body shop and help him often, he's done it for 29 years. A PDR guy can only get out little dings, which is probably 1% of damage to vehicles.
Here's an F350 I replaced the side on. A backhoe operator accidentally took the doors off of it with his bucket. I don't think a PDR guy is gonna fix that...
Sweet. Ford doesn't usually allow sectioning of an inner B-pillar though, even though it's nice to not take the roof off
I'm talking about door dings because you were talking about door dings. Read your comment.
Lol it sections if you take a grinder with a cutting wheel to it