Fender Bender

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Bloodman324
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Well today, i was trying to squeeze into the gas station and i didnt have quite enough room, i ended up running into someones tire and pushing the drivers side end of the bumper in and bending my fender outward and as this happened, the side of a piller bent and left a red streak on the bottom panel on the front of the bed on the passenger side. this really sucked!! :tisk: :frown: :facepalm:


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PEZi
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Lame! Hope its an easy fix man!

synack7350
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I feel your pain about a month ago I had a catastrophic tire failure at 80 mph. I didn't crash but the tire came apart and wasted the rear ?quarter panel? on the bed below the weld. My pops is a body guy and is going to be doing all the body work next month he thinks he can beat it out but I'm not sure its folded completely. Otherwise I have an angle on a metal fab shop that might be up to the task of rolling a welding on a whole new piece. That sounds pricey though 0o.

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Bloodman324
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Ya it was sorta easy, i was able to pound everything out to were it looks sorta normal haha imma have to replace the fender thats for sure, and the bumper and both bumper ends lol i was gonna replace the bed anyways so that one panel is no biggy haha it can stay dented. And damn snyack7350! that really sucks, hope it wont take too much to repair. Ill have pics up ASAP lol

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Bloodman324
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Was able to pound the fender back in, still looks like crap haha but i was gonna replace that anyways Image

You can see were the bumper pushed up into the front of the fender
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Broke that black plastic endpeice
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Bent my bumper :(
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