Body shops have two prices. The one for the customer who shrugs at the quote, and the one for the customer who did their homework. The gap is $400 to $700 on the same dent.
Same dent. $480 at one shop. $1,250 at the next. $2,400 at the third. Three different planets.
The Insider Read
Here's what nobody at the shop is going to tell you.
The dent is one fact. The price is a negotiation. Most car owners walk into that negotiation with zero facts. The shop walks in with all of them.
That's how people get rolled. Every day. On a panel that should have cost $300.
We call the fix The Insider Read.
Snap 1 to 3 pictures of the dent. Upload them. Ninety seconds later, you get back four things the shop hopes you never see.
1. What it actually is.
Most dents shops sell as $1,200 paint jobs are really $250 paintless dent repairs. We tell you which one yours is. With reasoning, in plain English.
2. What it should cost.
A real price range for your zip code, your vehicle, your panel. Tight enough to know if a quote is fair.
3. Who to call.
3 to 5 shops near you, ranked by what real customers wrote about them.
4. What to say at the counter.
The Bottom Dollar Quote Script. A short script you read off your phone when you walk in. The words that get you a fair quote on the first try.
And the part nobody else does:
The red flags every shop hopes you don't catch. The “paint blend” line that doubles a $300 quote. The “supplemental” surcharge that lands after the work is done. The fees that should be in the original number. We tell you which lines to refuse.
No body shop is going to write you this report. Insurance isn't either. The free quote sites are lead-gen. They get paid by the shops they send you to.
There is nowhere else on the internet you can get this read on your dent.
Do the math
The average car owner overpays a body shop by $400 to $700 on one repair.
The average owner spends two Saturdays driving around for quotes.
The average owner drives off with a wave or an edge they didn't even notice until the next sunny day in the church parking lot.
The report is $4.99.
That's less than the gas to drive to one more quote.