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Old Apr 26, 2005 | 02:09 PM
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13 days, 9 working days and she's fixed. For anyone in the Hampton Roads area, RK Body Shop does great work. If you don't like their Sales/Service thats fine, but the Body Shop is Outstanding.

Below are before and after. Things that were fixed: Right rear Quarter, Right door, new SS rim, new Rear end housing, Right axel shaft, new bearings and such on both sides. Total repair was $3770.

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Old Apr 26, 2005 | 02:15 PM
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Other then the dent at the bottm on the quarter, it looks good. I would make them fix that. I work at a bodyshop and that would have not been allowed out the door like that.
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Old Apr 26, 2005 | 02:21 PM
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Other then the dent at the bottm on the quarter, it looks good. I would make them fix that. I work at a bodyshop and that would have not been allowed out the door like that.
There is no dent, I think maybe the way pic pic was taken. It just looks cleaner in that spot than the rest right now. When I picked it up, I went accross the street to get gas and someone made a nice comment on the car. I told him I just picked it up from the Body Shop, he couldn't tell where it was fixed, he looked all over the car. He made a guess on the driver side cause a shadow made my door look like a slight different shade. I told him he was looking on the wrong side.
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Old Apr 26, 2005 | 02:21 PM
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I'm no body-man, but is that a lot of orange-peel in just the repair area too? Someone else look at that and tell me if I'm seeing things.
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Old Apr 26, 2005 | 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Daley
I'm no body-man, but is that a lot of orange-peel in just the repair area too? Someone else look at that and tell me if I'm seeing things.
It looks like the rest of the body, just a little cleaner.
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Old Apr 26, 2005 | 02:41 PM
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I dont want to be rude but I would like to point out areas that you should look at to see if they realy did a good job. You should look at the drip area where the panles line up, the door jam and also around the tail light to see is if they got everything lined up. My buddy just got his car back together with the same problem on a bigger scale.
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Old Apr 26, 2005 | 02:59 PM
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The pics don't do the work justice, to see it in person you can tell how good it is. In the pics certain shadows/reflections make it look not perfect or still dented or misaligned. I wish I could have a 3d photo like my own eyes, but I don't have that ability.
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Old Apr 26, 2005 | 09:25 PM
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Looks good. I'm glad you got the car done.

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Glad to see you got it fixed. I hate driving a bruised car.
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Old Apr 26, 2005 | 09:58 PM
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This is what I noticed and thats no reflection.
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Ah the line is from the driveway, my bad. but not the dent.
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Old Apr 27, 2005 | 02:34 PM
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Ah the line is from the driveway, my bad. but not the dent.
No dent. I got down at eye level in the garage, no dent to be seen like in the pic. It's odd how the pictures don't make it look perfect. I need to find a place to go and get pics w/o certain reflections.
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Old Apr 27, 2005 | 03:11 PM
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looks good. btw, i got my first f-body from RK chevrolet. 98 v-6
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