Need some body work opinions - wife’s 22 Yukon

[AJMBLAZER]

Posting here for more eyes.

Wife and a Beemer had a disagreement on who should be where at church the other morning. Everything’s cool and insurance is paying for it all.

Passenger side running board took a hit and needs a replacement. The door and…I guess that’d be the C pillar?…in front of the wheel well had paint smudges that wiped off except for one scratch.

Insurance company said get a quote so we took it to a shop we kind of know and had good feelings about. They gave us a quote and last week a check shows up made out to us for the repair minus the deductible.



You can barely see the scratch on the door and the best thing the body shop could describe the damage was is that the “metal got moved.”
Door gap is fine. Door shuts fine. If you get right down on it you can see a few “low points” on the C pillar/quarter panel but you have to be face to face with it.
Guy at the body shop basically described it as body filler and repaint but to do it all correctly the back side window, trim, and door components come off to blend the paint in.

Meanwhile I’m sitting here with a check made out to us, it doesn’t look that bad to me, and I can buy a new running board for 80% the cost they are quoting for the part. I can have the whole car detailed inside and out with ceramic coating and still be into it for less than half what they quoted.
This also means the window, door, trim, seals, and other stuff stays original and untouched.

Am I crazy to think about doing this?

 

[bigjbear]

From those photos I go new running board and a good detail. If it was older I’d get new running boards for both sides, but I’m guessing a ‘22 hasn’t faded much.

 

[76zimmer]

Id run w the check, and get a new running board!

 

[Wes Harden]

call a paint less dent repair outfit. They more than likely will come to you, and be done in an afternoon.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Glad to know I’m not crazy alone.

Anyone have access to the GM parts finder system? I’d like to verify some part numbers so I know I’m ordering the correct stuff.

 

[imiceman44]

Posting here for more eyes.

Wife and a Beemer had a disagreement on who should be where at church the other morning. Everything’s cool and insurance is paying for it all.

Passenger side running board took a hit and needs a replacement. The door and…I guess that’d be the C pillar?…in front of the wheel well had paint smudges that wiped off except for one scratch.

Insurance company said get a quote so we took it to a shop we kind of know and had good feelings about. They gave us a quote and last week a check shows up made out to us for the repair minus the deductible.
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You can barely see the scratch on the door and the best thing the body shop could describe the damage was is that the “metal got moved.”
Door gap is fine. Door shuts fine. If you get right down on it you can see a few “low points” on the C pillar/quarter panel but you have to be face to face with it.
Guy at the body shop basically described it as body filler and repaint but to do it all correctly the back side window, trim, and door components come off to blend the paint in.

Meanwhile I’m sitting here with a check made out to us, it doesn’t look that bad to me, and I can buy a new running board for 80% the cost they are quoting for the part. I can have the whole car detailed inside and out with ceramic coating and still be into it for less than half what they quoted.
This also means the window, door, trim, seals, and other stuff stays original and untouched.

Am I crazy to think about doing this?

I would do it myself

 

[Blue85]

It's hard to tell from pictures, but it looks like the kind of thing where I'd rather keep the factory paint, seals, etc intact. You're the one who will have to look at it in person, either way. If your wife's Yukon is anything like my wife's, this sort of little incident will happen again.

 

[muddybuddy]

Stuff happens and would hate to make it perfect again and then have it get scratched up again, regardless of who is at fault. I agree detail and new running board. If it was show car, different story. But for something that will be driven everyday and likely get dinged and dented all the time in a parking lot, as long as you can live with it. It at least takes the sting away now that it has some blemishes. The first one is always the worst, at least here you have some money in your pocket to help offset.

 

[CyberSniper]

Use a quality paper towel (the white painter's paper towels are fine) and clean up the scratches with this (can usually find it in old time hardware stores, but otherwise is getting rare since Dupont sold it to Cyclo who sold it to these guys):

No 7 Clearcoat Polishing Compound, 8 fl oz (Case of 12) | eBay

Removes light oxidation.

www.ebay.com

And get a salvage running board from https://www.car-part.com/


As my wife has gotten older, she drives by braille. I blame it on finger ****ing her phone 24x7, but who knows. When she was younger she didn't even get stone chips, now her car looks like Stevie Wonder has been driving it in Boston.

 

[shock88]

let’s not forget the real champion here, the running board. It saved the yukon from a whole lot of damage

 

[imiceman44]

Use a quality paper towel (the white painter's paper towels are fine) and clean up the scratches with this (can usually find it in old time hardware stores, but otherwise is getting rare since Dupont sold it to Cyclo who sold it to these guys):

No 7 Clearcoat Polishing Compound, 8 fl oz (Case of 12) | eBay

Removes light oxidation.

www.ebay.com

And get a salvage running board from https://www.car-part.com/


As my wife has gotten older, she drives by braille. I blame it on finger ****ing her phone 24x7, but who knows. When she was younger she didn't even get stone chips, now her car looks like Stevie Wonder has been driving it in Boston.

I use the magic eraser pads, they remove any paint marks without scratching the paint

 

[AJMBLAZER]

We got the scuffs and paint off. What's left now just needs a good polish.

I do know of a paintless dent guy. Might take it to him and get his opinion.

My wife's been a good driver but she did have her two mini-me's in the vehicle and apparently she cut it close while he was parking goofy and THUMP they met. She said it felt more like she slid off of the back of his car.

For the record, yes, I am impressed with the running board. It took a hit with what appears to be (unfortunately unfixable) cosmetic damage. I'm just trying to figure out which parts I need. I keep seeing black and chrome as the options but then there's a different trim piece for each board. Our board is black with black trim which doesn't quite line up to what I'm seeing. Might just call the local Chevy dealership with the VIN and see what they offer me. Their price will be nuts but I can probably get the part number off of them.

 

[Tnsejed]

I just sprayed a new fender and front bumper cover on my wifes '18 yukon denali. To redo the paint, yeah they will have to remove all the trim and blend into the adjacent areas. Paint codes nowadays are garbage and there's 20 different shades of the same paint code, add in metallic and there are different shades of pearl metallic. Took me half hour going through chips to choose.

With that said matching the factory orange peel was the toughest. I didn't get it exact and its the one thing you can really notice.

If it was mine I'd do like everyone else said, running board and be done, and if the paint bothers you do what what @Wes Harden said, call paintless. Anything to not respray.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

What a PITA.
Car-part.com only had already damaged, over priced junk. Ebay showed me a bunch more damaged stuff but I then came across a practically new board off of a ‘25 Tahoe for 60% of new with free shipping. Turns out this yard buys and scraps vehicles that were damaged before GM could get them sent to dealers. They can’t sell them new after the damage so they’re written off and scrapped. Thing looks good.

Only this isn’t it. Monday they tell me one of their guys dropped it as they were preparing the order and now it’s broken. F$:@&!G $&-! They refunded me while apologizing.

Find one from an online GM parts place for $100 less that the local place. Order will never place despite me trying for two days on two different devices. Their “contact us” link never got any replies.

Bit the bullet and ordered it yesterday locally. Came today. Opened the box and it had the brackets snd correct trim slready installed. 30 minutes later I had the new one installed.

Now for the detailing.

 

[76zimmer]

Man, customer service sucks these days.
That looks good!