This. A good paintless dent guy can do amazing stuff. They have literally saved me thousands of dollars and saved my factory paint on 3 different cars.
I've decided that I'm paying out of pocket either way, my insurance is calling this an at-fault collision which will create some serious hell for me in a couple weeks when I go to register my truck (I just moved halfway across the country a week ago)
Hey, Jon, thanks for posting this. My garage has a similar, nearly identical, hanging cable. Nothing bad has come of it so far, dumb luck, I guess. Will be more careful in future, thanks to you!TL;DR: Garage door had a loose cable hanging from it. Antenna got caught up and ripped the entire antenna assembly from the roof.
Body shops now quoting me anywhere from 1-2k to fix the dent, repaint, and install a new antenna assembly.
If anybody can recommend a body shop in the greater Denver, Colorado area that won't charge an arm and a leg to fix this; please reach out. Insurance wants to code this as an at-fault collision and I'd prefer to avoid this because I have not registered/insured my truck in Colorado yet.
Any suggestions or ideas are welcome. Half of the quoted costs of the repair stem just from labor getting the headliner down due to the amount of trim panels that hold it together.
Here's the cable hanging there mocking me. I just moved into this apartment 1 week ago and they stated this is a new garage door opener. I guess the tech who did the install doesn't care about the finer points of cable management.
Current state of my antenna:
Below you can see the bottom bracket of the antenna assembly, this is attached from inside the roof and somehow was pulled through (likely caused much of the damage above)
If you file an insurance claim, I guarantee that you will pay more than the cost of that repair and higher insurance rates for three years. Ask me how I know. I think it would take at least two grand in damages for me to ever claim insurance again.
Ouch.If you file an insurance claim, I guarantee that you will pay more than the cost of that repair and higher insurance rates for three years. Ask me how I know. I think it would take at least two grand in damages for me to ever claim insurance again.
That's what I'm struggling with at the moment because this idiot typing had his garage door up a little more than halfway and forgot when he got in his truck and tried backing out of the garage.
A dent on the cab just above the rear glass. So glad I did not shatter that window. An inch or two lower and I suppose I would've taken out that rear glass. No estimate yet perhaps today. The damn paint is so thin it chipped right off of there. Doesn't even look like there's any primer under that spot on the right side.
That cable is so you can release the garage door and open it manually in case of a power outage. Thieves take a coat hanger and stick it up through the garage door top and reach in there and hook that and pull it said I can break in your house. They can do it in 10 seconds. A good trick is to put a flimsy cable tie or tape on it tied up high so that they cannot do that but you can pull it quickly in case of a emergency to get out of the house in the event of a power outage. I think there's some tricks on YouTube about that.
oopsies!! My suggestion is to go to evergreen and talk to the guys at L&H. That is who I went through when my frontier was getting fixed and the Ford dealer I worked at went through them!! They do very good work!!TL;DR: Garage door had a loose cable hanging from it. Antenna got caught up and ripped the entire antenna assembly from the roof.
Body shops now quoting me anywhere from 1-2k to fix the dent, repaint, and install a new antenna assembly.
If anybody can recommend a body shop in the greater Denver, Colorado area that won't charge an arm and a leg to fix this; please reach out. Insurance wants to code this as an at-fault collision and I'd prefer to avoid this because I have not registered/insured my truck in Colorado yet.
Any suggestions or ideas are welcome. Half of the quoted costs of the repair stem just from labor getting the headliner down due to the amount of trim panels that hold it together.
Here's the cable hanging there mocking me. I just moved into this apartment 1 week ago and they stated this is a new garage door opener. I guess the tech who did the install doesn't care about the finer points of cable management.
Current state of my antenna:
Below you can see the bottom bracket of the antenna assembly, this is attached from inside the roof and somehow was pulled through (likely caused much of the damage above)
Reminds me of the 12 seater plane (I think it had that many) I flew from Gitmo to Fort Lauderdale. There was duct tape on all the windows on the inside! They called it 200 mph duck tape. I kid you not!
And now I have learned something, the cable being a way to release the door from the outside and from articles I looked at, they all hang down. Looks very sloppy and should be easy to tie up with zip ties or some type of break away eyelet. It would stay functional and the eyelets or whatever you chose to use could be replaced if you ever had to use the outside lock.
^^^^ this. I'd tape all the extra to the door. watch it go up and down from inside to see how much slack is actually needed during normal operation. (probably not much, all the pieces are connected until you pull the cord.)
That’s what I would do.
Cargo pit tape! It is to gaffer tape what gaffer tape is to regular duct tape. Except non-flammable, too. Every flight attendants' station and cockpit has a roll from what I've seen & heard.
