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Hello,

Yesterday my car got swiped by someone I guess trying to park in the spot next to me. Came back to my car an hour later and found my car like this. Looks like there are two small dents in the upper panel and a good gash in the lower panel. Went to get a few quotes and came back with $1,200 and $2,000. The higher quote mentioned a tech needed to reset the blind spot monitoring behind the panel.

Going to try to really clean and polish to see what it looks like but think I should just get insurance and pay the deductible and really research where to get it fixed. I've had the car for 7 years (55k miles) and intend on keeping it for at least another 7 years. Can live with it but may bite the bullet and get it done right. Just wondering if anyone else had something similar and how they proceeded?

I've attached the original picture and the one after cleaning it quickly.