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....and he used a shovel with a mental lip. I cant be mad at him for trying to help out his daddy, however it has put me in a spot. So there are MANY scratches of varrying size, depth, and length on every door & pannel accept the front end. I took it to the body shop to get it looked at and they said since almost all are through the clear coat and paint it will need to be 90% repainted. I took it to another and they said the same thing and asked a close friend who does body work, annnnnnd you guessed it. All esitmates were 3800-4200 range. So here is where I'm at.

Option one- use touch up paint, seal it and it looks like garbage.
Option two- pay out of pocket- not really wanting to do this.
Option three- i talked to my insurance broker and it can be claimed, however it will go on as a "collision" claim becaues "an object impacted your car", (this is an overpaid lawyer writing these policies). I have a 250 deductible. This will likely increase insurance payments by 20% by my research. Looking at this option i have considered having them repaint the flat black, I have a obsession with flat black cars. I will likely spend for the front clip to be repainted so its all from the same batch and there is no mis matching.

sorry for long post. any suggestions? I can post pics if anyone wants to see.