I had a thread earlier talking about body work I need done to my truck. I'm wanting to get this completed before this winter and would like everyone's views on it. My other thread people were thinking the quotes I got might of been to much, so I started this thread to show the issues and discuss it all.

 

Now for pics:

 

 

 

First picture is passenger side, that's the only part of rust. It was actually hidden and the only way I found out was because there was a clean slice in paint and when cleaning truck (not seeing it) the hose blew the piece of paint off and displayed that.

 

Second and third pic is driver side. Second pic is from underneath. The third pic you can see the scratch with indent at top of bed, that they stated would need filler.

 

Now the quotes I got were from 1,300-3,000 to sand down, repaint. Now the $3,000 place was the only person to quote that high and was only one saying I need a new panel, all other shops quoted between $1,300-$1,500 and all said panel doesn't need to be replaced. All jobs said it will be a week to complete which is fine by me.

 

So from seeing those pics and hearing those prices, do you guys think that is about right?

$1500.00 is fair.... 

67gtonut- thanks for replying, I believe if I'm right you are a mechanic so your opinion is highly appreciated. Let me ask you this, if you know, do you know if Rocco's Collision is a good shop? They are the one who quoted me basically the cheapest (not by much) but they were also the only shop who took me around the facility to show me everything in their building, which I thought was very nice and confident in their facility.

Sorry......

NW NJ here..... dont know them.....

Not a problem, forgot exactly where you are located. Maybe someone in South Jersey/ philly can chime in on Rocco's.

I work at a dealership, we send stuff to body shops all the time. In my opinion, the quotes around $1500 seem reasonable to me.

see if you can find any reviews on the shops you are considering. $1500 isn't bad. if there is cancer it needs to be cut out and have new sheet metal installed. Just filling it with bondo won't cure the cancer. It has to be clean unrusted metal

I just had the bedside completely replaced on my 05 ram. My buddy did it that works at a body shop. New pannel, paint, sealer, clear, & new mopar rumble bee sticker and stripe sticker was around $1000 I paid him $500 for labor. Mine started rotting over the top of the wheel well. I also needle scaled the frame when we had the bed off and painted everything with Por15 chassis black. While the bed was off I threw in a new set of Bilstine rear shocks since they were easy to get to and mine have 80k on them. Had a spray in bedliner done as well for another $300.

 

$1500 seems in line for that job. And its common on your truck just like mine. I've been seeing many around the same year as mine and yours with the same issues. And I'm anal with keeping it clean especially during winter. When we took the bed skin off the bed structure there was a bead of body glue between the inner fender well and the bed skin. That was where it rusted because it holds water and road grit. I had to weld in some new metal in the inner wheel well also. This time we didn't use the body glue the factory used and I por15 painted the inside of the skin and the inner fender well under the skin before we welded the new one on. I also drilled three holes where it previously rusted at the lowest points in the arch so it can drain and i can clean it when I wash it.

 

DeerSlayer- I am so lucky to now have that rust issue (atleast yet). Like you I want to POR-15 my frame so badly but only issue I have is no place to take off bed while I paint the frame. I am thinking for time being to atleast crawl under bed and paint as much as I can of the frame with the POR-15 then hopefully sometime I can figure out a way of taking bed off. Question; can you post a pic of where you drilled the holes?

I took it off in my driveway and walked it into my garage with 3 guys including myself put it on two saw horses to change the bedside and weld on the new one. But if I didn't have the garage (the only reason I wanted to buy my house lol) I would have just walked it onto the back lawn and put it on horses out there.

 

I'll post where I drilled but without removing that BS glue mess they used the water is still going to have a place to sit even with the holes. Like a dam keeping all that junk stuck in there. I couldn't believe how much road grit was in there when I pulled that skin off. Mine is going in to the booth Monday for paint. I'll take a few pictures tomorrow for you.

 

Here are a few pictures I took when i took the bed off the chassis. I didn't take any after pictures but I will Monday when we pull the bed back off to wheel it into the paint booth. My frame and rear axle looks like New after I laid on the por15.