A deer ran into the side of my car a couple months ago and smashed the passenger side mirror to pieces, and also put a sizable dent in the rear passenger side door. Everything was still perfectly functional (sans mirror) but the quotes I was getting to “fix” the car were $2300 and up!
Even to replace the mirror (bare minimum to pass inspection) they were quoting $500+ between parts and labor.
Now I admit that I got extremely lucky in this scenario, as I was prepared to only replace the mirror and didn’t care what color it ended up being...
But I stopped by my local scrap yard and walked out with a perfect condition fully functional mirror assembly AND an entire new rear door... in the same model year and same body color as my car... for a grand total of $45.90.
So far I’ve installed the mirror - the door will be a little more involved since it requires getting the wiring run in there, but I don’t consider myself handy at all and I was able to pull this off - and save a metric ton of money.
July 29, 2018 at 12:01PM
