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I wan in an accident yesterday in the F250

Minor front end damage. Bumper, fender, headlight and a snapped Tie-rod.
Everything else looks ok.

These are the State Farm "preferred" shops in Durham.

Johnson Collision Center

Tringle Auto Body

Johnson Body Shop


Any recommendations?

Thanks,
Keith

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2003 F-250
2004 MINI Cooper S
1993 Bovine Beater
1988 325is

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Don't know about Durham, but here are my picks:

http://www.tunstallwilliams.com/
I've used them. Friends have used them. Good place if you are spending your own money. On South Saunders street near the Harley dealer. I'd use these guys again.

Kenny Hawkins if money is no object.

I've had real good luck with Elite Auto Body in Chapel Hill. They're neither cheap or fast, but the quality of the work has been absolutely first rate.

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Karl S.
2014 Baby, 2014 House, 2013 Ford Focus ST, 2013 BMW 328i, 1994 Mercedes E320
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Karl, are you talking about the place outside of Chapel Hill on Old Greensboro Road? There's an "Elite" out there, too, anyway. I used that place once when a guy hit me in the back of my Forerunner. Looked fine when I got it, but the paint they did started peeling off about two years later. I had sold it to my parents who live in Monroe and instead of trying to take it back over there they got a family friend who has a shop basically right in their front yard to fix it.

From what I understand, the guy who owns the Elite I'm talking about used to have a tremendous reputation for restoration and the like, but he's since gone all insurance jobs and won't touch anything custom any more. I also don't think he does any of the work himself...the shop used to be behind the house and they've since torn down the house and created a much larger body shop.


--Donnie

That's the place Donnie. I don't remember the road names, but I do remember driving by University Lake on the way out there. The guy's name is Kevin. He's definitely still a car guy - completely went over an old Buick Grand National as last I spoke with him. It looked stunning (or, about as stunning as a late 1980s Buick is going to get).

I took my Suburban there when I got t-boned. Last I saw that truck - and let me tell you I did a number on that thing - it still looked great. It was not a small job, and involved welding in the B-pillar area from a donor Suburban. I'm sure someone with a better trained eye than mine could spot the damage, but I couldn't. It drove just like it did before it got hit too.

When did you have the 4-runner in? I think it was probably around 2002 or so when I took the Suburban over there.

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Karl S.
2014 Baby, 2014 House, 2013 Ford Focus ST, 2013 BMW 328i, 1994 Mercedes E320
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Yeah, same place. It would have been 2002 or 2003. Perhaps I just got unlucky.


--Donnie