Side Gig Downtime - Body Shop

After 60,000 miles delivering groceries over last 2 years (35k on my 2016 Prius 4), I've got some downtime as the Coronavirus concern hits too close to home. Just getting too eerie spending much time in grocery stores.

Over just the past 12 months, my 2016 has accumulated 7-8 parking lot dings and small dents, and most recently a rear quarter panel sideswipe, as I and another driver backed up at exactly the same time. So I dropped my black beauty off yesterday for the dings/dents, sideswipe, as well as a hood repaint due to numerous rock-to-hood impacts. Sometimes you just gotta kick back and reboot. Hope she turns out like new!

 

Cash money $1,300. Whole car would have been $3k, really hard to justify. Is actually both rear quarter panels, multiple PDRs, and the front hood.

 

Yup, thanks Chris. Body shop is using the PDR guy for 3 on driver’s side rear door, one on drivers front quarter panel. Two rear wheel well dents (r&l sides) are right on the seam, can’t be done via paintless. Hood repaint my call totally.

People in grocery lots aren’t concerned when they open doors. I was sitting in my Prius earlier in the week when pickup pulled up, opened door and banged my mirror (no damage tho). Unbelievable.

 

Well, very happy with my paint and dent repair.

Sometimes you are humbled by other people's challenges. A few days before my repair, my local body shop's painter and his wife's home was destroyed by a gas leak. This is just a few blocks from home. They survived but have a long recovery road ahead of them. I don't know if this is allowed or not, but this link will get to the Facebook page of the body shop and the story of one of their own. If not, search on Millhouse autobody on Facebook.

Millhouse Auto Body, INC - Kenosha | Facebook

 

Pay is not bad for a retiree. Probably similar to Uber, but you need pick the groceries, and deliver. And hope you don't get too many of the multiple cases of water on 3rd floor with no elevator. But your $20 tip was I am sure greatly appreciated. Especially now as the shoppers-delivery people are getting worn out and exposed quite a bit. I am backing down for a while as it is hard to avoid people in the store. Doing only prescription deliveries from the drive through for the next few weeks.