Colision Body Panel Fit Specifications

Hi all, please help me.

My 2006 pristine Prius was hit over the rear wheel/door by someone running a red light.

Repairs are reasonably well executed by Toyota dealership but I had to STRONGLY insist on new components and point out that Toyota Corporate web site will only honor warranty on non salvage parts - the Toyota shop was going to use salvage parts in clear violation of Toyota corporate statements on toyota.com. What I mean by reasonobly well is my 80 year old dad would have been happy with work - but paint overspray, clear coat bubling and a "new" rear door replacement which appears to come from New Orleans based on apparent rust bubling...

Well the lower 10 inches under/behind the driver side rear door juts out about a 1/2 inch at the door edge and starts 4 inches forward from there. When i picked up the car on Friday the toyota body shop manager said they could simply align the door ( i dont see how physics could reform the door to the odd contour) - but i clearly see the door is aligned except for the bottom 10 inches where they seem to have not cleaned the pillar frame to correctly match the rear body panel to as new condition and cheeped out by tacking/gluing/welding over the bottom door frame.

Honestly two things I am concerned about are resale value and wind noise on the highway and I did let them know up front my quality standards and pointed out the need to replace the centar pillar since it mated to the rear panel at the door edge. No doubt I checked replacement parts and did speak to the shop manager that this component needed to be replaced with new parts. They didnt wreck my car but they agreed to fix to "as new" and "under warranty" conditions.

The Toyota repair shop agreed to "make right" this repair defect and any other items noted over the weekend - they suggested a door alignment would make me happy, but my eye tells me its aligned except for the mis-aplied lower section. The car goes goes back in to shop on Monday.

Does anyone have a body fit tolerance specification they can post or email me? What i am looking for is to quote a reference tollerance of ___ milimeters and insist it be done correctly.

If you can't post the spec I still want to know the tolerance numbers and then I can insist they photocopy the servce manual page __ to make me ok with accepting the repairs within said tolerance.

Thanks in advance !!!

 

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Any comments of how "crappy' repair was will help with dimiished value claim. Unfortnately dimished value was struck down in satate of az.. So this is why repairs need to be enforced to a detail level. Sorry to push on repair shop but lengthy detialed conversations about body panels needeing to be replaced was conducted prior to them bending over to insurance co. Other shops willing to do work right were an option - they said they would do it correctly.

 

Conclusion - they fixed the car to my high standards.

I cant point at any issue now. When I returned the car and itemized the hit list they did gracefully appologize on not meeting their own quality standards, they supplied a rental car, and they did make 100% of the writeups right.

Very pleased as acan be in the end.