I had a long scratch in the hood of my Red Line from a branch of a potted plant that blew over in a wind storm while I was parked at a hotel. You could feel it with your fingernail and I took it into a body shop. The scratch was too deep to be buffed out so it had to be sanded and the hood was repainted. The body shop did a perfect job, and the bill was $1100.
I paid only my deductible, but had to make three round trips to the body shop (40 miles one way) to get the estimate, to drop off the car and then to pick it up.
