This pissed me off ..

[4wheels and a hitch]

Sorry you got the dent. I guess it is pretty good these days to get a repair for under a grand.

 

[TRE250]

Ooof, I had something similar happen when i forgot to lock the collar on my hitch when loading my rzr. Damn thing jumped off the ball and bucked forward...I'm not proud of myself over that.

I dodged a similar bullet 2 months ago when I was in a hurry and didn’t disconnect the safety chains. I pulled forward and the boat came forward on the jack and hit the bumper. Luckily, not a scratch.

 

[AZsurveyor]

If you could get the dent mostly popped out, you'd be surprised by how much improvement you'd see by just filling the scratch with touch up paint and then wet sand it and hit it with some 2-step polishing compound.

I had a pretty nasty scratch on the door of my old F150 (Tuxedo black metalic), carelessly stacked some t-posts in the garage and one fell over and gouged the driver's side door. Balked at the cost to re-spray basically the whole driver's side of the truck, so I got some decent touch up paint, cleaned/prepped the area, and heaily laid in the paint to fully fill the scratch (to where it looked more like a paint run rather than a scratch), let it cure, and then got a block and some very fine grit sandpaper and wet sanded it flush followed by a quick polish to remove the sanding marks. In the right light you could still see it since the touch up paint didnt perfectly match but it held for the 3-4 years I had the truck before selling it.

This is on your tailgate so way less visible, and Iconic Silver should be a lot easier to match/blend than Tuxedo black (or any other dark metallic for that matter).

You made this sound easy.

I think part of the complexity is tri-coat on some of these colors, not sure on an Iconic Silver?

 

[Godzilla/Tremornator]

how hard can it be to pop a dent out ? IDK but for 7 Bengi's at the dealer,

I'd try it myself first

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you're forgetting the lightning

crazy
that's where the magic happens

 

[Skyguy]

Big bummer.
My tailgate looks like shit now that its dimpled on the bottom from opening enough times on snow/ice/dirt on top of the bumper. Then I cut a shallow kerf with my saw in the corner and now, well, it is what it is. I like whoever said the flatbed comment!