Where I'm from there's a tired old joke, the punchline of which is that the mechanic calls back that the car will be ready in three weeks. Only issue being - th

Where I'm from there's a tired old joke, the punchline of which is that the mechanic calls back that the car will be ready in three weeks. Only issue being - the customer came in with a piece of bent aluminium roofing sheet. My point is that mechanics deal with more challenging problems on a daily basis and it's actually easier to have one bent out of shape piece that costs X, instead of several pieces forming the same section of the car, each bent out of shape in a cascade of damage and costing e.g. 0.6X each. Personally I paid the most for replacing parts that contained electronics - like a rear bumper with parking sensors. A name-brand parking sensor can go for as much as a second-hand quarter panel.