I skip the scratches and go straight to dents, nothing near the OP though. No pics but details below...

Dent #1: Hit a snow burried 18" tall concrete post in a parking lot while on a beer run. Damaged only the bumper on the passenger side. I'm debating on pounding it out, get the bumper line-x'ed and buy a black XL grille/surround and black out the truck.

Dent #2: While unloading my atv out of the back of my truck, I swung the tie down over the bed rail, didn't have enough slack in it and the metal end of the tie down left a nice straight lined ding right above the driver side wheel well. Probably won't fix, not very noticeable...

 

Ouch, that'll make your heart sink.

Stone chip 30 miles from the dealer on pickup.

2 weeks ago while trying out my new 5th wheel hitch I forgot to release the lock pin.
This pin allows the latch to lock once engaged. New procedure for me.

As I did my hitch test (applying the trailer brakes) I didn't pay attention to how much I moved forward. There was no trailer drop because I keep the jacks down for that test.

Fortunately all I damaged was teh top plastic cover on the tailgate step. Only $40 but no one keeps that in stock - and there are two different numbers fo r2011's

 

Rock chip on mine on the front right fender. UGH. Need some touch up I guess.

 

Ouch. The first one always hurts, especially that soon off the dealer's lot.

My condolences, although it makes me feel a tad better about the damage a hit-and-run driver did to mine back in January:



Yeah, I know, it's nowhere near as bad as your tailgate, but it's right there where I see it everytime I get in/out of the truck, and I'm a whiner anyway.

Note though, how the perp managed to carry the scratch and dent onto the cab, and even a scratch on the door for maximum effect and cost of repair.

And yeah, I spilled diesel purposely, in an effort to hide the damage.

Joe

 

A few weeks ago I was backing up my truck into the garage which is a very tight squeeze. I hit a dry wall corner with the rear driver side bed of truck. There was a white spot about three inches in diameter on my paint. Most of it came off but I still felt terrible. I waxed my truck this weekend and now you cannot see any damage at all. Take your time when backing a $50K truck!

 

Great stories guys keep em coming.

On a side note. My body guy is hooking me up $470 for a new gate and paint.
The stealership I bought the truck from wanted $450 for just the gate no paint or switching stuff over.

 

That's a great deal. I thought the part alone would be way more expensive than that. Take it and run

 

Yeah, what maistroyoda said. Great deal.

Beats the estimate for the scratch and dent repair on mine (including repainting the whole freakin' rear quarter of the truck) by almost a grand (and that was the low estimate), even though yours looks a lot worse.


Joe

 

Ouch on the tailgate. I am most impressed with the Ford emblem. All that damage and it looks like it didn’t even receive a scratch. Ford tough emblem.

 

$470 - Great price

Backed into 5er with my 2000 F250 and It cost $1200 plus to repace the tailgate.

 

I hope you shot the cat!

 

There is some history with the body shop. My 05 HD edition got stolen from my driveway and recovered in Mexico. It came back relatively unscathed except there were scratches and dents everywhere. He billed my insurance almost 12K to fix it and replace my hitch. He made his chunk of change off me.

He hooked me up with his Ford parts guy who gave me the gate at wholesale minus and is going to have his body guy paint it off the clock and I will pay him $200 cash.

 

The safety chains were hooked up and stopped the trailer before it got to the emblem.

When it happened I was thinking $1200-$1500

I know I would have.

 

Ouch!!! I know how much a tailgate costs. Mine was stolen off my truck after owning it for a few weeks. It was $4,200 after paint. Luckily, I have a $100 deductible.

 

I have more problems now that I have put safety chains on all my trailers. When you don't have chains, you make darn sure the ball is latched!