Bodywork Repair Costs

OUCH!!!

Although, from the image, it might have been worse. They replaced both doors? That would have been higher here, and insurance might have covered it, but less a deductible.

Don't let it put you off the car. When my wife got her Lancer 10 years ago, she was in the grocery store parking lot and a kid was collecting carts (you call them 'buggies' ? ) and they got away from her, ran right into the passenger side rear door of my wife's car (with less than 400 miles on the odometer) and put a nice crease almost the entire length of the door. The girl was apologetic to the extreme and the store too full responsibility, covered the repair and you really couldn't tell anything had ever been repaired when done. Still, I don't think my wife looked at the car as "new" after that took the bloom off the rose, as it were.

Just had the windshield replaced on mine. I had to use dealership shop, no auto-glass shop could even buy the glass, at least not in a timely manner.
2-3 hours were the estimated times from the auto-glass shops. I knew it would be about 3 because sensors had to be checked and aligned if needed.
All irrelevant since I had to go to the dealership shop. After taking photos they told me 4.5 hours. I was none too happy with that but accepted it. Then they wanted the car for 24 hours due to waiting for insurance to accept. I said no. When you get the response from insurance call me to schedule a time. (this was a Thursday) Monday, finally get a call. *rolls eyes* Scheduled for Wednesday. We get there at 9am as scheduled. Takes 15 minutes to complete paperwork. Then he said return at 4pm. WTF!! You said 4.5 hours. Now he is saying 6 hours. 3 hours for replacement and 3 hours drying time. I have already had bad experiences with this shop, but this had me just short of leaving.
Now I am debating trading it in or ditching the warranty so I don't have to deal with this place anymore.

I have the 3 year service plan for my Eclipse Cross, which I also had on my previous ASX. Bought the EC from the same dealer as the ASX and so far have found them to be very good with no issues arising to date.
My car is due its next service in May, so will see how things go then.
Its a great pity that a dealerships poor management standards, can ruin the reputation and owner experience of a car, which has given good service, but all this can be easily upset by a bad dealer attitude in handling problems which may arise from time to time. They seem to forget the old saying "A customer is always right, even when he/she is wrong".
Never fail to report directly back to Mitsubishi any bad level of service, to allow the manufactures dealer staff to take the appropriate action that may be required.
Likewise it is only fair to also report a good service experience from a dealer, to the manufacturer concerned.
A Dealership on top of its game, should be able to turn a bad experience into a good one.

Sorry to hear this that really sucks. Some dealers can be dirty.

We purchase all our Mitsubishis at Renn Kirby Mitsubishi in Frederick MD then have them serviced at Five Star Mitsubishi in Altoona PA. Renn Kirby has the best prices around (1.5 hr drive) as we got around $7,000.00 off both our loaded Eclipse Cross SEL’s and our sales guy is great. Then we have all our Mitsubishis serviced at Five Star Mitsubishi (1 hr away) and their Service Department is amazing and give us a car to go shopping in each time we go for our oil change. We pay $42.00 with tax for our 0W20 Synthetic Oil Change, Filter Change, Tire Rotation, Fill Any Fluids, Match Up Tire Pressures, Hand Car Wash and Wheel Cleaning and a 27 Point Inspection with Multi Page Print Out. They have also installed multiple oem Mitsubishi Accessories over the years at super low rates for us. They are awesome at Five Star!

I hate hearing about these bad Mitsubishi dealers out there because there are good ones and it sucks you had to deal with that type a dealer. We have owned several Mitsubishis all purchased new: 2015 Mirage ES, 2016 Outlander Sport GT AWC, 2017 Mirage G4 SE, and we now own 2 Eclipse Cross SEL’s with S-AWC and the Touring Package in Red Diamond & Octane Blue.

Best of luck!