Any good shops in the SD area that you guys recommend?

theres always MBZ of SD and theres AMATOS, paul amato is a crook......... but they do excellent work....... and u definently pay the price for it

i recommend...Spectrum Collision, they are located in Irvine, California...but they are the only BMW CERTIFIED Body shop repair in Orange county.

Look into Stroyer Brothers (http://yp.superpages.com/listings.phtml?SRC=msn&STYPE=S&C=&N=Stroyer&T=Escondido&S=CA&PP=N&Search=Find+It) in Escondido. They're suppose to be very good; Brecht BMW sent their cars there before opening their own body shop. You might want to PM Jim Powell as well - he recently had one of his cars sprayed.