Will this sill dent pull out?

[eltawater]

Swmbo has managed to have a disagreement with a car park ramp kerb this morning, and pushed in a dent on the sill of her Mazda 3.

Does anyone know whether this would be easy to pull out please?

[eltawater]

Thank you both for your wise words. The wound hasn't caused any holes in the metal so hopefully rust won't become an issue. I suppose my main concern was whether it would cause any issues for the MOT which is due in a few months.

Will ring up a few bodyshops and dent repairers next week in the Bedfordshire area.

Many thanks!

[eltawater]

Thanks again everyone, reassuring to know that it shouldn't pose any problems for the MOT.

Paul thanks for the recommendation, that's not too far from us so hopefully we should be able to drop by and let them have a look at it.

[eltawater]

So just to round this one off, we took the car to VW Panels in Bedford who have quoted £450 and 3 days to pull out the dent. Quite a bit more than I was expecting! I spied on the initial appraisal form the term "dog leg", not quite sure what it means but the gent did mention that there would need to be ramping and welding involved.

We also asked our local MOT-only place for an opinion and they have concurred with the collective wisdom here that as there are no sharp edges or evidence of rot, it should pose no issues for the MOT test.

With that in mind, we're probably just going to leave it as it's not worth spending ~8% of the value of the car to resolve it, only to have someone else open a car door into it in the future.

Thanks again everyone for the advice.

[eltawater]

Sadly we were reeling a bit from quote to ask for a technical explanation. My fuzzy memory is of the words "hot weld" being used.