Scrape down side of car

[Moonshiner]

Get a quote from someone that does paintless dent removal local to your area, doesn't look to have gone through the paint, £50+- per panel is to be expected

Edited by Moonshiner on Sunday 14th May 19:13

[bullfis7]

Brill, cheers for the reply!

[Adamski69]

Dude! That's a b1tch!! It's quite a long dent / crease from what I can see. Some of it will PDR but not all. £50 per panel is very optimistic for that damage. The pinch near the fold in the door skin will probably not lift but 90% would come up, it's a front wing, yes? That should PDR well but again, £50 is not going to cover it unless you are a trade customer doing volume. Clay won't help anything there, its for decontaminating paint, not fixing dents or scuffs. For a complete repair to A1, Body shop and paint the side of the car. :-(

Edited by Adamski69 on Wednesday 17th May 10:05

[bullfis7]

Adamski69 said:

Dude! That's a b1tch!! It's quite a long dent / crease from what I can see. Some of it will PDR but not all. £50 per panel is very optimistic for that damage. The pinch near the fold in the door skin will probably not lift but 90% would come up, it's a front wing, yes? That should PDR well but again, £50 is not going to cover it unless you are a trade customer doing volume. Clay won't help anything there, its for decontaminating paint, not fixing dents or scuffs. For a complete repair to A1, Body shop and paint the side of the car. :-(

Edited by Adamski69 on Wednesday 17th May 10:05

Tell me about it! Yeah, apologies about the pics not being brilliant. Thanks for the info re the clay I've decided to not go and get a quote as to be honest, it doesn't look TOO obvious and I don't think it looks like £300/400+ worth of damage! But thanks for the reply!

[Abc321]

Update - I didn't bother repairing at the time, as I thought it wasn't too bad and needless expense. Can hardly see it really.

I've got 2 quotes this wek as my PCP is up in July, the first one didn't seem too keen on doing the repair and said he would go through the insurance. When I asked for a rough figure he said he could easily spend £1,000 on it.

A second firm have got back to me today and quoted £770 labour, £160 materials and £186 VAT = £1,116 total! These both seem really expensive as you can see from the pics its not overly noticeable.

[Olas]

If you damage someone else’s stuff you are morally bound to put it right.
If this doesn’t sit well with you, consider buying and owning instead of borrowing.

[Abc321]

Olas said:

If you damage someone else’s stuff you are morally bound to put it right.
If this doesn’t sit well with you, consider buying and owning instead of borrowing.

Thanks for that mate, do you feel better now?

[paintman]

Try a couple more bodyshops & see what they say.
Or just return as is.

[V8covin]

I don't know where you are but those 2 quotes are ridiculously expensive for what is an easy job for any bodyshop.
I'd be inclined to get a pdr guy/gal out as a 1st option,they could well get it good enough for the PCP inspector not to notice