Pulling out dents

[Chris71]

Does anyone here have experience of using one of the dent repair places. Do you reckon they could take care of this?



Any idea how much I'd be looking at to get that looking more or less as new (panels straightened out and paint re-touched)? It would be for a daily runaround not a show car.

[*Al*]

Paint shop will be your best option, bumper needs work anyway.

[MarsellusWallace]

A dent man would struggle doing that Im afraid to say-looks like a bodyshop job.Done reasonably well i'd say circa £250

[Chris71]

Bump for the weekday crowd!

Any more thoughts?

Bear in mind, being Alfa paint the red probably isn't quite the same shade as it left the factory with, so would that make colour matching a pain or can they mix it to the right shade or something?

[ikarl]

Surely a second hand wing and bumper off of ebay / members forum would be the best bet if you can find the right colour?

I done it recently and managed to get an exact matched wing (was surprisingly easy to change)for £40!

Karl

[Chris71]

ikarl]Surely a second hand wing and bumper off of ebay / members forum would be the best bet [b said:

if you can find the right colour?[b]

Possibly, but therein lies the problem. That shade of red is notorious for fading in the sunlight and even if this one is still factory fresh - and it does look fairly red - I might have a job finding another to the same standard.

It's a potential purchase rather than a current car, too, so it's probably safest to assume a worst case scenario.

[NISaxoVTR]

Some paint shops have machines (spectrophotometer) that they can set on the car to gauge the colour of the paint rather than just mixing it to a code. I would t-cut the car to get it as red as it can be and buy/paint a new wing, the amount of time spent repairing that one wouldn't be worth it.

[ambuletz]

had a dent on my door where someone kicked it. Used a suction pad from one of those £1 in-car fans. job done. not advisable though (depends highly on how big/small the dent is)

Edited by ambuletz on Monday 22 August 13:20

[minicab]

A good session with a wet mop and cutting compound will get the paint factory fresh again, and make the colour match easier.

The car will look superb too