Car door keyed, looking for a bodyshop in West London

[SJ997]

Unfortunately one of the doors of my 997 has been keyed. Mark is deep, catches fingernail etc, too big for SMART repair.

Looking for a well trusted shop to put it right, hopefully SW London but suggestions welcomed for anything around. If anyone has a recommendation I'd be really grateful.

I have spoken to Tom at 911V who suggested AutoBodyTechnic and I've done some searching on here but not found a definitive suggestion yet.

Thank in advance!

[Smollet]

Just had the rear bumper on my 996 resprayed by Merton Crash Repairs. I can recommend them. I have a friend who runs a showroom and he put me onto them. He uses them all the time.
https://www.carbodyrepairswimbledon.co.uk

[Thankyou4calling]

When you say it can't be smart repaired how do you know?

I only ask because mine was keyed on Friday, can't be polished out but i thought a chips away type place could do it without the need for the whole door to be done.

Scratch is a foot long.

[SJ997]

Smollet said:

Just had the rear bumper on my 996 resprayed by Merton Crash Repairs. I can recommend them. I have a friend who runs a showroom and he put me onto them. He uses them all the time.
https://www.carbodyrepairswimbledon.co.uk

Thank you, Smollet - will give them a call.

Thankyou4calling said:

When you say it can't be smart repaired how do you know?

I only ask because mine was keyed on Friday, can't be polished out but i thought a chips away type place could do it without the need for the whole door to be done.

Scratch is a foot long.

I contacted two smart repairers (one being Chips Away) and sent them photos/descriptions - they told me it couldn't be done via that method because of the location (above door handle, gets a lot of light) and it would likely need to have the door resprayed and blended into the rear-quarter panel.

My damage is about 20-25cm.

[blackmamba]

A little further away from you but I have used Chris at E&A coachworks in Wembley several times. They do a lot of work on classic and modern Porsches, great finish and very easy to deal with.

[ChrisW.]

A silly question, but if it's not penetrated the primer why bother ?

I had mine keyed some years ago and had an idea where and who ... and inwardly laughed whenever I imagined that he had hoped that he had pulled one over on me.

Come sale time, there was a lot more tidying up of sills and front PU to be done ... and I got it all done at one go. Bootiful

If we stopped bothering, they would stop doing it.

[Bieldside]

I would highly recommend Grimshaw Wake in Hampton
They’ve done amazing work for me
Ask for Dean and try and get Garrick to do the work

[GG33]

Would second the vote for Grimshaw Wake (I was their first painter about 35+ years ago). As a second option, I would suggest Premier Panel Skills in Farnham. They do all the paint for Porsche Centre Guildford. Just did a paintless dent repair on my new GTS and I really cant see where the dent was.

GG

[hoegaardenruls]

A bit further afield, but SL Restoration (http://slrestoration.co.uk/) in Crawley were excellent when my neighbour reversed into mine.

They are Porsche approved (if that is important to you), and will collect from London.

[Smollet]

SJ997 said:

Smollet said:

Just had the rear bumper on my 996 resprayed by Merton Crash Repairs. I can recommend them. I have a friend who runs a showroom and he put me onto them. He uses them all the time.
https://www.carbodyrepairswimbledon.co.uk

Thank you, Smollet - will give them a call

Let me know how you get on assuming you do.
They’ll be doing my bonnet in September

[fido]

Bump - a couple of companies mentioned above. My non-Porsche but equally loved E92 M3 needs some road-rash removed from the front bumper (maybe a respray) along with a couple of door scratches. Anyone had recent experience of the above and can point me to one of them - happy to drive out to Surrey as well.

[anonymous-user]

hoegaardenruls said:

A bit further afield, but SL Restoration (http://slrestoration.co.uk/) in Crawley were excellent when my neighbour reversed into mine.

They are Porsche approved (if that is important to you), and will collect from London.

Will cost you a small fortune and make sure the boss isn't on holiday when the work is being done! They had to redo mine after a sloppy job, failed to paint bits they should have, painted other bits they shouldn't have and there were other issues.

I will not use them again.

[ChristianW]

I've used:

https://www.eacoachworks.com/

They were recommended by Porsche Reading. Chris and the team were great.

[jakesmith]

https://cprguildford.co.uk/

Louis Wan - used to be chips away but started on his own

He does excelent work and can do SMART repairs that others can't. Very good prices & has worked on all my cars, send him a few pics and see what he says, he has high standards & is honest and if he says he can do it well that would be good enough for me

[pete]

There's a well regarded bodyshop in Langley, near Slough, called Autobody Technic, who specialise in Porsche and BMW. Not to be confused with the insurance company favourite Bodytechnics in Slough though.

http://www.autobodytechnic.com/