Cost to repair this small ding?

[paulguitar]

Hello everyone.

I recently bought an ND MX5 in Soul Red. There is a small ding in the nearside rear wing. Just wondering what this might cost to get done properly, it's been bodged a bit:

[paulguitar]

Been quoted £1,200.

[DaveF-SkinnysAutos]

I'm a painter by trade, why did you buy a Soul Red car?!?!

Thats one of the hardest colours of any out there to blend, its a three stage, which many cars are nowadays, but both the ground coat and the translucent reds are horrible on this particular colour!

Expect stupid quotes as no one will want to do it!!

If it wasn't Soul Red I would expect quotes around £500, and keeping it to just that rear quarter, but as I say, you will find bodyshops may over quote to avoid it, unless they haven't experienced it before?! I'm not over exaggerating in saying that some bodyshops will want to paint the entire side to have enough room to try to blend it. It feels crazy saying it but you may find quotes of up to £2000 for that small dink just because of how hard it is to match and blend

I think you may have to try to live with it!

[thebraketester]

A very skilled PDR tech I would have thought could make that a lot less obvious.

[paul_c123]

thebraketester said:

A very skilled PDR tech I would have thought could make that a lot less obvious.

It looks like the paint is chipped (it is hard to tell from the pic though), in which case PDR won't work. Definitely not with glue pulling. It may be possible to get a tool behind and massage it out to 'near' where it should be but there will always be the paint defect there.

[bennno]

thebraketester said:

A very skilled PDR tech I would have thought could make that a lot less obvious.

I’d agree and would start there.