Door panel dent

L5

Hi, wondering would anyone in the know guess how much this might be to repair?
It's on the drivers side door , golf 2002 silver.
Door swung open when reversing and hit off a pole
Thanks

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sean1141

L5 wrote: »

Hi, wondering would anyone in the know guess how much this might be to repair?
It's on the drivers side door , golf 2002 silver.
Door swung open when reversing and hit off a pole
Thanks

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how fussy are you? you could do a reasonable job on it yourself if you were not fussy! another option would be to get a door from a breakers yard. silver mk4 golfs were everywhere so they cant be hard to find. im not sure if thete was one or two silvers in the mk4 range but your paint code will be on the data sticker in the boot beside the spare wheel.

2012 Rio

All depends on how perfect a finish you want. If your anyway handy with a hammer and some body filler and a few cans of paint you could do a reasonable job for €60. Get a body sho to do a job on it will be 200ish. Or else just keep an eye on the scrappy's for a new door.

If it were mine, well 2002 is not far off life expired anyway so i'd be happy with a good DIY job.

amber2

Is it closing properly i.e. are the hinges damaged. Don't touch it with a can of paint and a bucket of fillers if you know nothing about it as a panel beater would be hard pressed to get a good finish on that type of paint as its metallic. Job would cost probably in the region of €300 just look out for a second hand silver door imo.

Owen

2012 Rio wrote: »

All depends on how perfect a finish you want. If your anyway handy with a hammer and some body filler and a few cans of paint you could do a reasonable job for €60. Get a body sho to do a job on it will be 200ish. Or else just keep an eye on the scrappy's for a new door.

If it were mine, well 2002 is not far off life expired anyway so i'd be happy with a good DIY job.

Jesus Wept.

Don't do it yourself, it'll be a waste of your time, 60 Euro, and your car will look like a turd. A bodyshop will charge significantly more than 200 Euro too, where the damage is, it meets the quarter panel so the quarter panel will have to be blown in to make the repair seamless. I'd expect the true figure to be somewhere between 4-500 Euro.

2012 Rio

Yeah, well it all depends on how good of a finish you want. Of course you could go all out and spend 500 for a job that is totally indistinguishable from the sorrounding paintwork. But is it really worth it on a 10 yr old car?200 should get you a reasonable finish. So what if there's a slight imperfection where the two sections meet. sure who'll be looking anyway, especially down that low.

Owen

Terrible terrible advice. It might just be a 'ten year old car', but Golf's still make decent money when it comes to sell it. Having a half assed job done it it's not only going to ruin the look of the car, but it'll be a waste of the money spent on doing the job too.

2012 Rio

OK fair enough. I guess we just look at thing differently. I'm not really into the cosmetics side of things.
Rough straighten out with a few flakes of a hammer would satisfy me perfectly.:D:D:D

Owen

And the inevitable rust from that sort of job would probably satisfy you too ...

L5

Thanks for all the advice. Not a job I'd attempt myself with a hammer, it would end up looking like that car on father ted! I've priced a one from a scrappy in the uk for 78 pounds delivered so I'm thinking I'll go down this route when I get around to it. No shortage of them in the uk I'd imagine

C3P0

L5 wrote: »

Thanks for all the advice. Not a job I'd attempt myself with a hammer, it would end up looking like that car on father ted! I've priced a one from a scrappy in the uk for 78 pounds delivered so I'm thinking I'll go down this route when I get around to it. No shortage of them in the uk I'd imagine

When someone mentioned "hammer", I thought of Fr. Ted too!

£78 sounds alright, I'm looking for a door for my own, did a request on breakeryard.com, are there other sites to check?

L5

C3P0 wrote: »

When someone mentioned "hammer", I thought of Fr. Ted too!

£78 sounds alright, I'm looking for a door for my own, did a request on breakeryard.com, are there other sites to check?

Ended up using findapart.ie got replies from 4 breakers around the country, got a door (no glass) for 100 euro delivered.