Advice on dent and paint repair

pobber1

I got a new car a few weeks and already someone has dented the door and marked the paint (car park). They were very nice and didn't leave any details, nothing on the CCTV either.

Anyway I'm considering repair options. There seems to be three options available:
1. Take the dent out and put a paint blob on the marked section.
2. Take out the dent and respray the entire door and blend into the wing.
3. Just leave it

1. I'm wondering if the blob can be buffed to make it less obvious? I'm being told that can't be done.
2. The paint damage is small (5mm x 2mm), so respraying the entire panel seems excessive.

Does anyone have any experience getting work like this done and what did you do?

Thanks.

snickers

pobber1 wrote: »

I got a new car a few weeks and already someone has dented the door and marked the paint (car park). They were very nice and didn't leave any details, nothing on the CCTV either.

Anyway I'm considering repair options. There seems to be three options available:
1. Take the dent out and put a paint blob on the marked section.
2. Take out the dent and respray the entire door and blend into the wing.
3. Just leave it

1. I'm wondering if the blob can be buffed to make it less obvious? I'm being told that can't be done.
2. The paint damage is small (5mm x 2mm), so respraying the entire panel seems excessive.

Does anyone have any experience getting work like this done and what did you do?

Thanks.

Do you mean a brand new car or new to you second hand car if it’s second hand you may be able to find a door in a breakers yard obviously depending on how popular the make model and color of the car if it’s brand new and you do decide to get resprayed be sure to take a pic of the small dent and paint missing so you can show anyone if your selling in the future that it wasn’t a big crash repair .You could probably get that dent pulled and touched up for around a 100 euro where as a full respray of that side of the car could be anywhere between 500 and 1000 so would depend on how new the car was as to wether it’s worth going to all that trouble or not there is a few places in Dublin not sure where in the country you are so don’t know if it helps that specialize in small damage like that without respraying the whole panel there’s one called trim tech in swords I’ve never used them so cannot comment on there work.

pobber1

Thanks.

It's a brand new car.

I was quoted €120 (main dealer) to have to dent pulled and the paint touched up
and €380 (independent repair shop) to have the dent pulled, panel resprayed and wing blended.

snickers

pobber1 wrote: »

Thanks.

It's a brand new car.

I was quoted €120 (main dealer) to have to dent pulled and the paint touched up
and €380 (independent repair shop) to have the dent pulled, panel resprayed and wing blended.

380 is quite reasonable I presume it’s a cash price the only thing I will say is whenever you get a panel pulled and resprayed no matter how good a job when the car is shiny clean and the sun is out it will be noticeable that it’s not original paint so why don’t you try the 120 job and see how it looks if you still are not happy bite the bullet and do the 380 job I know what it’s like you want to keep your new car looking new but dents chips and scratches are inevitable so it’s not gonna stay new forever.

pobber1

snickers wrote: »

380 is quite reasonable I presume it’s a cash price the only thing I will say is whenever you get a panel pulled and resprayed no matter how good a job when the car is shiny clean and the sun is out it will be noticeable that it’s not original paint so why don’t you try the 120 job and see how it looks if you still are not happy bite the bullet and do the 380 job I know what it’s like you want to keep your new car looking new but dents chips and scratches are inevitable so it’s not gonna stay new forever.

Yeah, I'm leaning that way. I've had panels done before and it never matches 100%.

I was hoping the paint blob could be buffed to help it blend in, I'm sure I've seen that done before.

Cheers.

snickers

pobber1 wrote: »

Yeah, I'm leaning that way. I've had panels done before and it never matches 100%.

I was hoping the paint blob could be buffed to help it blend in, I'm sure I've seen that done before.

Cheers.

All depends on who does the touch up area should be primed painted and lacquered to get a good result takes a steady hand on a small area but not impossible to get a good result. If it makes you feel any better I actually dented my own car getting out of someone else’s car who had parked beside mine and the dent was on a line so I couldn’t get dent removal done I had to get it filled and painted that was 3 years ago and now the isopon filler that was put in the door has cracked and it looks **** I’m just going to hold out for a straight door from a breakersyard sick i was 🀬

L-M

pobber1 wrote: »

Thanks.

It's a brand new car.

I was quoted €120 (main dealer) to have to dent pulled and the paint touched up
and €380 (independent repair shop) to have the dent pulled, panel resprayed and wing blended.

Get the the dent done and touch up. You’ll never notice it. Do not get the door painted. It’ll unfortunately be the first of many dents.

Dia_Anseo

What car is it?

What section of the door?

FYI get a motion detected dash cam.
I had a bonnet scrated or rather scribbled on what looked like a child when I had it parked in an apartment complex near a play ground. Unfortunately no dash cam.

Another occasion I had a bumper slightly scratched by a tow truck that incorrectly towed my the car, I wasn't there at time but the dash cam proved to their insurance to pay 980 euro for new bumper, oddly the car company settled themselves via bank transfer.

Sorry about the damage, people are *****!

pobber1

Dia_Anseo wrote: »

What car is it?

What section of the door?

FYI get a motion detected dash cam.
I had a bonnet scrated or rather scribbled on what looked like a child when I had it parked in an apartment complex near a play ground. Unfortunately no dash cam.

Another occasion I had a bumper slightly scratched by a tow truck that incorrectly towed my the car, I wasn't there at time but the dash cam proved to their insurance to pay 980 euro for new bumper, oddly the car company settled themselves via bank transfer.

Sorry about the damage, people are *****!

It's the top section of the drivers door under the wing mirror. I wouldn't mind as much if it was on the passenger side as I wouldn't have to look at it every time I get in the car!

Camera sounds like a good idea.

pobber1

I seen a few videos online of people wet sanding paint repair blobs and then removing the scratches using a buffer.

The dealer is telling me they won't buff the paint blob which seems odd.

I'm wondering if another paint repair place would be willing to do it.

L-M

pobber1 wrote: »

I seen a few videos online of people wet sanding paint repair blobs and then removing the scratches using a buffer.

The dealer is telling me they won't buff the paint blob which seems odd.

I'm wondering if another paint repair place would be willing to do it.

You can’t wet sand that size of a repair job. A wet sand is only for a scratch that has penetrated the laquer but not down to the bare paint.

If you wet sanded that you’d ruin you door and the paint would just come off again.

corks finest

Reasonable quote from a main dealer

pobber1

corks finest wrote: »

Reasonable quote from a main dealer

Yeah, I was surprised too.

creedp

Limerick man wrote: »

Get the the dent done and touch up. You’ll never notice it. Do not get the door painted. It’ll unfortunately be the first of many dents.

That would be my attitude too. I was parked on Merrion Sq last Friday night and returned to the car to find some salt of the earth had driven his shoe through my boot door. I've no intention of spending money fixing it properly to give another such scumbag the opportunity to rinse and repeat.

pobber1

All fixed. Got the dent repaired and the paint touched up. Top job, barely noticeable.

Order has been restored : )