VW body work

coldfire1x

Does VW Showrooms / Garages do body work?

My 2 year VW Golf bumped on the drivers door by someone in my apartment car park while my car was parked. Really pissed, my car was spotless :mad::(

Disappointed to say the least.

Now looking to get this fixed with the best option available.

If the authorized garages do body work that will be my first preference before going somewhere else. If they dont do it, next best option available?

Any idea?

Neilw

Main dealers just farm out bodywork to independent bodyshops, easier to just go direct to one of them yourself.

Having said that, the dent above could probably be removed by paintless dent removal.
Far cheaper and less chance of a poor job being done.

CosmicSmash

I'd try somewhere that does paintless dent removal if the surface of the paint isn't broken. It would be a lot cheaper than a body shop and it would keep your car more original.

dar_cool

As above painless dent repair is the way to go with that dent unless there is scratches but doesn't look like it is. Should cost under 100 aswell

coldfire1x

Any recommendation for independent bodyshops?

coldfire1x

Like this?

https://www.chipsaway.ie/local-car-body-repairs/

mickdw

Yep. Give them a shout. The guys that do this paintless dent work are almost magicians. You can imagine someone working out a rounded dent but some of the damage they can repair is crazy.
Id certainly try paintless before going to a bodyshop.

For your info, some main vw dealers have their own body shops.

colm_mcm

Do chipsaway do PDR or just SMART repairs?

mickdw

They are PDR listed in there small dents section of website.

testarossa40

coldfire1x wrote: »

Any recommendation for independent bodyshops?

Depending where you're located, I'd happily recommend:

http://www.thedenteraser.ie/page/15/home/l2/

Used him last year for a similar ding on mine and he did an excellent job.

theintern

Dentmaster in Galway will have that out in no time. Like said before, they're practically magic.

Western Motors VW do have a bodyshop I think? They definitely advertise that they do. Still, if the PDR guy can't fix it, Frank Byrnes does excellent work. Or I've heard good things about G&P crash repairs in Liosban.

Stallingrad

Was not impressed by Chipsaway, they wanted my car to be left into Opel Sandyford for the day. Daft.

Used a guy who does a lot of the main dealer work and was away within the hour.

testarossa40

Stallingrad wrote: »

Was not impressed by Chipsaway, they wanted my car to be left into Opel Sandyford for the day. Daft.

Yeah, they've a wierd setup - tried them too last year and were impossible to find based on their published Sandyford address - in the end it was some very conversation-averse guy in a Peugeot dealership service dept (no "Chipsaway" branding anywhere) who'd take photos, notes, & email address, and then promise to quote the next day.


If you wanted to get the work done, you'd have to leave the car back there, then someone else would come along to collect it and drive it to Soroghan's in Castleknock where the work would actually be done and drop it back to Sandyford to be collected again.


All sorts of alarm bells about that kind of setup - not least somebody unknown to me driving my car practically the length of county Dublin...

Stallingrad

testarossa40 wrote: »

Yeah, they've a wierd setup - tried them too last year and were impossible to find based on their published Sandyford address - in the end it was some very conversation-averse guy in a Peugeot dealership service dept (no "Chipsaway" branding anywhere) who'd take photos, notes, & email address, and then promise to quote the next day.


If you wanted to get the work done, you'd have to leave the car back there, then someone else would come along to collect it and drive it to Soroghan's in Castleknock where the work would actually be done and drop it back to Sandyford to be collected again.


All sorts of alarm bells about that kind of setup - not least somebody unknown to me driving my car practically the length of county Dublin...

That was it exactly, I'd forgotten how convoluted the whole thing was, absolute nonsense!

coldfire1x

Stallingrad wrote: »

Was not impressed by Chipsaway, they wanted my car to be left into Opel Sandyford for the day. Daft.

Used a guy who does a lot of the main dealer work and was away within the hour.

They want the car at their Navan Road facility for a day.

Unit 3 Phoenix Industrial Estate
Castleknock
Navan Road
Dublin 15

mickdw

coldfire1x wrote: »

They want the car at their Navan Road facility for a day.

Unit 3 Phoenix Industrial Estate
Castleknock
Navan Road
Dublin 15

I dont see the issue with this. Sure the work can be done at your home but with weather, schedules would go to crap and end up with alot of annoyed customers.
Leave it in and consider it a faster job than a bodyshop who would need to fill and paint it.

TheBoyConor

I'd wonder is it worth the bother of fixing a dent like that. It is of no consequence and i'd be inclined to put it down to wear and tear.
As they age, cars pick up dents and scratches and so on.

you could pay 100 to fix this, and then the next week there will be a scratch on the other door.

I guarantee you, nobody notices this half as much as you do.

Anyway, the majority of Irish cars are covered in crap most of the time anyway so unless your car is always washed, it'll be more or less invisible.

coldfire1x

I understand your point. However its on the drivers door, so every time I go out to use the car, I invariably see the dent while opening the door. Once you know its there, you just see it. I know people who dont know about it, will probably not notice it.

The car is just about 2 year old and there's no mark on the car apart from that.

With my old car which was 7-8 years old, I wouldn't have bothered about it.

testarossa40

coldfire1x wrote: »

I understand your point. However its on the drivers door, so every time I go out to use the car, I invariably see the dent while opening the door. Once you know its there, you just see it. I know people who dont know about it, will probably not notice it.

The car is just about 2 year old and there's no mark on the car apart from that.

With my old car which was 7-8 years old, I wouldn't have bothered about it.

Exactly this - no need to justify...

Stallingrad

TheBoyConor wrote: »

I guarantee you, nobody notices this half as much as you do.

100% why it should be sorted!