Repair or not? - Update!

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TitanTim

Elite
As some of you know I had my little pride and joy smacked into just before Christmas :( resulting in a little denting of the drivers door.





Slightly pissed me off even more as I was planning on selling in Feb early March. I've got the Zed booked into a bodyshop next week who use Dent Devils and will see what can be done but they think its too creased for the damage to be done by PDR which means I guess a fill and respray job. If the latter I know its going to look pretty much awful as the rest of the car and paintwork is pretty much as new. I think any repair will stick out a mile.

If selling would it be better to just leave it than having it repaired and just lower the asking price to reflect the damage?

Cheers,

Tim.
 
That's nothing, a decent paint-less repairer should be able to fix that.

I had a typical door dent on mine but right over the internal brace bar so a bit of a pain, but now? All gone - no-one would know :thumbsup:

Where are you as I'd recommend him any day.
 
Give them their best shot at fill & repair but id be amazed if it wasn't noticeable at certain light :?
Couldn't really be in a worse spot for drawing the eye each time you approach the car :cry: real shame for you Tim
If you were keeping then a change of door would be the way forward
 
I thought a PDR would be pretty straighforward too but I think if its a fairly sharp crease you need to be able to get behind it which where the damage is theres no space behind the damaged area. I will see what happens or maybe try somewhere else if it can't be done by PDR. Pits I'm in Staffs.

Tim.
 
mr wilks said:
Give them their best shot at fill & repair but id be amazed if it wasn't noticeable at certain light :?
Couldn't really be in a worse spot for drawing the eye each time you approach the car :cry: real shame for you Tim
If you were keeping then a change of door would be the way forward
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Cheers for that, agree a replacement Titanium Silver door would be the only other option, I can't see a respray happening as its not going to be successful without a complete respray lol.

Would like to know what reversed into it.

Tim.
 
How can they not get behind that - is there a double skin on the door or something ? If not, surely taking the door card off along with any membrane will allow access ? That looks no worse than a bad car park ding, so I'm with the rest - get a second opinion.
 
Tim, you have to find someone who's going to do the best possible job. Surely it would bug the hell out of any prospective buyer for these to be the only marks on an otherwise mint car?

Staffordshire to the Cotswolds would not be too far for me to travel if that's the best recommendation you get.

Good luck!
 
I recently had small dent done by a trusted PDR guy on my 3 week old Mini with no access to the back and the result is 100%. I'm not sure but I think it involved glued pulling techniques.
 
Hi Tim,I agree with everyone on here.I use a dent man quite often and that would be easy for him to do.
 
Bing said:
How can they not get behind that - is there a double skin on the door or something ? If not, surely taking the door card off along with any membrane will allow access ? That looks no worse than a bad car park ding, so I'm with the rest - get a second opinion.
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Theres no box section Bing at that point, its double skinned but the space between outer and inner skin is probably only a cm or so. Its whether theres enough space to get a tool down there.

Tim.
 
If there's some space it should be possible - the tools are very slim, out of necessity. Lynchy knows what he's talking about too :wink:

Looks like thepits may have sorted you out though :thumbsup:
 
Bing said:
Looks like thepits may have sorted you out though :thumbsup:
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Well, I'm doing my best :) but my guy is local to me :thumbsup: , but unfortunately not to him :thumbsdown: - but then again, any excuse to :driving: your Z4 :lol:
 
We had much worse than that on her A4 - it was suggested to NOT change the door (Audi main dealers body shop and the other drivers insurance ) they repaired and repainted and you cannot detect a repair.

Just let them get on with It :thumbsup:
 
On the scale of life's events, 0 : 100

Where would you put a dented door?

Yes it's bloody annoying, expensive and it gets the blood pressure up but on the great scale it doesn't really register does it?Maybe I'm just getting too old to worry about it.
( I love my cars as well so it's not like I don't look after them - my zed is in the garage sheeted over with brand new pressed white cotton sheets for the winter)
 
ronk said:
On the scale of life's events, 0 : 100

Where would you put a dented door?

Yes it's bloody annoying, expensive and it gets the blood pressure up but on the great scale it doesn't really register does it?Maybe I'm just getting too old to worry about it.
( I love my cars as well so it's not like I don't look after them - my zed is in the garage sheeted over with brand new pressed white cotton sheets for the winter)
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It's not the end of the world Ronk and appreciate peeps views if it can be repaired without paint etc. As the damage occured on the hospital car park and my mum passing away the next day it's kinda a painful reminder every time I look at it. Partly why I wish to sell up :(

Tim.
 
TitanTim said:
Bing said:
How can they not get behind that - is there a double skin on the door or something ? If not, surely taking the door card off along with any membrane will allow access ? That looks no worse than a bad car park ding, so I'm with the rest - get a second opinion.
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Theres no box section Bing at that point, its double skinned but the space between outer and inner skin is probably only a cm or so. Its whether theres enough space to get a tool down there.
Tim.
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Tim, as I mentioned above I had a similar dent sorted with no tooling done on the back, get a recommended PDR to evaluate it. Mine used a glue pulling system and the result was completely undetectable on my new Mini.
The link explains the system rather than being a recommendation for the company http://www.ukdentmaster.co.uk/
 
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