Depends if the Dealership done a check of the bodywork and have marked anything down on any tick (lie) sheet or not then of course it could as you say have happened in their car park or since leaving them. In reality most probable outcome might be that it's up to you whether you live with it or just do what they would do and pay a mobile dent guy/person to take the dent out. Sod's Law if you pay to have it removed you'll get another dent on another (or same panel) sometime later. Another downside of fashion is very dark colour cars do tent to show up these things more especially when clean and polished. My wife had a very big dent put in the rear panel of her two-door car on the driver's side from a hit and p1ss off carpark incident, I said to forget about it ubtil it got hit again or when she was going to change car. About 18 months later she'd just had the car serviced at the Dealership and once again they had offered to do the work and given her a very good price quote (bodyshop must have been short of work) and she said she was having it done as she saw the dent everytime she got in the car as it was on the drivers said. Like an idiot I joked she'd probably get a dent on the repaired and paint panel within a couple of days, doh! She collected it at a lunchtime and on return home that night a face like thunder, sure enough small door opening dent on the same panel within hours of her collecting the car. I, unusually, wisely said nothing at the time. IIRC the small dent was still there when she got rid of that car. Last century I picked up a brand new car and within hours of first collecting that car someone open their car door on to it, my wife was with me at the time so knew these things can happen but that was my car and not hers so probably that made the difference. I thought about saying something to the man that done it but he was struggling to get a baby out of a back seat and I thought what's the piont it change anything that had happened or prevent it happening again as it was an accident not totally malicios or careless action from a selfish person. Hope that helps.
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