After over two years of watching where I park and even with the work car park being dodgy with it having big wheelie bins about, today I find one has hit my driver door. Absolutely gutted. It has been windy but the wind stays out of our car park so it must have been one the morons working in the nightclub nearby. Looks like they've moved all the bins and just let one hit mine. There's even paint transfer off the bin!

There are scratches but these will polish out and the dent seems quite shallow so I'm hoping the dealer can have it pulled out. Is this easy enough to do?

It's happened before with an owner of a Merc in the shop next door but ended up needing a whole new door it was that bad. Of course there's no CCTV and the car park owners take no responsibility so she had to fork out for it. It's take a bit of the shine off a good week

Shallow dents are easy to pull out. It is trickier to fix if the dent is on a "nerve". Don't worry sounds like something that can get fixed without spending too much money.

Also get used to the idea of such accidents - unfortunately we are not alone on the road and the majority doesn't care about cars as you and others do.

I'm leaving this job in another week too which makes me feel worse. Another week and it might not have happened at all. I'll take it to Skoda Monday to see what they say

How bad is it?

 

This dent on my Superb will require a new door at £1,300...

 

 

Nowhere near that bad. It's like a line about 4 inches long. No scratch just a dent. I'm hoping it should pull out

Sounds positive, not needing paint is a huge bonus too!

Been told a hairdryer and some cold spray could pull it out. Worth a go?

How bad is it?

 

This dent on my Superb will require a new door at £1,300...

 

 

A new door may be perfect at £1300 but some filler and paint at,say, £300 should be 99% perfect,which is what I would go for if it was my money.

Many are paying lots for insurance because of Loss Adjusters, Estimators, & Insurance Companies feeding the Accident Repair Business.

 

There are still many well trained Panel Beaters, Painters and vehicle refinishers that can do high standard work.

They are not always employees of Accident Repair Centres.

 

Often when you go to do a repair on Brand New or almost Brand new vehicles that the Owner has never previously had repaired,

you find filler already on  panels. Vehicles get 'In Transit repairs'. and they will not be the replacement of the likes of a door panel as shown in the Picture, if that was done 'In Transit'.

 

The door shown is actually a £400 job tops, including VAT and a courtesy car for the day.

 

george

Not sure where you would get it in the UK, but there are paintless dent removal methods. More or less done by some method of vacuum/suction. We had a big hailstorm in Perth in 2010, and it took nearly 12 months for every car to get repaired. A lot of them merely had dents removed, and I'm told you couldn't tell they had ever been there. It only works on flat panels, not on pillars etc. Might be worth trying that. The going rate was about $50 per dent, and obviously if the number of dents was too much, then the car would be written off. I still see a lot of cars getting around with roofs and bonnets that look like golf balls - doesn't look good, but obviously doesn't affect how the car runs.

You just need to find a proper panel beater. They use weird shaped metal rods and can get most dents out of anywhere on a car body. But there a bit of a dying art so finding one could be difficult

https://www.facebook.com/ecodent.paintlessdentremoval

Give this guy a call. Not plugging nothing just seen a video of his work on YouTube.

Get yourself one of these if it's not too big!

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-69187-Suction-Dent-Puller/dp/B0001KA0RM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389339115&sr=8-1&keywords=dent+puller