So I made a video explaining what happened and how bad is it. Will do another on when the door gets fixed.

Nasty, fix or replace?

id say thats a new door skin. its a big old gash...............

I'm sure this guy could fix it.

Sorry Croat I couldn't resist. Hope it won't cost too much.

16 hours ago, aki78 said:

I'm sure this guy could fix it.

Sorry Croat I couldn't resist. Hope it won't cost too much.

 

That's impressive, wonder if it's actually safe though as some of those beams look structural?

Any bodyshop guys know if this would be permitted in the UK

I have full insurance. Left the car in the shop today should be done by tomorrow.

Door is going to be replaced with new one. 

 

EDIT: will make a new video after it's done to show you the quality of repair cuz all the parts form door need to be striped down and pot together on new one

Edited 1 March, 20179 yr by Croat

7 hours ago, cheezemonkhai said:

 

That's impressive, wonder if it's actually safe though as some of those beams look structural?

Any bodyshop guys know if this would be permitted in the UK

 

In the UK the car in that video would have likely been classified as a Cat B and would not have been allowed back on the road. These days a car like that is more used as a donor car.

I opened that link, saw nineteen minutes. Closed it. 

 

Can someone do me a tl;dr version?

Tricky one 

 

 

Ok the door was replaced, seems alright to me! And I think sound proof and closing sound is better. I noticed this on latest models that sound proof is slightly better than on the early models. Except the chrome part is not connected properly (it has a gap) I can see its slightly off looking at the other door. Guess I'll have to live with that.

As promised video!

4 hours ago, Croat said:

As promised video!

 

Looks to be a decent job.

 

Off topic, did your car come from the factory on steel wheels with trims, or are you running winter tyres?

 

UK spec cars get alloys across the range, and yours looks to be decent spec. 

21 minutes ago, vtec to vrs! said:

 

Looks to be a decent job.

 

Off topic, did your car come from the factory on steel wheels with trims, or are you running winter tyres?

 

UK spec cars get alloys across the range, and yours looks to be decent spec. 

 

Yes this is my winter setup! Sumer setup is just like in my avatar pic with Golus 18'.

 

My Octavia is just like on the add! 

Edited 3 March, 20179 yr by Croat

18 hours ago, Croat said:

 

Yes this is my winter setup! Sumer setup is just like in my avatar pic with Golus 18'.

 

My Octavia is just like on the add! 

 

Ah...should have looked at that!