Unfortunately the other half has scraped the car good and proper and has involved the rear arch between the door and arch so I'm guessing its not going to be an easy fix but I'm no expert. 

 

Does anyone have experience of wether we'll get a good fix or will it be a case of it's always going to look bad?

 

May not need a door replacement but I haven't seen the depth of the scratch there yet and the alloy is gouged too. 

 

Not what we need with our wedding in two weeks 🤣

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Ouch no advice apart from it's not going to be cheap and to offer my commiserations !

 

However an excellent excuse to call off the wedding so silver lining !! 😆

Edited 26 August, 20232 yr by Nick_H

Maybe try a mobile repair company first to see what they think. I've never used this company I've linked to myself so just using them as an example , all you have to do is upload some photos and they'll let you know if you need more than a mobile repair.

 

https://www.dentdevils.co.uk/

 

If it needs to go to for a body shop repair you'll never know it ever happened, there are some very skilled people out there.

4 hours ago, Calskil said:

Not what we need with our wedding in two weeks 🤣

 

Its an omen, call it off! 😄

 

In years to come when you are presented with other "little accidents" including no doubt from your children you will think of me 😄

 

Decades ago my pal got so fed up with his insouciant wife pranging every vehicle that they owned he sold on her one while she thought it was being repaired and presented her with a Lada 😒 saying it was tough as old boots and she could prang it as much as she liked and it would not look any worse than it already did.

 

Back then it was a toss up between a Lada and a Skoda 😄

6 hours ago, Calskil said:

Unfortunately the other half has scraped the car good and proper...

I have to ask: did your other half scrape the car along one of the street bicycle lockers? Looks just like the scrape I put along the side of my car.

 

I hate self-inflicted wounds...

Ouch, not good

 

Not going to be easy conversation choosing between cost of car repair, vs an expensive wedding dress

 

 

19 hours ago, freelunch said:

I have to ask: did your other half scrape the car along one of the street bicycle lockers? Looks just like the scrape I put along the side of my car.

 

I hate self-inflicted wounds...

 

She didn't, it was coming out of a parking space and it was a low motorway armco type metal barriers. 

 

6 hours ago, SurreyJohn said:

Ouch, not good

 

Not going to be easy conversation choosing between cost of car repair, vs an expensive wedding dress

 

 

Hahaha, already paid for. 

 

 

It's all looking like it's going to be an insurance job. 

17 hours ago, Calskil said:

It's all looking like it's going to be an insurance job. 

I have the hatchback version of your car. I park on the street and for six years the car went relatively unscathed. This year...!

 

I have a dent on the nearside front wheel arch that looks like a kid on a scooter hit the car with his handlebar. I got in touch with a dent puller outfit and they want £540 to fix it. That's more than I pay for insurance, but if I involve the insurance company, the premium will double.

 

I scuffed the rear wheel arch on a roadside bike locker. Two weeks later, I scuffed the rear door (same side) on a pillar in a very tight and dark underground car park. I was barely moving, but managed to put a 3" mark on the car. 

 

I will have this car, still parked on the street, until Mayor Khan decides to make it obsolete. I used to take some pride in its appearance, so I got out my scratch-removing compound, applied some muscle grease and some touch up paint. I swear, the car looks like new from 20 feet. Okay, 30 feet. The dent I'm gonna have to live with.

 

Good luck with your insurance company.

On 26/08/2023 at 20:44, cnc said:

Maybe try a mobile repair company first to see what they think.

 

 

Please don't - under ANY circumstances.  They say they can do it, they'll bodge it and charge you a fortune. It needs to goto a decent bodyshop. I'd estimate that'll be £6-800, plus the wheel refurb, which should be about £80.

On 29/08/2023 at 13:28, numskull said:

Please don't - under ANY circumstances.  They say they can do it, they'll bodge it and charge you a fortune. It needs to goto a decent bodyshop. I'd estimate that'll be £6-800, plus the wheel refurb, which should be about £80.

It's very unfair to assume a mobile repair company might do a bad job, there will also be body shops that do a bad job and visa versa. There are some very skilled mobile repair companies out there, and like a body shop use whichever you require/prefer but try to get a personal recommendation from someone you know who has used them.

I had someone reverse into my car and it left a sizeable dent in the wheel arch just in front on the wheel. I went to a reputable local body shop and it cost me £600 to get the dent pulled and the wing/door resprayed. Because yours has damage behind the wheel as well, I’d suspect it might cost over £800 plus wheel refurb though that depends on quality of work. You’d not know that mine had been hit at all now. 
 

Worth paying for a decent repair IMO, though if you go through insurance, you’ll be forced to use an approved repairer (who aren’t always great but tend to be cheap). 

15 hours ago, cnc said:

It's very unfair to assume a mobile repair company might do a bad job

No it’s not. 90% of them have never seen the inside of a bodyshop, let alone worked in one. They buy a franchise, get a few weeks “training” and they’re qualified. And the big boys dictate the standard of the work, the customer does not, with clauses like “as long as the repair cannot be identified by a lay person from 3 metres, it’s a pass” or words to that effect.
Also, they’re worked on outside, even worked on when it’s raining without putting up a gazebo (I saw that this week in my road - another triumph of Chipsaway (“Like it never happened” my ass!) and with that the paint can get contaminated with dust, water et Al.
They overcook the paint to save time, which means the outside of the paint dries but the inside remains tacky and that can cause crazing and shrinkage. And boy do they overcharge too. Yeah, a slight scuff on a bumper which hasn’t damaged the plastic is one thing; in regards to the subject of the OP post, forget it.