Offered £5500 for my wife's Vrs by insurer and £1850 for retaining car.

Car has 110k miles but was in very good condition. I just changed engine mounts , new driveshaft, tie rods, ball joints, tracked and the rear suspension and resprayed rear bumper plus undercar underseal.

The vrs got a kiss from a hgv wide load whilst parked. The drivers door is distorted and the A pillar has a crease. The drivers wing is creased also.

Looking at replacements. I've got wing off and in process of getting door off. I've sourced a new door wing mirror but am I making the correct decision.

Looking at car market everything has inflated in price. I'd go fully electric when time is right. The BMW i3 and the Renault 5 looked good, but looking at 30k and I'm not convinced technology is reliable for me to have confidence. Plus big ask to fork out another 20 to 25k

Car drives fine and it basically got rocked to side when hit.

See photos.

A few repairers I tried are really busy. Suggested that I buy new wing and paint but I'm told by others pattern parts don't fit together or thinner, rust easy etc.

Anyone suggest how a panel beater would repair the dent in the A pillar?

Weld metal in? Lead solder metal in? Filler, but heard that is a bodge job if more than 3mm thick and incompatible with 1k rattle can spray paints acrylic, nitrocellulose etc

I've read up on repair techniques and returned my own alloys etc, but rattle can paint will not give that gloss shine you get from 2k paints which I don't have kit to spray.

Thank you

Repair , if your happy with car and like it and that damage is only cosmetic

Go for it as it’s only an uneconomic to repair write off nothing else

Don’t scrap it for just that if it’s mechanically sound and road worthy

With just the mirror replaced

Agree on repair. Latest cars are designed for leasing, not owning. Old Fabia is a great owners car - they don't make them like that any longer.

As to Electric, I'm interested too but way too many issues at the moment in my opinion.

Ok, I've sourced a door I'm picking up with wing mirror. The old door looks ok for most part but it got pushed forward distorting its shape. The window mechanism detects a jam and it has air gap at top of door.

What you think

After market wing Vs 2nd hand

I'm after a VW diamond silver but I'm told it would probably not match and need respray. I'm no expert here, what you all think?

Can you not hold off for a better door?

I'm wondering if buying a cheap Fabia for parts (in the right colour) may be an option. Take off everything you need and verify it works before removal. Just a thought.

15 minutes ago, bmbmdmb said:

Ok, I've sourced a door I'm picking up with wing mirror. The old door looks ok for most part but it got pushed forward distorting its shape. The window mechanism detects a jam and it has air gap at top of door.

What you think

After market wing Vs 2nd hand

I'm after a VW diamond silver but I'm told it would probably not match and need respray. I'm no expert here, what you all think?

The fact you’re already sourcing parts , you know you’re gonna repair it

Crack on and keep us posted with the results

I'm thinking repair, yes, but my wife had seeded doubts and I thought I'd reach out for opinions.

I have space for a donor car. There was one in north east that sold recently for £800. My neighbour has low loader as a business so if anyone has a silver fabia non runner for breaking I would be interested in buying.

The door is wrong colour but it will allow car to be waterproof should a diamond silver one come on market.

There are always Fabs breaking.

Plenty of silver especially

Jacob Bell appears to break for a living on Facebook, based East Midlands way. Therefore get genuine used parts instead of pattern. Doors are about £30 these days. All very cheap as there are soo many breaking

Make sure you get a facelift door if yours is said model as I believe the wiring loom for door might be different. Certainly on a 55 plate seems differences on rear doors

Ps such an amazing payment for a 110k car is that, with a few 100 spend it can be back on the road depends how prefect you want it to be. Doors and wings bolt on I believe.

3 minutes ago, gav_is_con said:

Make sure you get a facelift door if yours is said model as I believe the wiring loom for door might be different. Certainly on a 55 plate seems differences on rear doors

Four connectors on my wiring loom for front driver's door. Are there any differences for vrs front doors across the 03 to 07 years?

Edited 28 June, 202528 Jun by bmbmdmb

Yes.

Pre-facelift door looms will have a CAN pair to window motor, and three connectors to the motor, facelift has single wire LIN comms to window motor and only two connectors at motor.

Edited 29 June, 202529 Jun by Breezy_Pete