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Recently, I found out my passenger front door has been dented. It’s clear that adjacent car that was parked next to me did.
I just hate them to death. I am very conscious when opening the doors to NOT any adjacent cars parked.
Now, I’m sitting with a small dent..
I just hate them to death. I am very conscious when opening the doors to NOT any adjacent cars parked.
Now, I’m sitting with a small dent..
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I lent a broom against my garage wall, only to watch it slowly fall on to my car from about a foot away. It left a nice dent on the side, I guess because of the aluminum panels. *sigh*. Will be connecting with a PDR company at some-point to hopefully get it pushed out. Its very minor but in certain lighting visible.
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It's hard to tell from the photo whether the paint surface has been broken. If it hasn't this is something a dent repair service should be able to fix. Most localities have at least a few such services. Also, most body shops either do dent repair themselves or have an arrangement with a local service.
I've had three dents in fairly tricky locations on our Air repaired by mobile services that came to my house. The repairs are virtually undetectable. The cost was around $175 each time.
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This should be repairable. But aluminum is much harder to repair than steel. On my former BMW some asswipe dented both of my front doors. The body shop wanted to replace the aluminum door car panels. The insurance company insisted that they try to repair it first. So they did and couldn't repair it and eventually the insurance company agreed and they replaced both outer door panels.
But your injury is much smaller.
But your injury is much smaller.
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Just sharing in this thread for reference.
While reversing, my sensor didn't detect the wall and ended up with the scratches . I regret for not having the 3D view.
I contacted a Lucid certified body shop over email/phone, they quoted ~3k and mentioned that they have to order some one time parts for the bumper to remove it.
Another painful thing is the body shops are far from my place and have to take leave from my work for a day to get the actual analysis and estimates.
Once they estimate and they order the parts . The fix will take ~1week.
While reversing, my sensor didn't detect the wall and ended up with the scratches . I regret for not having the 3D view.
I contacted a Lucid certified body shop over email/phone, they quoted ~3k and mentioned that they have to order some one time parts for the bumper to remove it.
Another painful thing is the body shops are far from my place and have to take leave from my work for a day to get the actual analysis and estimates.
Once they estimate and they order the parts . The fix will take ~1week.
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While this won't help the OP, i did something very similar to my Model S as your pic. After trying a few things and a tiny bit of research, ended up using a Mr Clean Magic Eraser and, strangely, WD40. After a lot of elbow grease with that combo, it produced astonishing results. Could hardly tell I scraped into anything. This may be widely known, but I did not know and was shocked.
Obviously YMMV, and it depends on how deep the scratches are, but I was amazed how well that removed the paint transfer when other attempted solutions (e.g. polishing compounds) did almost nothing.
May/may not be applicable in your case, but I thought it worth mentioning for anyone with mild paint transfer, or someone who just wants to make it potentially look better.
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@RAF42, Thanks a lot for sharing the tip . I will give it a try and share the results here.
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Came here to say this; doesn’t have to be WD40. We got sideswiped by a hit-and-run driver in the Gravity GT (a Prius drifted out of their lane, and then bounced as soon as we got off the highway), and after a police report, I spent an hour or two just really going at the side with a lot of ONR, elbow grease, and occasional Ech2O… it’s as if it never happened. Cleaned right up. Not one scratch, just a scuff mark that’s basically invisible. Pretty wild.
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It does if you're down south. We have a saying about the indispensability of two things: duct tape (or duck tape down here) and WD40.
"If moves and shouldn't? Duck tape. If it doesn't move and should? WD40."
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