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Recently bought a car, Seat Ibiza, 2011 as a run around and also for the 'commute' to Glencoe etc. I knew it had a dent in the passenger door when I bought it. I got a couple of hundred pounds knocked off for it. I'm not too bothered by it but I wouldn't mind getting rid if I can. It looks like a carpark ding, the paint is scratched but not badly broken.

I'd planned to get it professionally fixed, expecting it to come about £180. When I got the quote though, the body shop said because of the colour (yellow), they'd have to spray the whole side as it's difficult to match up. I don't know anything about matching colours up, so fair enough but I almost fell over, although tried to keep smiling when he quoted me £400. That might seem a fair price for a side respray, again fair enough, but the ding is barely the size of a 10p, so the £400 will be staying in my bank.

Given the age of the car and it isn't our main car, I'm happy to try a dent removal myself. There are paintless dent removal companies I know but for what it is, I'm happy to have a go with one of these........

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For £15, it must be worth a try and if it doesn't work, then at least I have a glue gun, which will come in handy for other things. I've watched a few YT videos now of similar products and it seems straightforward. I know it might just end up being useless but nothing to lose really, at worst, it won't work, at best it will look better than it does.

Anybody ever tried one, or similar, or can recommend something please?

I'm being realistic, I'm not expecting miracles but an improvement would be good. (y)

TIA.
 
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As an ex panel beater, I have my doubts Dale...
Nothing to lose though, apart from £14.99
 
I recall an "on your drive" type service called Chips Away , maybe one of those services would be more budget worthy???
 
Box Brownie said:
I recall an "on your drive" type service called Chips Away , maybe one of those services would be more budget worthy???
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I briefly worked for Chips Away franchise. They never touched dents,

Dent Master were the black magic dent wizards.
 
You will waste a lot of time doing it and some dents will not just go away - especially to you. You know how it is when there is a mark on your carpet, you see it all the time as you know its there but no-one else ever sees it.
 
We had a couple of dings removed by a dent specialist 18 months ago, one was in an aluminium door skin, the other in the rear wing. He charged £100 to do them both, the main stealer wanted £600 as the aluminium door skin is in their words "very difficult to repair"

What was particularly satisfying was the guy who did the work was a mobile technician who I just happened to speak to in the same dealer car park where he was repairing another car.
 
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Dougal always remind me of our Vet, even the same accent. :LOL:


I'll hold fire on the repair kit and have a chat with a localish dent repair guy that a buddy mentioned today. No rush though, more important things going on just now.
 
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