Opinion time- What would you estimate this dent to cost?

Hi Everybody,

Yesterday I stupidly backed into a Ford Excursion with my side mirror and left a trail of black from the mirror casing and a dent on his car. I've uploaded a couple pictures to photobucket.

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I left my information, and the guy said he'll get back to me in a couple days to talk about, and said "it was real nice that I left my information like that." I should also mention that the scratch appeared to be black scrapings from my mirror, and appeared to buff out with a little work.

I've never done something like this before, I'd love to hear your opinions.

John

Reply to
Bissert
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It'll cost less than your excess.

Reply to
Conor

Good of you to be decent and leave your details, it looks like a relatively easy fix, panels will need compounding, but that wing may need a respray.

Nigel

Reply to
Bear

File a lawsuit against your car's manufacturer. It's their fault for putting a side mirror on the rear of your ve-hick-el.

Reply to
Mark W

You get plus points for honesty regardless...

We had someone do precisely this to our car last week. The driver managed to run their wing mirror down the entire length of the rear quarter panel, making a crease running the length[1]. Total cost to repair was 450 quid -- mostly in the panel beating labour: the paintwork was less than a quarter of the cost I think.

The damage you've done looks like a quarter of the area affected on ours.

(So far we've had £1350 of damage done to the car since we bought it last November. Fortunately for us, the culprits have been scrupulously honest & fessed up to the damage!)

Make sure they get a few quotes for the repair: one local garage wanted nearly twice the estimate of the other two: a little asking around revealed that they have a habit of 'upselling' their work...

cheers, Phil

[1] Surely you'd hear it happening?
Reply to
Phil Armstrong

The message from Phil Armstrong contains these words:

My son opened his door into a neighbour's car a month or two ago, denting it nicely with a deep gouge in the paintwork. We owned up and put our hands in our pockets for the damage, which is only fair.

Blow me if there isn't a dent in the same door again - and it wasn't us this time. Nor has the culprit owned up. Aaaargh.

Reply to
Guy King

Phil Armstrong ( snipped-for-privacy@kantaka.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Saturday afternoon.

Somebody wandered up to the front door - "Hello, think I've just reversed into your car"... Fairly tall but not very deep and not very long ding/scrape in the door, including the swage line, and some cracks in the paint. Not going to be an easy one - it's certainly beyond a paintless- dent-removal bloke.

Reply to
Adrian

In article , Adrian writes

So what's the betting on the original posters question then?. Assuming he lives in the home counties, i.e. the rip off south say £350 quid ?

Any advance on that?..

Reply to
tony sayer

The Home Counties? The South? More like the Tri-State area or the Deep South!

Reply to
Mark W

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