ca993twin

My Scion got vandalized while in the hands of my son. For reasons not worthy of discussion, I don't want to file a claim with my insurance company. My body shop wants to replace both the door and the hatch for a proper repair. ~$2500. Gulp. There goes my seats for Rufus.

Or.... I'm gonna see if a paintless dent guy can get 95% of the way there. Notice the dent is in some "creased" areas. I'm willing to live with the Scion being slightly less than perfect... it is after all, just a Scion.

Any thoughts? I told the guy to plan on spending most of his day on this car.

The Brewmeister

Looks like it will be a difficult case at best. The general rule for our paintless
dent removal guys here in the Northeast is `softball size' being the largest
they can handle. It looks like most of yours are larger. They also are into edge
areas that increase the difficulty of repair. I understand there is a new `pulling'
technique which some are doing now but I don't know much about it. It may
be just a Scion but dang it looks like new car! Having to deal with that damage
would aggravate me to the max! Would the salvage yard have the parts
you need?

EndlessEarth

Damn. That sucks.

ca993twin

Brew,

I'm hoping, due to the fact that the Scion is basically pressed from three Kirin Light beer cans, that these larger dents might be reasonably well fixed. The skins are very light and pliable. I'll know tomorrow.

Greg Fishman

Local guy did some work on a co-workers car that had some a big dent and was creased. Not this size though.

C.J. Ichiban

dang steve that sucks- is that two dents or one dent? I've seen the guy I used in OC work magic on cars with much thicker sheet metal, it might not get back to perfect but it will be a lot better after he works it out for a bit

Greg Fishman

Looks like two big dents in the door and one in the rear hatch.

FGL28

Steve,

FWIW I used Final touch in Van Nuys to remove a dent from the front drivers side fender of the 993 last year. The shop vac got mad at the car and jumped off the shelf and hit the car. They did excellent work. They should be able to make t look much better.

MarkD

Wow, sorry to see that... some people.

I sure am looking forward to seeing the after shots though. Some of those guys can work miracles but I think this would be the equivalent of a Masters Thesis for a PDR artist... good luck to ya.

texas911

Wow, that's a monster door ding! At least it wasn't the 993.

Air Kuul TT

That sucks Steve... I hope the dent guy can help you out.. cuz $2,500..GULP!!

chris walrod

Sorry to see this Steve! Buuuuut, if the insurance company totals it, I'll buy the wheels and tires... they'll fit my Scion Box

Hope it all goes well with the PDR service!!

FotoVeloce

Geez that sucks. Good luck with the repairs, I hope it comes out at least to or better than expectation. That's messed up.

kkim

If you can find a PDR guy confident enough to have a go at it, my bet is that he would be able to do a pretty decent job on that. Looking forward to the results.

RyanPerrella

damn, what did you do to that car, did you get mad no one would play catch with you and throw hardballs at it from all angles. Honestly i have seen cars with these kind's of dings on them, but how the hell did you get them! seriously is the sheet metal so thin that if you touch it it deforms or something? The car looks nice and new, but how the hell did you get so many huge scars?