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Gah! My first door dings

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Old 06-15-16, 06:51 PM
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Default Gah! My first door dings

Well I had 6 years of ding-free joy, but this weekend I got not one but two door dings! Not sure but I think both occurred in the airport parking deck where my ride was parked over the weekend. Found the first one Monday on the driver door and is curled, like a buckle scraped against my car as someone was lifting a bag onto their shoulder. Found the second one last night on the back passenger door, and definitely looks like someone hit me with the edge of their door as it's a vertical line with horizontal scrapes.

I'm going to try to rub them both out this weekend, though that passenger side ding slightly creased the sheet metal.

Man, and I was just thinking how cherry my car looks. In a few years it will be used by my kids to drive to high school, so the door dings will happen eventually I guess.

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A place like Dent Wizard can massage out those small dents from the inside as long as the paint is intact. A lot cheaper and faster than traditional body repair and your original paint stays original.
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One of my pet peeves where others are inconsiderate/careless...

But reality sets in and what can you do...
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Originally Posted by Clutchless
A place like Dent Wizard can massage out those small dents from the inside as long as the paint is intact. A lot cheaper and faster than traditional body repair and your original paint stays original.
I had good luck with them too. It worked like magic.

It happened to my old M3. I parked it in an empty lot and wasn't gone 1 minute. When I got back, I saw it right away. The jerk must of hit my door, knew they did it and drove away fast.

Dent Wizard met me at a gas station parking lot and $75 bucks later it was like it never happened.
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I have some rather bothersome scratches on the front of my hood and my front bumper where I've carelessly pulled in too far into my garage and up against the handle of the lawn mower. They aren't super deep scratches, but scratches nonetheless. Does a place like Dent Wizard do any sort of scratch repair work? If not, does anyone have any recommendations for getting this fixed? The hood scratches are not down to the bare metal, just to the primer level.
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