Hi. Our new (to us) car has got a supermarket dent in the rear door. Does anyone have a good experience using a West Auckland tradesperson to fix a dent such as this. Thanks.
anenigma,
Oct 26, 4:36pm
It would be pointless .
trogedon,
Oct 26, 4:37pm
Ha.
tintop,
Oct 26, 6:19pm
Perhaps you mean 'paint-less' ?
lookoutas,
Oct 26, 6:29pm
No perhaps about it.
Wait for kaz to point or paint you in the right direction.
cubasesx,
Oct 26, 6:38pm
Try Lance at Dents R Us.
drog,
Oct 26, 6:53pm
Oooops! Meant paintless. dang. Thanx for the humour tho. All good.
exwesty,
Oct 26, 8:16pm
pant less dent removal, show us your crack
socram,
Oct 26, 8:21pm
Unless you are about to sell, pointless might be closer to the truth, as the chances are you'll get another, and another - even if you adopt defensive parking techniques.
easygoer,
Oct 26, 8:38pm
I bought my BF Ghia 8 years ago on a Tuesday, went to the Auckland airport on the Wednesday to pick my Daughter up from her flight and got a small dent in the door from a Remuera tractor, it is still there and the only dent in the car to this day even with all the supermarket visits
marte,
Oct 26, 8:49pm
Tru, I got a car with no dents in it, 19 yrs old.
I have had three people open their doors and hit my car, and thats while I am in it. 2 of them got dints in return.
If I park in the most far away spot, someone will park beside me leaving a gap so small they touch both cars as they slide down the gap.
Its like as if its some sort of competition.
I now know why some people park across to parking spots. But thats just a challenge for another driver to park in the sliver of a gap while ignoring every other empty parking spot.
Years ago I came back to a diffetret car to find the front bumper twisted around by 45Degs.
And a different time, a bullbar gouge from rear door to rear indicator light and the rear of the car moved by a foot across from where it was parked.
Pretty obvious its intentionally done.
socram,
Oct 27, 7:50am
Although I have owned cars for 50 years, until 2002, all were secondhand and yet it is only in the last 5 years we have gained dings ranging from a scuff to a stoved in door - gym bunny in a Remeuera tractor judging by the size and location of the ding - who never left a note - to a broken tail light (where the culprit did leave a note and honourably, paid).
Only this week, yet another scuff to the left front to match the one on the right front.
We even witnessed a driver turn into an angled parking space from the wrong side of the road, ding the car alongside, with a fair sized dent, reverse, then slot in again. Driver just walked away. Mind you, we stopped, took note of the number and left a note on the damaged car.
Either driving/parking standards have reduced or the respect for other people's property has. .
kazbanz,
Oct 27, 8:26am
HI drog I know a guy that knows a guy so if ya called the guy that knows a guy he would tell ya who to use. -trade me rules suck sometimes
tgray,
Oct 27, 12:58pm
There are many businesses that can come to you and remove dents. I don't think we are allowed to name them here, so I would Google it.
2sheddies,
Oct 27, 1:42pm
A combination of both. To be honest, I'd be a nervous wreck if I had a brand new, or newish car, and I found myself parking it in a shopping centre carpark. And as said above, even if you choose the loneliest spot on the end of the row, way down the back, half a mile from the shop entrance, you can bet your bottom dollar some bugger in his/her old POS will jam right next to you, and slam their door into your lovely new car. If you're especially unlucky, you might get one on each side. No matter that there are dozens of other unoccupied spaces in the vicinity they could have used. I have never quite figured that mentality out.
Perhaps I'd keep the good car in the garage and only use it only on occasions when I knew for certain that parking and leaving it unattended anywhere around other vehicles wasn't involved, and have a second, cheap car to use when going into town, where yet another dent to add to the increasing collection of carpark dings and scratches wouldn't be quite so distressing.
elect70,
Oct 27, 1:59pm
Park furtherest away from s mart entrance , that way avoid the sheilas with large trolleys dragging their brats along beside , they get close as possible . Same with parking buildings park on top floor less risk .
lookoutas,
Oct 27, 3:50pm
Usually it's best to ask the guy who knows a guy, then they will put you onto the best guy. Google - Miller Car thinga'me'bobs.
Ya-know. We've all poked a bit of shit here, but those dents are pointless.
socram,
Oct 27, 7:26pm
Try telling my wife that an old car is OK. For the last 10 years or more, she has got used to as near to 100% reliability as it is possible to get. Probably 80% of our driving is local so leaving a good car in the garage rather defeats the object of having one.
Even older cars I prefer to keep in good nick, though the $4,000 one I do have, is covered in small dings - on both sides, where the previous owner's work colleagues obviously just banged their doors on it regularly.
kazbanz,
Oct 28, 10:29am
No worries drog- good to meetcha dude.
lookoutas,
Oct 28, 4:42pm
Sorted then
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