Ooops!! slightly 'grazed' my Car Today !!

[stwat]

A bloody gatepost jumped out at me from nowhere !!

 

[st4]

Sorry to hear, that looks quite bad but a decent body shop can fix that in no time.

PS don't bother with your insurance, will be under £300, I did a similar thing to my old car. Easily done in a seconds lapse of concentration.

 

[finisterre]

I managed to scrape both sides of my van in one entranceway a while back.

I got it wrong going in, got it wrong getting out.
It was a lot narrower than it looked.

But I am lucky in that I don't really care.

....

 

[stwat]

I'm searching the tinterwebnet for a replacement door in smoke silver as that seems to be the best option at the moment.

 

[MERC CLK 230 K]

 

[dulayj]

Bad luck mate-hope you get it sorted

 

[219]

Stu , I can easily get you a Sacco panel from one of the cars breaking up here . I presume the door would need paint and is too bad to polish out ? Hard to tell from the photo .

 

[Druk]

Bad luck. Don't suppose the gnome in the back seat thought of warning you about the gate?

 

[Mactech]

Sorry about the scrape! I changed a door on a Jazz I sold for a friend a little while ago. £100 against nearly £500 for painting the side. No dents and at firsts glance it looks fine, but it really is a problem to get the metallic colours to match!
If you look in the reflection you can see a Mercedes star!

 

[grober]

Metallic silver--- tell me about it!

 

[A-AvantGarde]

Ouch, replacement door is a good option but as others have said colour match may be tricky it's quite likely to look a little out.

I changed the front wing on our W203 after a light bump to another 744 Brilliant Silver one it didn't look quite right for a while - when it went in for it's warranty rust repair I paid extra to get it resprayed & blended in.

 

[Simon_M]

bad luck. Don't suppose the gnome in the back seat thought of warning you about the gate?

lol

 

[John]

Sorry about the scrape! I changed a door on a Jazz I sold for a friend a little while ago. £100 against nearly £500 for painting the side. No dents and at firsts glance it looks fine, but it really is a problem to get the metallic colours to match!
If you look in the reflection you can see a Mercedes star!

It looks to me like you have an Alabaster Silver Jazz with a Storm Silver Metallic rear door!

We have a Storm Silver Metallic Jazz which is how I know.

My misses scraped her wheel arch a few moons ago and I used a place who repaired and matched it perfectly - you cannot see the repair at all so it is possible.

 

[Mactech]

It looks to me like you have an Alabaster Silver Jazz with a Storm Silver Metallic rear door!

We have a Storm Silver Metallic Jazz which is how I know.

My misses scraped her wheel arch a few moons ago and I used a place who repaired and matched it perfectly - you cannot see the repair at all so it is possible.

No, I did check the paint colours were the same! (Allegedly)
But then I spotted this one in town today with exactly the same disease! Maybe it's catching!

 

[John]

I'll bear that look in mind should we need the door respraying!

 

[stwat]

Stu , I can easily get you a Sacco panel from one of the cars breaking up here . I presume the door would need paint and is too bad to polish out ? Hard to tell from the photo .

Hi Derek. I would really appreciate that mate. Could you get me a price please

I have managed to push the dent out from behind and used a small piece of wood to manipulate the dent out on the lower crease. It just needs a skim of filler and some paint now. I'l prep it all myself then get a price from a good place I know to paint it and blend it in. I may as well get a few other area's touched in whilst I'm at it too.