Tips on a repair for this bit?

[NoahMini]

Hello!

So the CLK/Mum had a fight with a pillar in waitrose car park, it is curiously tight turn to be fair, I struggle to get the mini round there (classic).

Any tips to get this fixed?

My Plan was, Sand - Fill - Sand - Filler primer - Sand - Primer - Sand - Primer and send it off to paint. (I won't paint metallic on such an obvious place)

Many Thanks

Noah

 

[Simon_M]

I would be tempted to try one of those mobile repairers on that to be honest.

I don't have great stories from using Chipsaway but Shine! We're very good.

But I am not too sure how the lacquer would last if applied and dried with a heat lamp in the current weather.

S

 

[mikestrivens]

I would take it to a body shop and get a quote.

 

[mxs]

It is do-able by a SMART mobile repair guy, this would be a cheaper option than a body shop who will want to paint the whole wing and half the door to get a paint match

 

[Barry-p]

You will struggle to get a nice finish from a smart repair guy in this weather and they wouldn't have a good line to lacquer to. Your best bet is a bodyshop who will pin the main area then only having to use minimal filler will finish the repair, prime and paint.
Any good bodyshop would never need to blend a panel for that repair

 

[Alps]

id say bodyshop too, you will get a longer lasting better looking finish... all depends on what condition the rest of the car is in

 

[MicB]

Cheap fixes are a false economy.....I have been there in the past to my longer term cost.

Mic

 

[renault12ts]

Bodyshop.

Now, what is a "curiously tight turn"?

 

[jimmyca69]

Chipsaway etc would struggle with that imo, take it to local bodyshop and get some quotes.

 

[NoahMini]

Luckily there is a body repair shop at the bottom of my road, that specialises in High End crash repair.

I can't believe that this repair would be much more than £500. Obviously the car atm is not worth £800. But its more sentimental value.

 

[renault12ts]

Noah, since you're only 16...how do you know what it's like to drive your Mini in that carpark? Just curious.

 

[NoahMini]

Noah, since you're only 16...how do you know what it's like to drive your Mini in that carpark? Just curious.

I forgot to put the 'd changing it to I'd, I have driven the mini on a closed course in Romford, called the car drome? don't know if you know it, so I know what the turning circles like, because its lowered and on wider wheels its not great.