Paintless Removal - Anyone have any experience?

[Ben B]

i just had my local Chips Away Agent round (From Colchester I believe), I had the "this is going to be expensive" routine.

I Had them come round to give me a quote as I'd heard they were PDR specialists, Apparently they don't do PDR, just fill and respray whole panels.

I thought the whole point was that they could get round that with clever techniques?!?! He said" You wouldn't expect me to be able to repair it with PDR techniques, much like I wouldn't expect a paintless dent removal expert to be able to fill and repaint the panel"!! I thought Chips Away were PDR specialists??

A few (5 or so) tiny trolley dents in each door, £400 for both doors to be filled and resprayed!
I said the bonnet is peppered with very small white flecks, he said it's best to respray the bonnet and both wings while I'm at it! Total cost £881!

Think I'll give them a miss! If anyone knows any Paintless Dent Removal people in the Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge or Ipswich area, please let me know!

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[Wimmy]

Ouch! I can understand the bonnet as mine is the same. Dark cars are a pain in the arse for the 'shotgun look'.
As for the doors etc I would definately get quotes elsewhere. I think he is trying to pull a fast one.

 

[Allan Wall]

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he is havign you on or is just crap at his job. .

i just had a quick look at chips away websote, and blatently says they use PDR and paint repair techniques to avoid filling and painting whole panels!

ring yellow pages, or look online, sure i've seen vnas called dent devil definately doign pdr.

 

[Anonymous]

HAHAHAHA!!!!

i can get a full respray for half that lol

shocking what people pay for things isnt it... good luck with the search mate

Smee

 

[Ash]

chips away are a bunch of unskilled monkeys steer clear. i got them to quote them to do a tiny dent in my rear quarter and they said it needed to be painted and filled. one day i was feeling a bit brave and had a go at pushing it from behind from the outside into the middle of the dent and hey presto the dent was gone!!