Mini Accident. Paint came off, what are my options (PICS inside)

Color code is usually printed on the door jamb sticker. Good luck!

 

You must be driving really close to the other car for your car to be damaged like that.

 

Okay, I'm a little obsessive, but if that were my car? I'd have a hard time defining that as a "mini accident". That damage looks pretty substantial to me.

What standard of repair are you looking for?

Maybe some people might have some cheaper options, but I can tell you what I suspect you already know, and that is that a bodyshop and professional paint, would be pretty expensive.

Good Luck that's painful to look at....

 

The only way thats going away is if you take it to a body shop

 

If you take the time to get estimates from 3 different shops recommended by your local friends then chances are you won't be ripped off. 120 sounds a bit too low though. Good luck!

 

If this can be repaired, repainted and buffed out for about 120, I'd like to take a look at that body shop's other work.
You've got damage right on a body line on both doors. Some decent tin-knocking skills will be needed to get this to look right at all-can't just plaster it over with filler and paint it.
I've not done body work in years, but you've got to have at least 3 hours in labor plus paint (not cheap), filler and the consumables (sandpaper, masking tape/paper, prepsol/degreaser, tack cloths etc).
Even a pro body guy working out of his own garage "on the side" should need to charge 2X that.
Any pro body guys out there; please jump in.
But, if they can do what is, to you, a satisfactory job of it at that price, I'd say go for it.

 

That repair should be left to a body shop. I would estimate $1000-1500. There's painting of several panels to get the paint to blend to match and there's sheet metal work there too! The door panel crease damage looks pretty substantial to me.

 

I'm no body shop guy or anything, but I agree with both Danvee and Azipod - $120 sounds way too low for a real body job, and since the sheet metal is damaged/disfigured, there is some reshaping required. $120 will probably only cover the materials excluding labour - and labour will make up the bulk of the bill.

As suggested, if you want the lowest price possible, then you should expect a less-than perfect result.

I can appreciate your budget is tight being unemployed, so perhaps this might the kind of repair you can hold off for for a couple months until you are in a better financial position to repair it properly?

But the one aspect I still find very strange - this was actually damage from an outturned tire? Doesn't a tire only extend about 4-6" (depending on wheelsize, body, etc.) outside the "footprint" of the car? Were you really passing that closely to a parked car...?

 

I had a similar damage before. Quoted 3 shops and the best was $900. They took out two door panels and did great job. I paid cash. No insurance. Just for your reference. Good luck!

 

Wow, you lucked out! You'll probably need to buff the paint out pretty good to match the surface texture of the rest of the bodywork, but you hit paydirt at your local CC!

 

wow you got lucky