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I was out for a movie this week and I am petty sure the people in the Honda Odyssey that was parked next to me when we got out of the CT must have hit my car when they were backing out and scraped the paint along the front edge of the right rear wheel well/right rear door area. I was really upset when my friend pointed it out to me and I don't even have 1300 miles on the CT yet!
I knew some of the scrapes were just on the clear coat and probably would buff out but at least 3 or 4 definitely looked to have dug into the paint and/or down to the metal with the worse one about 4 inches long. Good news is there wasn't any real metal damage...just paint/clear coat work..but I wasn't happy at all...ughhhhh!!!
I debated if to take it into a good body shop but wasn't looking forward to them surely wanting to repaint/finish the whole area or if to try a paint/dent repair service. Figured either way I was probably going to end up paying $400-$1K to get this fixed and wanted to avoid disturbing the original paint/clear coat as much as possible so decided to go with the paint/dent repair service.
Called SameDay Scatch & Dent Repair and I have to say I couldn't be happier with the results. They were amazing! They took about 2 hours total, had the EXACT match on Honda Polished Metal Metallic paint, filled the 4-5 scrapes that had dug down into the paint, and built back up the clear coat. It ran me $547 but was worth every penny of it. I had used this company before for a rock ding on my previous CR-V and was very happy with their work there but had never sen their paint repair work before.
I have to say now I am a definite believer in their process and work. Considering that a body shop would have wanted to repaint almost the whole rear door/wheel well area and probably would have wanted the car for 3-4 days I am absolutely thrilled with the work these guys did. Unless you actaully knew where the other car scraped my CT, and I showed you that area, you would be extremely hard pressed to tell where the work had been done.
The only down side to the whole experience was that after seing how good the damaged area looke after the repair, I had to wash the rest of the car yesterday...and of course it has been raining here ever since
I knew some of the scrapes were just on the clear coat and probably would buff out but at least 3 or 4 definitely looked to have dug into the paint and/or down to the metal with the worse one about 4 inches long. Good news is there wasn't any real metal damage...just paint/clear coat work..but I wasn't happy at all...ughhhhh!!!
I debated if to take it into a good body shop but wasn't looking forward to them surely wanting to repaint/finish the whole area or if to try a paint/dent repair service. Figured either way I was probably going to end up paying $400-$1K to get this fixed and wanted to avoid disturbing the original paint/clear coat as much as possible so decided to go with the paint/dent repair service.
Called SameDay Scatch & Dent Repair and I have to say I couldn't be happier with the results. They were amazing! They took about 2 hours total, had the EXACT match on Honda Polished Metal Metallic paint, filled the 4-5 scrapes that had dug down into the paint, and built back up the clear coat. It ran me $547 but was worth every penny of it. I had used this company before for a rock ding on my previous CR-V and was very happy with their work there but had never sen their paint repair work before.
I have to say now I am a definite believer in their process and work. Considering that a body shop would have wanted to repaint almost the whole rear door/wheel well area and probably would have wanted the car for 3-4 days I am absolutely thrilled with the work these guys did. Unless you actaully knew where the other car scraped my CT, and I showed you that area, you would be extremely hard pressed to tell where the work had been done.
The only down side to the whole experience was that after seing how good the damaged area looke after the repair, I had to wash the rest of the car yesterday...and of course it has been raining here ever since