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Originally Posted by JohnVidale
I went to one recommended shop, Pacific, and got a $1500 quote, and a shop closer to my house with good Yelp reviews, Holman's up near Ravenna, $1000. Both recommended a lot of disassembly and painting. Dent removal doesn't seem an effective option. Both wanted to hang on to the car for 4-5 days.
Both wanted to taper paint over a much larger area than is dented. A shop did that for a dent on my last car, and after 10 years, the repainted area was distinctly different in color and degrading faster than the original paint on the rest of the car (ack!).
I may just leave the dent, it's fairly small, as a reminder that shopping carts and the like are inevitable, and I shouldn't stress about small cosmetic details.
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See my previous post in this thread. There is NO reason why a repainted surface should degrade faster than the original. If shop uses BMW approved paint, has skillful people prepping, spraying and doing after paint texture match, then you'll be fine with a repaint.
Its lousy shops, who use lousy materials and don't take time to match properly that gives the whole refinish business a bad name.
And, its normal for a body shop to apply base coat over the damaged/repaired area and clear over a larger area.
I would seek out a shop who does high end cars and check their work. Ask around. Dealer recommendations are not always best. many BMW approved dealer body shops do very average work.
The only BMW approved body shop I would implicitly trust is the VPC. Unfortunately, no way to send your car back to one for repair.