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Can anyone give a guesstimate what a dent fix will cost?

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  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    Ouch - replacing the panel does sound pricey for a high-tech tin can :-$ But I see what people mean with the lease end. Ohhhh, silly expensive car, why couldn't they have gone with a knackered old Allegro instead? Technically a classic car...
  • neilmcl
    neilmcl Posts: 19,460 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    This is why we have insurance :)
  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    neilmcl wrote: »
    This is why we have insurance :)

    And why insurance policies have excesses :-$
  • colino
    colino Posts: 5,059 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Excuse me for stating the obvious, but if you jumped into a full dealer repair for a scuff on a couple of panels at the start of your lease, can I buy it when it's over? It'll be a new car by then!
    Just remember, the first scratch is the most painful and it is only a heap of metal.
  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    It means nothing to me, means more to the guy paying ;-)
  • loskie
    loskie Posts: 1,761 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    tbh I would just clean it up and polish it just now and repair it near the lease end with other scuffs and damage accrued.
  • ballyblack
    ballyblack Posts: 5,165 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Why take it to Audi? most of them will contract the work out to a bodyshop and you pay them big commission for their minimal effort
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