Just walking past my car with a step ladder after doing a bit of pruning, did a little trip and scratched the wing...about an inch in length but not all that deep. £300 I was quoted, just touched it in and if you look carefully you can see it. How does a repair come to £300? local mobile lot say it's beyond them. I'll live with it for £300!

Did the same the other week, taking a coffee table to my flat... carrying glass top vertically to slide in and slid across lip of rear bumper. nice gouge in the bumper.. filling and spraying entire bumper (metallic) £300 cash, no receipt. can live with it as not visible when rear door closed.

I had my wing badly scratched when a tyre was punctured by metal wire which faliled around the bodywork - £330. It depends if it's close to the edge or not but my trusted repair man said a large part of that section would need repainting to blend it in. Probably the same with yours. I paid up and you'd never know

I think any minor paint job will not cost much less than £ 250-300. It seems a lot, but quite a bit of time goes into it, setting up and cleaning up afterwards, with some consumables as well. Plus the possibility of a 'high' quote for a job they may not really want to bother with.

Edited by Andrew-T on 12/06/2018 at 18:57

Just walking past my car with a step ladder after doing a bit of pruning, did a little trip and scratched the wing...about an inch in length but not all that deep. £300 I was quoted, just touched it in and if you look carefully you can see it. How does a repair come to £300? local mobile lot say it's beyond them. I'll live with it for £300!

Beyond them? Is it some special paint or gone right through to the bare metal? Or an older car that they can't get the matching paint any more. I'd try more than one mobile repairer - there's many national franchises about, so another might be able to do it. Might even be worth asking your local dealer who they use for small-ish touch up jobs when they don't need a proper respray.

I had a minor parking bump a while back, which left multiple scrapes around the grille and put a crease in the bumper.

I've used the local Chipsaway guy a couple of times and he's proven to be very good, but he advised me that the scrapes and crease were too extensive to be fixed by his processes: it needed to be a bumper-off job.

Went to a local indie bodyshop, and he said "no problem, we'll just whip the bumper & nose off, get some heat on the crease to get it out, and respray the lot while it's off the car."

I must admit, I was sceptical, but I left it with him. 24 hours later, the job was perfect, even though the car was an unusual shade of silver and was 2 years old. He'd even masked the factory stickers about oil types and aircon gas quantities on the under-bonnet section of the bumper, so there was no overspray on them. I was very impressed.

£200 all in, which was less than my insurance excess and a heck of a lot cheaper than handing it back to the lease company for them to repair.