Ask around for the details of independent body shops at work, with your friends etc. Someone will know of one.

I had a parking incident with a previous car that Chipsaway refused to touch because the damage was over a wide area. A local bodyshop removed the entire front bumper assembly (a huge piece of plastic) across the nose of the car, from wheel arch to wheel arch, filled and sprayed it. Utterly invisible repair. £240 all in, which was less than my insurance excess.

I agree it's very annoying and makes one want to give someone a good hiding. (But don't in case they hold a knife up to you). So unless the damage really bothers you why spend good money? Leave the damage until you want to sell the car then see how it affects resale value - or until some urchin damages it further and there is a need for further repairs. (Or the MOT if it is failure issue but looking at one of the photos I'd doubt this is the case).

This is my approach with damage to the drivers' door of my car, caused overnight about year ago whilst parked legally roadside, car was 8 months old then.

(PS the photo link I clicked brought up some interesting pages, I refused all the cookies, wish I'd not clicked on the link)

DP, sorry

Edited by edlithgow on 18/03/2019 at 04:12

The best course of action is to buy a car that already looks terrible. then you never have to worry about this sort of thing, and you'll get it cheaper.

Failing that, if you let nature (aided by human malice, in this case) take its course, you'll eventually reach that state.

Don't be King Canute. It didn't work out at all well for him, and he drove himself nuts.

Or was that Lear? Anyway, you get the idea. As above, it could easily happen again so don't fix it unless you're selling, when you MIGHT get some of your money back from a higher sales price.