Not to underplay the damage and violence but looking at the dent I would love to see a video of a skilled panel beater sorting it out.

Likewise.

All car paint has a code often displayed on a cars pillar frame. The chap in the body shop that I have used for years repairing cat Ds and such that I bought could give you the colour name of nearly all the cars on the road past and present.. The skills of the body shop employees like most trades people are to be admired and that's why we employ them to do a good job. Overtime a cars paint can be tarnished through various reasons and one of the skills is to blend a damaged part of the car to match the rest. Like all trades there are good and bad . My guy is non VAT registered has his own business with all the kit jigs sophisticated paint room and all the modern kit built up ever a life time. He does very little insurance work preferring not to work with some of the sharks working in this business He despairs at some of the cars he sees written off which he can repair for a third of what the assessors say a job might be. He is an expert at sorting second had parts such as doors wings headlights bumpers etc which can vastly reduce a repair cost. All over the country there are warehouses and car breakers full of spare parts if you have the time and patience to look.. My sons have been brought up on CAT D and N cars and in most cases we have sourced the parts to repair them and got them delivered to the body shop for the bigger stuff. It is interesting and far cheaper than handing your hard earned cash over to a dealer.

All car paint has a code often displayed on a cars pillar frame. The chap in the body shop that I have used for years repairing cat Ds and such that I bought could give you the colour name of nearly all the cars on the road past and present.

My local bodyshop no longer bothers about a car's paint code. His latest paint system optically matches any shade and mixes paint accordingly. That means that an old car with faded paint can be matched instead of ending up with what looks like a brand-new door (for example).

I am not familiar with such a system also mentioned by another poster. Surely it requires quite a large base stock of paint to get the right shade including metallic. My chap just orders what he needs from a supplier .and uses he eye to blend the colour always gives a good result