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How high is your door-dent tolerance?

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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 03:25 PM
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I would say I have zero tolerance, but I guess not because I have two dings right now. One that I found upon returning to my car (classic door ding) that I've had for a good 3 months, and one that I caused myself on my trunk that pisses me off every time I look at it. I had a paintless dent removal guy look at it, but he says he can't fix it and I'll have to take it to a body shop. I'm just going to buy a spoiler, which I was going to do anyway, and it will be covered completely.
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 03:47 PM
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hood is aluminum, ie very soft and light and harder to pdr. so in windy days i recommend not to park under trees. even the smallest branch puts dings. i have 2.

i still think honda should manufacture dings holes to access dings easier.
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 04:14 PM
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I always park far far away and walk, and most of my cars stay dent free, but the S2000 seems to be a dent magnet. I have a "paintless dent repair" guy go over the car two or three times a year. So far (knock wood) I've only had problems with paint chips on the front bumper ($300 to clean up and repaint). The paintless dent repair isn't very expensive and the guy who does my car does an excellent job.
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 05:37 PM
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No tolerance for door dents and so far none (after 14 months) I park away from everything and try for spots protected by walls, trees, etc.

I did get keyed from the front of the driver's door to the rear of the car. I was an absolute maniac until I got it fixed.
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 08:47 PM
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Honda dealership replaced my HID system lately 'cause it took a crap on me. I paid $834.00 to get light back on my passenger side and I got 2 courtesy dings on my right fender for free for being such a good sport. What was I thinking taking it in.
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by GPS2K01,Mar 4 2006, 09:47 PM
Honda dealership replaced my HID system lately 'cause it took a crap on me. I paid $834.00 to get light back on my passenger side and I got 2 courtesy dings on my right fender for free for being such a good sport. What was I thinking taking it in.
That pisses me off. The dealers really need to use more caution when working on peoples cars. Did you complain about that to the service manager? I would be giving him a call and show him the dents and see if they will pay for a PDR guy (dent pro, dent wizard, or whoever they use) to come fix the dent their guys put in your car. It is obvious that they put them in if they were working in that section of your car, but they will probably deny it, but it is always worth a try.
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 09:30 PM
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I just got my car back from a Honda Dealership not to long ago..when it was there for 4 weeks some how a HUGE dent + scratch got on the drivers door. They paid for everything to get fixed..plus they did a number on my paint when they washed it ..sooo many swirls and scratch on my car...talked to the service manager and now they're paying to get it detailed at my choice of shop
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 09:37 PM
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[QUOTE=smurf2k,Mar 3 2006, 05:09 PM] Do you all suck it up everytime theres a new ding/dent?
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Old Mar 4, 2006 | 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Tugz_S2K,Mar 4 2006, 10:37 PM
I can handle a mack truck T-boning my S2000....I still wouldn't mind...


What kind of a dumb question is this?

Not a single dent anywhere!
your poor comprehension make you seem stupid, not my question
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Old Mar 6, 2006 | 05:10 PM
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lol this is funny, I actually went to a PDR today since we're having all this dent talk. Noticed my honda dealer left me a nice dent..I wasnt 100% sur eit was them but it still aggrivated me and I did it...guy did an aweosme job!!!!!!!!!!!! Besides the main dime dent which stood out he fixed up 4 very very small dents! Tipped him 10 bucks

total price was only 80 so def an aweosme job.
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