I notice that if you wipe or wax the roof, be careful not to lean on the sides or have anything like the key or wallet in your pocket. You will be able to look down the side and get motion sick from all the ripples. My PDR guy is $40/hour. I am using him regularly with this car. Never had this frail of metal on any car. Slowly learning to just live with it.

 

PDR = Paintless Dent Repair. It's become more popular in the last decade or so as they've developed new techniques to take care of small dents (if it's dented enough to cause a crease, this usually doesn't work). Typically they push out the dent from behind with special tools or glue something onto the surface of the dent and pull it out.

 

PDR = AWESOME. Just...if the guy grabs a drill...stop him. I've got a guy that charges $38/panel.

Honestly...could you expect anything less than super thin sheet metal from ? I wasn't surprised to see a couple door dings after the first three months.

 

yes garaging your car will make it hold up as good as any $ amount car but thats not what we are talking about here, were talking about how the car holds up on daily use...yes garaging and parking miles away from other people will prevent almost anything. But your car is still subject to dings and scratches from road debris/rock. I have a ding on my roof near my sunroof caused by a rock. You know how rocks pop up and crack windshields ? well if a rock can crack thick glass think what it can do to a thin panel...

also i know what quotations are but I just dont see why he needs to quote me as if I was the FIRST person to ever call the lancer / RA an econobox car ?????

 

I was just referring as to how all door panels are made like ****. No matter if you spend $1000 or $100,000 they all dent equally as bad. This was an observation sorry if you took it personally.

 

I've got a visible door ding on the back passenger door. That's how it goes I guess even if I generally try to park away from other cars...

 

hey so im gettin my fender replaced cause of my accident they send they are going to blend onto the hood? anyone know exactly what that means? I asked something about adding a coat so it matches? I dunno im lost i jost hope my car is all the same color

 

Since you've got a WW, your paint has ever-so-slightly yellowed. If they spray it with the original paint code for your car, the fender will be off-color just a bit. What they're going to do is "overspray" your fender a bit so that the new paint will blend with the old paint on the hood. So instead of your hood and fender being slightly different shades of white, they will "blend".

There's not much else they can do, other than use an optical color matching system to mix their own color to match your existing paint. But....that has issues in and of itself, because as this newly mixed paint ages, it might age differently than your stock paint.

Don't worry, it should look fine.

 

well myy old oz rally held up pretty good, as far as dents and dings...

 

IMO the RA isn't really an "econobox" car... If it was then it would be a really crappy one since it gets around 17mpg...

So what makes it an econobox car?

 

Its thin because the car is so dam heavy already so they are trying to shed some weight . My car has no dents

 

maybe if you wrap your car in bubble rap it wont get dents

 

Yeah, it dents real easy. Especially when your wife bumps the closet where your golf clubs are stored and they slam heads first into your baby and doesn't say a word for 3 days! AAAARRRHRHGGG.