For some reason my Ralliart keeps having random dents appear out of nowhere very often. I just got them all popped out for $2000, but they still show up every now and then. I drive carefully, park in a safe place, and no other car has ever touched my car. I have no idea what is happening. What could be the cause?

 

The cause

HATERS!!!!

 

simply because the panels on the newer models are just such thin sheet metal

 

Do they look Intentional?.. Possibly someone just hating on u or the car ... Not to sure since u say nobody has hit u or u haven't hit nuthin. That's wat I would suspect

 

first off...the lancer is an econobox car no matter if its turboed and has AWD, the panels are all the same . they are all based off a 14,500 DE base model lancer. so if you expect the exterior of your car to hold up like a regular 25k-35k car dont. you drive a turboed econobox. it took me 2 lancers to realize this. my parents spent 18k on the 08 es and that thing looks like someone shot it with a beanbag gun my 09 gts even as careful as i have been has 3 dings on the passenger side, 1 thats REAL bad. drivers side is still good tho.

the best way is to park sooooo far from everyone that NO one would park near you. also 2k for door dings seems ridiculous i would have NEVER paid that did you do PDR ?

 

$2k for PDR is a LOT unless your car had hail damage (which my previous car had...)

My folks have had some little dents popped PDR method and it's costed them about $50/dent

 

^^^ OR $50 a panel (just depends on the company). if the panel has multiple dents and they can access them all at once they usually dont charge per dent. im gonna wait another year then getting my car PDR'ed front bumper repainted with lip molded. evo x hood repainted and rear bumper repainted with lip molded on



theres no use to do Paintless dent repair EVERYTIME a dent happens just do it every 6 months or so

 

ive found that my car dents pretty easily too. Its gotta b the type of metal they are using

 

It's funny I saw a 2008 cls 550 Mercedes with "econobox" door dings on the road yesterday.

 

whats the point to your retarded quotations ?

so now your comparing the body of a 15k car to that of an 80k car? wow your a moron. my point wasnt that since the lancer ra is based on an econobox platform that it would automatically attract door dings what i meant is, Sh*t happens what do you expect from an economy car its a daily driver dont expect it to stay in the condition of a garaged weekend Porsche.

that person who was driving that cls550 obviously has enough money to care less if his car gets door dinged seeing that it is a) either a lease or b) will be getting a new car in a year or so...

 

you don't know the point of quotations but that makes him retarded? hmmm And if I'm garaging my 14,500 car it should hold up just as well as a 32k car. Try not to sound like such an asshat.

 

Well thanks for the words of encouragement. I'll go put my Ralliart in a bubble now.

 

2k!!! ouch thats alot.. i get my dents popped for $30 a panel if its not alot or big dmg. can't even see where they were when finished.

 

It was covered by insurance, thankfully. But they had to take off the entire panel, sandblast it, pop out the dent, and repaint the entire panel for any tiny ding. We knew they were trying to scam us but it didn't matter because it's covered by insurance. It was still a big inconvenience.

What's PDR?

 

I did notice it was unusually thin (esp the roof compared to some older cars) but can you describe better where these dents are?