My brother just sent me these pictures of his passenger door. It seems that one of the construction workers enhanced it with their pickup door. I haven't seen it in person, but it looks like this might not be that bad to fix. It looks to me like the dent might come out with some dry ice, and maybe the scratches might just come out with some heavy buffing. What do you guys think?

 

That dont look like a door ding to me.... still sux :/

 

I agree that it doesn't look like a typical door ding, but we are pretty sure it is. My brother lives on a house boat at Joe Pool lake in the Cedar Hill state park. The parking lot at the marina has wide parking spaces, but the whole lot is on a hill. We believe that one of the construction workers parked his pickup next to him, and just let gravity swing the door all the way open until it wedged into my brother's door.

 

I'm unable to detect any deformation in the door in the pictures. I would first try a clay bar and lube on the marks. They appear to be more of a a paint transfer than scratches.

I hate stupid people that have little or no respect for others property!

 

I haven't seen it in person, but I think my brother said it is pushed in. The pictures also seem to distort the reflection of the background as if it is pushed in.

 

Yes, I've had much worse on my car. Call my buddy Chris McNeese @ 214-682-5144 and he'll get that fixed right up, let him know you have a scrape, and I think he can get the scrape polished out. He knows S2000's well, he's been popping dings in mine and joseph's car for quite a while. Have him look at that dent in your quarter panel too.

 

dang what an Ahole, that had to be on purpose

 

My brother brought his car over yesterday, and we pulled out the Porter Cable buffer to see what we could do. After about 10 "episodes" with Zymol polisher wax, we got the scratches down to the point that they aren't very noticeable. Every time we did it, the scratches were better, but I was concerned about removing too much clear coat or paint, since I'm really not very experienced with that sort of thing.

We also bouth a brick of dry ice, and worked on the dent. We removed his door panel, and put the dry ice on the inside of the dent, and put lots of outword pressure on it. However, there is a support bar right behind the dent for safety, and that blocked us from the "best" location for the ice. Unfortunately, I didn't research the process for dent removal using dry ice, so we didn't really get as good of results as we could have. I experiemented with a hair dryer and some different technique later on the dent on my rear quarter panel later, and got MUCH better results. We'll try fixing his dents again later. We need to get some touch-up paint for the small ship that goes down to the metal.

 

dang those wheels are huge lol

 

What did your brother end up doing?

I called Chris McNeese (Discount Dent Repair) and he did an outstanding job and was very affordable.