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Car body repair, Braintree

Body repair

Dents, scratches, scuffed bumpers and accident damage put right on everyday cars and vans, colour matched and painted in our own booth at Sible Hedingham.

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Dents, scratches, scuffs and knocks on everyday cars and vans, with the same prep and booth as the show cars. Send us photos for a price.

Dents and creases

Knocked or pulled back as close to shape as the metal allows, so less filler goes on and the repair lasts.

A dent in a dark blue rear door, afterA dent in a dark blue rear door, before
A painted test card held against a white car wing to check the colour

Matching the colour

Mixed to your paint code, usually on a door shut or under the bonnet, and blended in so the join doesn't show.

Sanding a repaired bumper corner with a small air sander

Scratches and scuffed bumpers

A light scuff can sometimes be polished out. Anything through the clear coat needs filling, priming and painting, and plastic bumpers get their own primer so the paint flexes.

Vans

Room for long wheelbase vans, so a dented side or scraped corner can come straight in.

  • A shallow dent in a dark blue door, picked out by the strip light

    Dents

  • A scuffed silver bumper corner

    Scuffed bumpers

  • Stone chips along the front of a black bonnet

    Stone chips

Getting a price

Photos from a few angles, the make, model and colour, and the paint code if you have it. See prices, or lease return repairs for a lease car.

Questions people ask

Where do I find my car's paint code?

On a label on the car, usually in a door shut, under the bonnet or in the boot. Send us the code, or a photo of the label, with your photos of the damage.

Can a scratch be polished out?

If it hasn't gone through the clear coat, often yes. Run a fingernail across it. If your nail catches, it usually needs filling and paint rather than a polish.

Will the repair match the rest of the car?

The new colour is mixed to the car's paint code and blended into the panels either side of the repair, so it doesn't show as a patch. Faded paint can need more blending to match.

Body repair, in detail

Lease returns

Scratches, dents, scuffed bumpers and chips put right before your lease car goes back, so you're not paying the lease company's damage charges. Essex.

Guides

All guides
A painter in white overalls and a mask spraying a red Porsche 911 in the spray booth, its front wing still in grey primer

Why is a paint repair blended into the next panel?

Why a perfectly mixed colour can still look different beside old paint, what blending does, and why a small repair can mean painting the panels around it.

· 4 min read

Gloved hands holding a sprayed white test card against the wing of a white car to check the colour match

How paint is matched to your car's paint code

Where to find your car's paint code, why one code can come in more than one shade, how the mix is checked against the car, and why repairs are blended.

· 4 min read

The corner of a silver bumper scraped through to the dark plastic, with a split running up beside the wheel arch

Scuffed or cracked bumper: can it be repaired?

When a bumper scuff polishes out, when a scrape needs filling and paint, why bare plastic needs its own primer, and when a crack means a new bumper.

· 4 min read

A round dent in the rear door of a dark blue car, a strip light bent round it in the paint

Car dent repair: knock it out, fill it or replace it?

How a dent is knocked or pulled back before any filler goes on, when a sharp crease has stretched the metal too far, and how the paint is matched afterwards.

· 4 min read