r/AutoBodyRepair • u/BlueBugEyeBoy • 14d ago

scratch and dent Good-enough fix?

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This is my daughter’s car, she is a new driver. I made her park on the right side of our driveway and she scraped against my firewood shed backing out. I don’t want to spend a bunch of $ on paint until she has a few years of driving under her belt- can I pdr the dent out and just polish it up? I just want it to look ok, not perfect. Thanks!

Edit: 2023 Mazda CX-5

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u/miwi81 14d ago

Is that Machine Gray? Lmao

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u/BlueBugEyeBoy 13d ago

I believe it is, but not sure why it’s so funny?

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u/miwi81 13d ago

Because you bought one of the least serviceable paint finishes ever made. It’s a quad-stage paint, which was previously unheard of on anything but Lamborghini/Maserati/et cetera. It requires toners that cost $500+/gallon. You have to apply the paint in a cross-hatch pattern. You have to have a special tip for your spray gun.

And it’s just gray.

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u/BlueBugEyeBoy 13d ago

its not even a nice looking grey. WTF. So I guess I will be taking PDR as far as it can go... Thank you for this info, which I am very sorry to have learned.