Oh, oh, I was wrong on my post saying the fender and bumper were two parts. I was thinking E53, which is two parts. The E70 is indeed one piece and made of some sort of plastic. The bumper in this case would be the part way at the bottom, across the front. The photo doesn't show any damage, but maybe it is hidden, torn where it attaches or something.

The guy that wrote the estimate should have gone over this with you. Give them a call, be nice, you will get an answer.

Now, for the painting. I would not blend the hood. Note the curve up from the fender. Any slight difference wouldn't be noticed because of the different angles.

I would for sure blend the L/F door. There is no way on earth that they can just paint the fender. Your very expensive new X will be two-tone if that is not done. When they blend the door, make sure the handles and moldings are removed. Taping them off is for cheap jobs on cheap cars. Even insurance companies pay for blends these days as well as the parts removal and installation ("R&I"). Some moldings are glued on, no favor to the consumer, and have to actually be replaced. Re-gluing the old parts is not terribly successful.

BTW, blend means just continuing the paint onto the adjacent panel and feathering it out to nothing about half across. Then, both the fender and the door would be clear-coated entirely. All modern metallic paint is clear-coated (with actual clear paint, not some magic liquid!)

If you have any doubts, go to another shop for another estimate.

It was suggested that a shop could just knock out the dent and this would be a one-day job. It is possible that if the fender was removed and heat and pressure were applied that maybe it could be repaired. I retired from the shop before these new plastic fenders made the scene so I have to experience with them. I do know that we tried this on various plastic parts on other cars with mixed results. Usually, it was an attempt to make it look decent, but not new, and only if the owner was ok with that.

Not too many shops will experiment on an expensive vehicle. You know a new part will work, so you do that. Nobody will pay you twice if the experiment fails and then you have to go out and get the new part, start all over, etc.

The good part about repairing that dent is that the damage is so far away from the door that the rear of the fender could be blended and the door would be spared from a blend, disassembly, etc. This all would take a few days if paint is required.

Aluminum and plastic parts save weight. The hood and fenders have little to do with crash protection and even steel fenders are thin little things. All the crash stuff is in the rails and structural parts. What they do is create high repair costs as replacement is almost always indicated. Dealers get to sell pieces of pressed metal for hundreds of dollars.