Paint chip/ding question
 

Someone was kind enough to hit/ding my truck in a parking lot and not leave a note. The chips are relatively small (pictures for reference) and on the right rear quarter panel (just below the taillight).

Any idea if this can be repaired without having to re-spray the entire section? Any idea on what something like this should cost before I call the dealer tomorrow?

Thanks for any help!

Requires a repaint of the entire panel, period. They will prep the whole panel, then paint the spot blending it out ... but the entire panel will need to be 're-cleared' out to the seams. Anything less is hokey.

And you meant your X5, not a real truck, right?

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I park far away from everyone else for good reason... that sucks.

I had my front fender repainted and they had to do the entire thing... unfortunately I couldn't tell you how much as it was on the dealer's dime since it was on their lot when it happened.

Why dont you spend $30 on the touch-up paint and see if the results are acceptable to YOU. It is a bumper after all, you will get more of these one way or another... If it will require re-painting of the whole bumper and blending, it will cost many hundreds, and on that scale the throw-away $30 on the touch up paint will not make huge additional dent in your checkbook.

I would estimate $500 to $1000 depending on who you go to, how well you negotiate and how busy they are.

I've had my bumper done twice for similar @$$holes that like playing bumper cars in the parking lot.

I have now decided to do it after accumulating a couple of them and using touch up paint in between.

You have 2 options as mentioned--try the touch paint route if not the panel will have to be painted. If you don't want to screw it up with the touch paint have a paint shop or detail shop do it for you--they have more practice at it.

Seriously?

How can it get any more screwed up than touch-up paint?

If one does a "perfect" job with touch up, it is still bad.

DIY, then get the whole thing done in 4 months when some moron rear ends you....

No I mean screw it up by not having a steady hand when putting the touch-up paint on or you put too much on--like it get's too much of a "blob" look, etc.

I know.

My point is that we've turned into such abject failures as men (and women) if we cannot manage to apply touch up paint.

Have the wife do it- the skill set is putting on nailpolish....

If the other guy left a note and insurance info. I would just take it to the paint shop unfortunately that is not in your case :(

Happened to my X, wife had parked the car at a local park and it was windy. A kid opened the next car's door which blew open in the wind and left a inch and a half ding with some scrapes over the rear wheel well. Luckily they were decent to leave a note. I just took it to a local body shop, they did a fantastic job, can't even notice it. Did not have to paint in my case, but it was expensive from the insurance cos point of view, 600bucks or so.

I would suggest try the touch up paint first. You get a two pack with a clear coat to go on top of the regular paint. The way I did it on my 3 series was to apply a painters tape or something and cut out the exact section where the paint was missing (you can feel it if you run the finger on the tape), then apply the paint freely over the tape and then the clear coat. Peel off the painters tape and it did a pretty good job. Won't be as good as new but was ok for me.