When your car gets damaged, whether it’s minor dents from a shopping trolley or minor scratches from tree branches, knowing your car body repair choices can save you time and money. At Infiniti Motor Group, our professional body shop has been helping drivers in Essex and East London get their cars looking perfect again for over 15 years. Let’s explain everything you need to know about bodywork repairs and our repair service.
Different Types of Car Body Damage
Your car paintwork is like a sandwich with different layers. Modern car paint has several layers that are very thin, about the thickness of a human hair. Knowing about these layers helps explain why some damage repairs are easier to fix than others.
Light Surface Damage: These are minor scratches that only damage the top clear layer. They’re easy to fix because they don’t go deep. You can test this by running your fingernail across the scratch – if your nail doesn’t catch, it’s just in the clear coat and perfect for paint scratch repair. This can happen from shopping trolley bumps causing scratch dent damage, car doors hitting your car body, and minor scratches from small tree branches.
Medium Scratches: When scratches go through the clear layer into the coloured paint underneath, they become more serious damage and require more serious repairs. You’ll often see the actual colour showing through these affected areas, and they need professional car scratch repair work.
Deep Damage: The worst damage goes right down to the metal in the damaged area. This type of damage requires professional car body repair to stop rust from starting.
Minor Dents: Minor dents come in all sizes, from small dings to bigger bumps affecting the car body. The good news is that many minor dents can be fixed without touching your original car paint through our cost-effective paintless dent removal method.
How We Fix Car Body Problems
Paintless Dent Removal (PDR): This clever technique uses special metal tools to push out minor dents from behind the car body panel. This amazing method can fix many types of dent damage whilst keeping your car paintwork perfect. Our paintless dent removal repair service can fix shopping trolley minor dents, hail damage to car bodywork, small crash dents, door dings, and sports ball hits. The benefits are keeping your original factory car paint, being much faster than normal bodywork repairs, more cost- effective than full resprays, and keeping your car’s value.
Paint Scratch Repair Services: For scratches that can’t be polished out with a simple scratch remover, we use different car scratch repair methods. Light, minor scratches can often be rubbed out using special polishing products. We carefully check each damaged area to see if it can be fixed without repainting the affected areas. Deeper scratches need high-quality colour-matched touch-up car paint with careful preparation and blending.
Full Resprays: When lots of damage affects many panels, full resprays might be the most cost-effective answer. Our body shop uses modern high quality paint systems that are perfectly colour matched to your car’s original finish.
Should You Repair or Replace?
Choose Car Body Repair When: Damage is only in a small to medium area, the car body panel structure isn’t broken, the cost of damage repair is less than 60% of buying new parts, paintless dent removal works for minor dents, and affected areas can be properly colour matched.
Choose Replacement When: Lots of repair attempts have failed, the structure is badly damaged in the damaged area, rust has spread badly across the car bodywork, or repair costs are more than the replacement value for the affected areas.
How Our Repair Service Works
Check the Damage: We look at all damage to your car body using special lights and tools, checking each damaged area to see if we can use cost effective paintless dent removal or normal bodywork repairs.
Free Quote: We give you a clear quote explaining exactly what car body repair work needs doing. Our body shop gives you honest repair costs with no hidden charges.
Expert Fixing: Our skilled workers use the best repair service method, whether paintless dent removal for minor dents, paint scratch repair, or full resprays.
Quality Check: Every car body repair is carefully checked to make sure it meets high-quality standards. We promise all affected areas are perfectly colour matched and invisible.
Looking After Your Car
Remember, even minor scratches and minor dents can cause bigger problems if you ignore them. Quick car scratch repair and damage repair stops rust, keeps your car’s value, keeps car paintwork looking great, and stops expensive repair costs later.
Common Questions
How much do bodywork repairs cost? Minor dent repairs using paintless dent removal usually cost £80-150, whilst bigger dents needing normal car bodywork might cost £200-500. Paint scratch repair varies depending on the affected areas, but our body shop always gives free quotes.
How long does a car body repair take? Simple paintless dent removal can be done within hours for minor dents. Normal car bodywork needing car paint usually takes 2-5 days to dry properly.
Will I see where repairs were done? When bodywork repairs are done properly, you shouldn’t notice the damaged area. Paintless dent removal keeps your original factory car paintwork with no colour matching problems.
Should I claim on insurance? For smaller damage repairs under £500, many customers pay themselves. Our body shop works with all insurance companies and handles all paperwork if needed.
Get Your Car Body Looking Perfect Again
Don’t let car body damage spoil your car’s paintwork appearance or value. Contact Infiniti Motor Group today for expert bodywork repairs that make your car’s body look like new again.
For professional dent removal services in Essex and East London, our expert body shop gives cost-effective solutions for everything from minor scratches to full resprays.
Call: 020 8798 2590 | Email: info@infiniti-motorgroup.co.uk
Visit: Unit 12, Barking Industrial Park, Alfred’s Way, Barking, London IG11 0TJ
