So my daughter rode in my new HHR for the first time yesterday. We parked in a parking garage... as she opened her door she pushed it up against the corner of a concrete pillar It could have been much worse. I escaped with very minor paint damage (you have to be looking for it to see it). If the light hits the door just right you can see an ever so slight crease (more of a very shallow vertical indention) in the sheet metal. My heart shattered as soon as I heard the door hit the pillar. She must have seen the look on my face as she immediately said "I'm sorry daddy" with the look of great concern She is lucky I love her so much

Anyway, would a dent guy be able to remove this ever so slight crease? You can't feel anything when you run your finger across the area. The paint I can live with. With the mileage I drive road damage is expected. I've only had this thing 2 weeks...

 

That's why my wife is driving the Lumina and not the HHR :) Can't be mad at them. If you can't feel the crease when you run your fingers over it and you can live with it, don't bother. I'd fix it if it was mine, but I'm kinda weird about things like that.

 

Same thing happened with me. My dad was with me on a short trip and when we stopped to fill up he smacked the door on the concrete block in front of the pump. He told me he would pay for but it was small and not to big a deal, good thing I didnt since it was backed into on that same door a couple months later. As far as getting it fixed I say if its not to bad dont bother, but if its going to bother you every time you look at the door it wouldnt hurt to go and at least see how much it would be to fix.

 

I have a couple of slight dimples in my driver's door that most don't notice, but I do. It's a black HHR and you can see the dimples in the bright sun if you look at it right. I took it to a PDR (paintless dent repair) guy and he said it was too slight to try to fix. Hope you find a guy that can do yours.

 

I let my mother drive my firebird once, and she hit one of those pillars at the gas station with my door. She has never drove another car of mine again.

 

Hey now!

 

Could have been much worse, (as you've stated) she could have opened the door to a car coming beside you & tore the door off, & maybe worse..

Give her a Hug, that's your Baby..

Then call the "painless dent removal guy" in your area & see what he thinks.

And now your new ride has been christened, so enjoy it..

 

It's not her...it's my boys. They can field strip a sherman tank Can't hurt the value of a 20 year old car that isn't worth anything I'd drive that fugly car across country right now, so I feel good about her driving it.

 

 

Black SS + dings = bad attitude! Everytime my Dad bought a new truck, he would bring a cinder block to the dealership and before driving off, tossed it into the bed, He always said that first scratch got to him so, it might as well have been hime to do it (that was until bed-liners became popular, then he didn't put anyting in there for months)