Gnarly Roof Dent - Opinions on fixing? (1 Viewer)

[Jakeonio]

Hey all. Unfortunately during one of the many Texas rainstorms we’ve been hit with lately, I backed down a driveway late at night with a trailer and couldn’t see a massive branch. My driver’s side roof got absolutely smashed in. Pictures are difficult to take because the reflection of light doesn’t do it any justice. I’ve attached the best I could do.

Everything on the interior seems to be unaffected and as far as I can tell it’s mostly cosmetic, however water also pools up and will certainly accelerate paint wearing out, right? Curious if y’all would fix or leave it alone.

 

[brasskey]

Hey all. Unfortunately during one of the many Texas rainstorms we’ve been hit with lately, I backed down a driveway late at night with a trailer and couldn’t see a massive branch. My driver’s side roof got absolutely smashed in. Pictures are difficult to take because the reflection of light doesn’t do it any justice. I’ve attached the best I could do.

Everything on the interior seems to be unaffected and as far as I can tell it’s mostly cosmetic, however water also pools up and will certainly accelerate paint wearing out, right? Curious if y’all would fix or leave it alone.

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Google paintless dent repair shops in your area and get appointments with high reviewed ones for some estimates. I’ve had dents taken out of cars from a good reputable shop locally and it’s amazing what those people can do. I would assume for the right shop, this is not a tough job. I’ve seen pictures of much worse be fixed. They obviously would have to drop the headliner, but on a previous 200 series I had, there was a bunch of roof and hood hail damage and they got it all out of there and the headliner back in perfectly.

 

[Jakeonio]

Google paintless dent repair shops in your area and get appointments with high reviewed ones for some estimates. I’ve had dents taken out of cars from a good reputable shop locally and it’s amazing what those people can do. I would assume for the right shop, this is not a tough job. I’ve seen pictures of much worse be fixed. They obviously would have to drop the headliner, but on a previous 200 series I had, there was a bunch of roof and hood hail damage and they got it all out of there and the headliner back in prefectly.

I’ve got a great guy around town I could use just not sure it’ll be worth the money. Surely will be a big bill but an estimate is free!

 

[Moby]

I had hail damage when mine was three months old. A good paintless dent repair can do amazing things. Because I like all forms of metal fab (different than being good at them) I spent a bunch time talking to them and watching them work. I had roof damage and hood. They didn't even have to pull the headliner. They mentioned that there are paintless dent repair guys that follow hail storms and just do insurance work.

Also, they had a LS9 crate engine sitting ready to go into a cherry tri-5 so I knew they were good folks.

To your original ask I obviously fixed mine. But it wasn't for functionality of the vehicle in any way.