Advice on repairing door ding

[duy.duck]

My mom was not so careful and opened the left rear door all the way forcefully and it hit our wall. I attached some pics.

Any advice on best cost-effective way to get it fixed? The paint is gone in some parts of it and I can see metal.

Should I just go to a standard professional body repair shop?

Thanks for your advice.

 

[ducktales]

Clean the area with rubbing alcohol, break a toothpick in half to get fine strands of wood fibers and slowly "dot" in touch up paint where you see metal. I'm insanely picky about my paint, but for something like this I wouldn't bother with a body shop as they will probably sand/blend way more than just this area.

 

[duy.duck]

Would the touch up kit from Tesla work? I feel like it would require multiple layers of paint just to smooth out the surface, given that some areas are deeper than others.

 

[Sky-Pilot]

Quick, look up, all our ducks are in order

 

[5_+JqckQttqck]

Would the touch up kit from Tesla work? I feel like it would require multiple layers of paint just to smooth out the surface, given that some areas are deeper than others.

Follow ducktales instructions and get rid of the white. Your eyes will blend it together unless you went over board with the touch up paint and smudged things. Dab dab dab and forget about it.

Or get some PPF and worry no more.

 

[duy.duck]

LOL loves the ducks lining up in this thread!

 

[duy.duck]

Anyone with experience on the red touch up paint?

 

[Msjulie]

Dent Wizard or similar may get the dimples out..

 

[afadeev]

Anyone with experience on the red touch up paint?

Yes, though not from Tesla.
This looks like regular scratch/touch-up paint job (I did not see any dents in the pics).

Here is a YouTube DIY example on how to do it, there are more:

HTH

 

[pscarroll]

Get rear-ended, and if your ding was in the same area as they hit, then you get it fixed for free! That's what happened to me, on the second day of ownership a bicycle parked next to my car fell over and put a ding and scratch near the charge port. Fast forward 6 months, I get rear-ended and they damaged the same panel. Free repair.

 

[duy.duck]

Get rear-ended, and if your ding was in the same area as they hit, then you get it fixed for free! That's what happened to me, on the second day of ownership a bicycle parked next to my car fell over and put a ding and scratch near the charge port. Fast forward 6 months, I get rear-ended and they damaged the same panel. Free repair.

I think you forgot the /s. LOL