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Deep dent in hood: is it repairable without having to repaint the whole hood?

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Hey folks,

Got distracted and damaged my hood pretty bad this morning. Does anyone know if this can be repaired and the paint touched up? Trying to avoid repainting the whole hood.
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If you can buff out any mark on the paint, then you might be able to have PDR (Paintless Dent Removal) done. I did that on my M3 when a tree branch fell on it. But yours looks like a crease, which may not be possible to fix with PDR. I found a local guy who did PDR from his home. It is certainly an art ! It is worth checking with a PDR specialist.
 
If you can buff out any mark on the paint, then you might be able to have PDR (Paintless Dent Removal) done. I did that on my M3 when a tree branch fell on it. But yours looks like a crease, which may not be possible to fix with PDR. I found a local guy who did PDR from his home. It is certainly an art ! It is worth checking with a PDR specialist.
That was my hope but the scratch is deep and down to bare metal so I'll definitely need paint work. I was just wondering if once the dent is fixed the scratch can be touched up or will the whole hood need to be repainted.
 
There are techniques to fix deep paint scratches, you are better off doing with with somebody that has experience. A good body shop can probably fix this for less than the cost to repaint the hood - you just need to find one. This is not a brand new car so I wouldn’t worry about absolute perfection but if it was just the scratch, it can be fixed so you won’t notice from 3 feet away (without respraying). It involves mixing the paint so it matches well, filling the scratch with paint and paint + clear coat till it covers and raises above the scratch, then letting it dry for 48hrs to a week, then taking a denibber to remove the raised part, followed by localized wet sanding, followed by polish. It’s time consuming, probably most shops don’t bother, but in the right skilled hands it preserves the factory paint and you would only be able to notice up close.

Obviously you have to straighten the dent but what cannot be perfectly levelled can probably be masked with body filler