The Mk7 side crease is an attractive feature, but so vulnerable.
Opposite extreme, I guess, are those plastic panels on the side of that Citroen thingy. Not vulnerable, but soooooo unattractive! You'd rather have a dent, wouldn't you?
Well no, I'd rather not have a debt at all, lol. But I know what you mean and they would just look ridiculous on a mk7. Though I'm thinking of fashioning my own and sticking them on whenever I have the terror of parking in a supermarket car park.
The Mk7 side crease is an attractive feature, but so vulnerable.
Opposite extreme, I guess, are those plastic panels on the side of that Citroen thingy. Not vulnerable, but soooooo unattractive! You'd rather have a dent, wouldn't you?
Yeah, the sides of newer cars are much more vulnerable to door dings now and the crease in the MK7 Golf makes it even worse!
Think back to the MK5 Golf... it had plastic colour coded mouldings down the sides of the car, so this sort of damage was less likely to happen or certainly the consequences were much less severe! Worse case scenario, you'd have to repaint the door moulding which is a hell of a lot easier than repainting the door.
I never minded the plastic bump strips on my two mk5 GTIs, but times move on and I wouldn't want them now, and the current Golf design is all about razor sharp creases, which makes it all the worse when you have a bloody dent in the middle of one!
I have had the deluxe repair job rough quote (car unseen) which is from KDS Keltec - a 'proper' place that would sort the dent, paint an area of the door, blending into surrounding areas, and re-lacquer the whole door - somewhere between £300-£500!
Which is very similar job and price to a previous repair I had done on a my mk6 when someone left a dent in the wheel arch crease but I went that route then as there was other damage that needed body shop work.
So I'm going to pursue the PDR route now. So if it's a chip and a dent - am I looking at PDR repair first followed by smart repair? PDR seem to do only that and not touching up of chips.