Damaged Hood....Fix or CF Hood

[Rousie13]

So this past weekend a plastic tote fell off of the wall shelf in our one garage and landed on the hood of my Civic. There are two large dents and one smaller dent in the hood now. There were a lot of scuffs as well, but I was able to buff most of the scuffs out. If you look at the right angle, you can still see where the tote slid down the hood. I got an estimate for ~$500 for paintless dent repair, but I'm not sure if it will come out perfect and the scuffs are still there......not positive I can get them all out even with more buffing. One shop quoted about $1150 to repair the hood, but they would need to blend it into the passenger fender since I have the Modern Steel Metallic. Another shop that we took my wife's Audi too before said they would not repair the hood since the skin is considered high strength steel, so they would only replace the hood and that would require blending into both fenders....estimate was $2100. The fenders are flawless, so not a big fan of having to have them repainted. So that made me think about the Seibon OEM style carbon fiber hood($700-800 plus hood pins, but not sure I want to do that either. The car is only 7 months old with ~6500 miles on it. If you installed a carbon fiber hood, where did you install the hood pins?

The pictures don’t show the dents that well and the scuffs need to be seen at the right angle.

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[aegeanbluecivic]

Pictures go a long way brother. What is the cost for the Carbon fiber hood?

 

[BoostedSiCoupe]

you can make an appointment with a dent doctor who will work that ding out with heat and massaging.

i always felt that carbon fiber hoods only look good for like a year then they look ugly like doo doo

 

[MarkR171]

Took me awhile to see it. PDR will get that out. Carbon fiber hoods look dumb.

 

[SUL73NAZ]

I like the carbon but I would check to see how much it is to repair first

 

[WhiteCastleKid]

I did PDR work a few years ago at a speed shop, this can be done. Call around and find the one with the longest experience. PDR techs need a ton of work to master it. I was good, but my boss was a miracle worker. Had a BMW in that this guy’s GF kicked in, when he got done, I was like never there. Yup..there are guy out there that are super good. I feel for you...

 

[Captaindicki]

How much to replace with a new oem hood?

 

[Rousie13]

How much to replace with a new oem hood?

I was told $2100 to replace the hood and repaint. I can get the hood cheaper than they quoted me, so that would take it down to around $2000 to replace/repaint.

 

[SUL73NAZ]

Yeah pdr should be cheaper than that I would also look into getting a carbon fiber hood

 

[Rousie13]

I talked to a body shop today that only works on Honda/Acura vehicles (they do a lot of repairs on our company vehicles). They said they could try PDR first (they have someone come at night that actually works at a Honda plant, so I'm assuming he's pretty good at doing this), then do the traditional repair if the PDR doesn't turn out to my liking. If the PDR doesn't work, then they would only charge me for the traditional dent removal/repaint of the hood/passenger fender, and not charge me for the PDR. They quoted me $400-500 for the PDR or ~$1100 for traditional repair.

 

[2tone]

Maybe try and find someone with modern steel who swapped their hood and buy the oem from them.... can’t imagine it’s an easy find but you never know

 

[thatlilwhiteone]

1100 for a couple of dings? Damn. I'd drive around like that until it was time to sell it or if you plan on keeping it you can wait until 10th gens are more common and you can get one way cheaper. what if you pay to get the hood fix and then next summer you get caught in a hail storm or a few months later somebody pulls out in front of you?

Or at least change our insurance wait a couple months and have them fix it for free.

 

[REBELXSi]

Or at least change our insurance wait a couple months and have them fix it for free.

You mean insurance fraud?

Buy a hood and wrap it.

 

[thatlilwhiteone]

You mean insurance fraud?

Yup exactly that! Someone pays an insurance company 10 years without a claim, you damn right they fixing my hood for free. foh.

 

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