Scraped car door - where to get it fixed?

[Garbo]

My car door got scraped and needs to be fixed up. Not real dents or anything but paint scraped off. Where can I get this fixed or at least an estimate?

[raven70]

Had a keyed car done at Herbs. I have to say excellent customer service and lifetime warranty I think, but the quality was not as great as I would have liked. Clear coat was too thick and had to be buffed out a couple of times. Car was dark blue, so any, even the slightest flaw, shows. I can give them a luke warm recommendation and if a lighter color probably would have never noticed. Google them. They have several locations, and one in Frisco where I took.

http://www.herbspaintandbody.com/

[Sticky Davis]

Originally Posted by Garbo

My car door got scraped and needs to be fixed up. Not real dents or anything but paint scraped off. Where can I get this fixed or at least an estimate?

Unfortunately, I just ran through this exercise with my son's car. He scraped it on a car port pole. But I took it took to all 3 major Frisco area body shops - I just wanted a very small area touched up but they all gave me quotes to paint the entire rear passenger door and back fender so that the paint and clear coat would match exactly. I said it doesn't need to be perfect - just look good from 10 feet away and cover the exposed metal from rust. It's a college kid's car. But all 3 turned me down

So I just took it to AutoSpash and they spent 10-15 minutes compounding all the car port paint off and then waxing the damaged area. It left me with just a couple of exposed areas the size of a nickel and I used a little $5 bottle of touch up paint to cover.

Not perfect and your car is probably much nicer than his Kia. Let me know if you find a body shop who's willing to touch up a few spots for less than a couple hundred. But I wasn't about to waste $700 - 800 to paint the complete panels.

[mikel]

I just had a completely horrendous experience at Herbs, which was surprising since they had several good reviews... They have problems from top to bottom, every dept. After I started having issues, I read through a couple of google reviews and several expressed similar problems that I was having. Would not go back.

[Sticky Davis]

Herb's has always been my "go to place" for years, but it hasn't been the same since Brian Carlock left last year - he was truly the best - I wish they would recruit him back.

[Loves Her Kids]

Have you checked with Kelly at Auto ER? He does painting/bodywork offsite. I had him work on some minor cosmetic items on DD's car, a Kia.

[livestrongmom]

Mike Luna in Prosper has saved us nearly $1500 in three different wrecks our teenage son has been involved in. 972-347-3003. Great work! He will fix and not replace the damaged part if at all possible. The shops around town will replace for the most part and not even try to repair. Worth an estimate for sure!

[willow tree]

We also had a bad experience with Herbs in Frisco. Paint color is not spot on. There were many hassles that just came down to poor customer service. On the other hand, we've had great service from Service King before. They were totally booked so we went to Herbs. We should have waited! Both options are pricey though.

[SkiBum]

Originally Posted by Sticky Davis

Herb's has always been my "go to place" for years, but it hasn't been the same since Brian Carlock left last year - he was truly the best - I wish they would recruit him back.

Huh... interesting! I didn't know he was the guy people always raved about. He's currently in charge of the work being done on my MINI at Sewell's body shop in Plano. Good to have a positive review about him. I've been SUPER pleased so far!!

You can't have him back... he needs to stay at Sewell!!

[Sticky Davis]

Originally Posted by SkiBum

Huh... interesting! I didn't know he was the guy people always raved about. He's currently in charge of the work being done on my MINI at Sewell's body shop in Plano. Good to have a positive review about him. I've been SUPER pleased so far!!

You can't have him back... he needs to stay at Sewell!!

Great to know where Brian went - I may have to go visit him there. Herb's wouldn't tell me where he was at. Tell Brian his number one frequent customer from Frisco (Rick) said hi (I'm the guy that went in there over a dozen times in 4-5 years. Brian just thought I liked the free popcorn and Starbucks LOL.)

Hey most of those people ran into us - and hail got us a couple of times! We're really not bad drivers