I am about to turn in our X5, the car is near perfect except for one hell of a door ding. Seems it violates the terms of turn in because it is through the paint. We also must do a 3rd party (autovin) inspection before turn in, who seem to be less flexible than dealers. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Tube of OEM touch up and one tube of OEM clear coat, and you’re golden. 30 bucks.
While I didn’t get my ding o meter I am aware of them. As I said earlier I’m not concerned about the size I’m worried because it’s to the metal.
I doubt I could do a decent enough job to get that through inspection. Do detailers do this sort of thing?
To the metal is a ding, if there’s a visible hole through that’s a ugly charge
It’s on a door not a fender.
Lol sorry I mean they are going to charge triple if there is a hole.
You are fine, look for long scratches they don’t like those.
Just do the inspection and see if they catch it and what the charge would be. While it is technically through the paint that’s a small ding in the grand scheme, I doubt the charge will be that bad at all.
Take it off-roading after rain and just before the inspection. Then let the guy to find it.
There are two ways a pro could tackle this:
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Auto body: while a decent shop will want $500-600 to do a respray of a door with blending of the two panels fore and aft, you can ask them to respray the door or just a section of the door without blending for less. It (the lack of blending) won’t look that great once you notice though.
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Detailer: touch up paint followed by some wetsanding/cutting as necessary to even it out and not look like a blob like amateur touch ups sometimes do.
You might try your luck returning it as is. IMO there’s a 50/50 chance they charge you.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but IIRC when BMWFS charges for paint they charge for just that panel in question (and not for blending), correct?
If you had purchased excess wear coverage, imagine the peace of mind you’d have right now.
I’m assuming this is sarcasm.
It was part sarcasm, part indirect advice for people whose brains turn to Jell-O® in the finance office.
I’ve always wondered - do millennials know what that is? 
going the way of rotary phones…
On a more serious note - consider getting this
I’ve used it on 3 cars… it’s not perfect, but goes a long way.
There’s been like 4 posts about how to fix.
Why?
It’s included as W&T
I’ve used it. It’s going to leave a blob. Will the inspector note it? IDK.
That’s a tricky one. I once had two body shops tell me their PDR guy couldn’t do something at the base of my A pillar. Had to find a specialist.