While it wasn’t a lease, I woke up one morning years ago in Atlanta, also with a dent in the hood. Deductible was $1000, bought a hood off Ebay, switched it out then had a paint and body shop paint it.
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I know you’re joking but so many preventable accidents happen because people nurse bald tires to the end of a lease.
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Thanks for all of the replies.
I tried two different PDR services and neither were able to get the dent out - it is simply too deep. The second attempt shallowed the dent a bit, but the paint began to develop a crack. I received a quote from a local body shop (fill the dent, paint the hood, no blending into side panels) at approximately $600. Given what I have read online (especially here) regarding the maximum panel charge of $400 I have opted not to move forward with the repair. The likelihood of further damage occuring prior to turn in and/or a poor repair job at a cost greater than the per panel fee isn’t a risk worth taking.
I shopped around to have my front quarter panel fixed after someone banged it and I was getting prices for PDR for as much as a body shop repairing it. I thought maybe $150-$200, nope. Some as high $500+. Please.
You’re looking at the wrong places, brother.
I called probably 6 or 7 places. No one I spoke to was reasonable. And most of them said that it could be brought back to 100% meanwhile every video I watch online with people doing PDR, they bring it back as if the car literally just came off the assembly line.