Sorry I don't have any pics the glare was too intense. But it hailed in northern Colorado a couple weeks ago and the roof of my mini was slightly hurt. With sun out I can see little dents all across the roof but they are hard to feel with your hands. Very small but still noticeable. So with this minor hail damage if when I get the roof repainted will it be fixed? Because they don't just paint over it right they actually prime and sand it right?

Also, I've searched around here and it seems around $500 is about what it costs to repaint the roof. Is that reasonable? I've yet to get quotes. I wanted to go from a pw/pw to pw/b. Thanks guys.

 

Does it need paint? If not, investigate paintless dent removal.

 

Dont repaint it, have a paintless dent removal tech take the dents out, you will never know they were there, If you have it repainted to remove the dents they will probably bondo all the divots sand and repaint.
My past experience dont break the paint if you dont have to.

 

agreed with everyone above. have a paintless repair place do it. there are plenty of places now a days that can do it. plus i heard dry-ice works also? just a myth idk. ask around. but painting will involve bondo and sanding and repainting, but im sure itll come out just as good. but factory paint is factory paint...

 

agreed, definitely don't paint if you don't have to, unless you're specifically looking into it to paint the roof black. When I had my civic, my stepdad actually slipped on ice one morning and knocked his head into my quarter panel, leaving a cantaloupe size dent. Had it fixed, repair place did a horrible job of filling it in with bondo and then painting/blending (which was also horrible). About a year down the road, I had to bring the car back (their work was guaranteed for life) because the bondo coloring was seeping through the paint, and there was a very noticeable (in right light) orange blotch glaring through the silver paint. What.a.nightmare. They had to sand/repaint the entire quarter panel again, and it still happened.

 

Ouch, im sorry man

 

The problem with any dent repair on the roof is the headliner. I unknowingly (please don't ask how) bought a JCW on eBay that had been caught in a hail storm and had 12 nice dents in the roof. I first took it to a paintless dent removal guy, who said he could easily take out the dents if I could get the headliner out of the way. The local dealer wanted $1500 to remove and reinstall the headliner and the moon roof. The dealer's estimate to repair all of the dents in the roof was about $2,500 all in, so the removal of the headliner was a major part of the cost. In total, the dealer estimated there was $6,500 of damage to the car.

I ultimately took it to my Dad's hot rod fabricator/restorer who can rebuild and restore just about anything automotive. He did not bother to remove the headliner and moon roof. To keep the headliner from catching on fire when he welded the rivets in to the dents, he first held ice packs on the headliner to get it very cold. He then welded the rivets in place to help pop the dents out. No bondo was used. His all in cost to repair car was $1,700 (compared with the $6,500 estimate from the dealer) of which $600 was for the roof.

It might be cheaper if you don't have a moon roof.

Best of luck.

 

Dang, alright sorry for those inconvenient stories for you guys but I'll look into it. It sounds legitimate and fairly easy. Thanks for all the replies!

 

Repainting anything on your car will severely depreciate its value, but going through a paintless dent removal service will not affect it at all. Just a thought.

 

No dents on the bonnet? It was a hail storm right or was it an arguement with your girl and she threw ball bearings out the 2nd floor window onto your roof...........hey its happend before lol.

 

My last Cooper got caught in a hail storm. 80+ dents all over the car with about half of them being on the roof. The roof ended up being the only part of the car that couldn't be fixed paintlessly because of the headliner and the structural beams across the roof.

 

My thoughts exactly ( on the hail damage to the roof but not the bonnet). I'd check over the whole car just to be sure.