Miata Mailing List: January 1994, Message #121
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   From: "craig" 
Subject: Re: Dings/Nicks on Miata
   Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 10:02:19 -0500

Kristan Rivers"  writes:

>   Has anyone tried or had any luck with the "paintless" body repair
> shops?

I have had two sizable parking lot dings removed via the "Dent
Doctor" recently.  They were both dents that had not damaged the
paint.  I would challenge you to find the spots.  I cannot and I know
where they were.  Cost me $50 and only took 20 minutes.  The local
Mazda dealer in College Station TX has this guy come up from Houston
about once a month.  They schedule appointments with the guy for
regular customers.  I spose they get a cut, but its cheaper and a
better fix than conventional repair work.  Apparently you can do cars
with 100's of hail dents and have it come out nicely, but of course
that takes longer.

Were I you I would not hesitate to use this method, but you might
want to try to find some references (perhaps some local folks could
get you the names of some people they were doing work for).  I
called the guy in Houston when I was considering getting my car
looked at and tracked him down at a porshe dealer in north Houston
(doing another visit a dealership arrangement).  He was working on
dealer inventory cars.  I talked to some folks at the dealership and
was sold on the idea.

cb

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Craig Blakely, Assoc. Director
Public Policy Research Institute
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