PDR is definitely the way to go. My old Bimmer suffered some brutal dimples when i lived in St. Louis. Had to get them fixed on my hood, roof, trunk, fenders and doors. My PDR guy basically had price ranges for each panel. The roof cost a bit more due to the interior liner, and so on. It ended up running me about $1000 to fix a good 15 dents or so all over the car. But i was more than willing to shell it out because, like you say, it hurts to walk out and look at it every day!

 

They estimated the cost to be over 10 grand, depending on the cost of the hood and decklid. And up to 4 weeks to complete it

 

Yikes. It sounds like they will be replacing the hood and decklid? That bites big time.

 

It gets below 0 occasionally but I don't have the patience to wait for the weather to potentially fix some of them dents. I'm sure most of them won't fix themselves. I'm hoping the pdr will be all it needs.

 

Before I bought my IS this year, I owned a 2007 Camry Hybrid and it got nailed with hail damage a couple of years ago. The damage on your IS brought back horrible initial memories of the damage on my Camry. I had to make a claim with my insurance and pay the deductible. When I picked up my car after it was repaired, it looked brand new. I was so impressed of the great job the shop did on it and I couldn't find a single puck mark anywhere on the car. If I had to pay out of pocket, the bill would have dinged me $4,800! That's all labor. I don't think they had to install any new parts.

The repair tech used spoon-shaped tools and an elaborate lighting system to repair the damage from the underside of each metal panel. Of course, he had to take the head liner out from inside the car, the heat shield under the hood and the trunk/deck lid liner too. The repairs are done by a very long and manual process. I believe my Camry was in the shop for 5 days total which was impressive on its own. I thought that was rather fast for such damage to be pounded out flat by hand.