How to fix dent on MG 4 standard edition?

[Sheri]

Hey, so I ended up getting a dent on the rear bumper of my MG 4 after six months of owning it any ideas how I can fix it?

 

[ReintjeWA]

Can’t see for sure if the paint is cracked, but paintless dent removal comes to mind. You need a lot of patience, skill, and the right tools though, might not be something you diy.

 

[Diggsy]

If that’s where I think it is, that part is plastic, so you’ll have deformed it, and there’s no way to perform paintless dent removal on plastic that I know of. You’re probably going to have to smooth it, fill it and then paint it if you want it perfect. Otherwise, just use a touch up to improve how it looks.

 

[ReintjeWA]

If that’s where I think it is, that part is plastic, so you’ll have deformed it, and there’s no way to perform paintless dent removal on plastic that I know of. You’re probably going to have to smooth it, fill it and then paint it if you want it perfect. Otherwise, just use a touch up to improve how it looks.

Oh yes I think you are correct. I'm assuming it is dented on the edge where the boot lit closes. I thought it was one with the rear quarter panel but it clearly isn't.

Some say hot (boiling) water can soften a plastic bumper and allow you to re-form it, but I'm sceptical, especially on a tiny indentation like this.

 

[Tuareg]

Remove bumper and take to body shop for proper repair.

 

[DBedford]

.....or just live with it, till the next dent appears !

 

[ReintjeWA]

True, in some ways the first dent, scratch, or paint chip is sort of liberating too

 

[MG Clive]

You'll probably be able to rub it down slightly with fine wet/dry paper, and then polish it up to disguise/improve it, but without filling and painting it, it's always going to be visible.

 

[DixieTGS]

Oh yes I think you are correct. I'm assuming it is dented on the edge where the boot lit closes. I thought it was one with the rear quarter panel but it clearly isn't.

Some say hot (boiling) water can soften a plastic bumper and allow you to re-form it, but I'm sceptical, especially on a tiny indentation like this.

My brother surprised himself by fixing quite a large dent using some technique like this. I believe it even had a white 'plastic crease' mark on it which more or less disappeared after the dent popped out.

I'll see if can get hold of him and get some details. There's probably a large chunk of luck required to have the right kind of damage that can be fixed in this way.

 

[DixieTGS]

OK, so my brothers damages was quite different in that it was about 15cm across and on the corner of the front plastic panel around the bumper on a Peugeot Teepee.

His method was to stick a hand up inside the bumper and apply moderate outward pressure. With the other hand he used a heat gun to warm the whole area of the dent. At no point did it get too hot to touch on the inside. At a certain point the plastic started to yield, and he just carried on heating and pushing until the dent was gone.

As I thought, there were some large white plastic stretch marks, and unless you were looking for them they were hardly visible after the repair.

Unless you have a good feel for this kind of thing (getting just the right temperature and pressure) it's not something you'd do yourself, but it wouldn't surprise me if some repairers will use this technique where appropriate.

Some touch up or repainting would be required in most cases too.