Car dent repair
in Brooklyn, NY
and scratches
gone for good.
Door dings, creased panels, bumper scuffs, keyed doors. Exclusive Collision & Repair handles dent and scratch repair across Brooklyn and color matches the finish so the fix disappears into the rest of the car. You get a free written estimate before anything is touched.
What kind of dent or scratch are we looking at?
Every job on this page starts the same way: work out what the metal needs and what the paint needs, then price only that. These are the six kinds of damage that roll through our Brooklyn shop most, and what each one takes to put right.
Door Ding
A shallow round dent from another car door in a parking lot, with the finish still whole over the top of it.
The fixWorked back out from behind the panel wherever there is access, so the paint on the car stays the paint that left the factory.
Body-Line Crease
A longer dent that runs through a character line, usually from a pole, a shopping cart, or a low wall.
The fixBrought back in stages so the line reads straight again, then filled thin, primed, and refinished across that panel.
Bumper Scuff
Plastic scraped open by a curb, a post, or a tight parallel park, deep enough to show the gray underneath.
The fixSanded back, filled with a flexible material where the cover tore, primed, then sprayed to match the panels either side of it.
Keyed Panel
A long narrow line cut past the clear coat, often running the whole length of a door or across two panels.
The fixCut back, filled where the line is deep, sealed and refinished on that panel, then blended into its neighbor so no edge shows.
Paint Transfer
Another car's paint left sitting on top of your finish after a rub, with your own color mostly intact underneath it.
The fixCompounded off in a lot of cases, which makes this the lightest job on the page and the one worth checking before you assume the worst.
Dent With Bare Metal
A dent that cracked or chipped the finish on its way in, so there is steel showing at the bottom of it.
The fixMetal first, then primer and color, because bare steel starts to rust the moment road salt and rain reach it.
Heavier damage that reaches structure or several panels moves over to collision repair in Brooklyn, and rust, panel replacement and everything else on the body sits with our auto body repair team.
A door ding should never cost you a whole panel.
We fix what got hit and leave the rest alone.
How deep is that scratch?
Depth decides the whole job, and you can measure it yourself in about two seconds. Run a fingernail across the line. What it does next tells you which of these three you are dealing with, and roughly what the repair involves.
01Clear coat only
Your fingernail glides straight across it. The line sits in the top protective layer, above the color, and it usually looks like a scuff that keeps reappearing after every wash.
The fixPolished out in most cases, with the original factory paint left on the car and nothing sprayed at all.
02Into the color
Your nail catches slightly, and down inside the line you can see color that reads lighter or duller than the panel around it.
The fixCut back, filled level, sealed and refinished on that panel, then the fresh color is blended outward so the repair has no visible edge.
03Down to primer or steel
Your nail catches hard and the line looks white, gray, or shiny. That shine is bare metal, and a Brooklyn winter finds it fast.
The fixSealed and refinished ahead of the lighter jobs, because every day of road salt and rain on exposed steel turns a paint job into a rust job.
Swirls, haze and light wash marks across a whole car are a different service again, closer to paint correction than to a dent job. Refinishing that covers several panels runs through our car painting booth.
When a dent comes out without new paint
Paintless dent repair, PDR for short, is the technique of working a dent back out from behind the panel with specialized rods, so the original factory finish is left completely alone. Three conditions have to line up for it: the paint is unbroken, the metal is neither stretched nor sharply creased, and somebody can physically reach the back of the panel. Shallow door dings in the middle of a flat door are the textbook case.
Plenty of Brooklyn parking-lot damage misses at least one of those three. A crease sitting right on a body line, a panel packed with foam and bracing, a ding that chipped the paint on its way in: each of those needs the traditional route of metalwork, thin filler, primer and a refinish blended into the panels beside it. That is the bulk of the dent work we have been doing here for over a decade.
So bring the car by before you spend anything. We look at the panel, tell you which route the damage needs and why, and if your dent turns out smaller than you feared, you will hear that from us too.
One panel, in and out
This Acura came in with the rear quarter and the bumper cover pushed in. The blue marker is ours, from the damage walk-through that gets written into the estimate before a single tool comes out.
Before 
After Cosmetic damage rarely stays purely cosmetic once you look behind it. A pushed-in quarter can hide a bent bracket, and a scraped bumper can hide a snapped sensor mount, which is why the walk-through matters more than the first glance from ten feet away. Anything we find gets photographed, written down, and explained to you before the estimate is finished.
The dent is the easy part.
Matching the paint is the craft.
What goes into a dent and scratch repair here
Same process on a parking-lot ding as on a keyed door. Here is what your car gets, every time.
- A free written estimate with the reasoning in it, before anybody touches the car
- Metalwork first, so the panel is back to shape before any filler goes near it
- Paint mixed to your car's own factory code, then tinted against the panel it's going on
- PPG color sprayed in a heated downdraft booth and blended into the panels either side
- Trim, badges and any parking sensors in the panel refitted before the car goes back out
- One shop for the whole job, so nothing gets handed off halfway and lost
Brooklyn drivers on the small stuff
“I just wanna say this is the best place to go I can promise you that you will never regret coming here I came here cause I had my bumper all cracked and paint chipped and just needed a few minor scratches and repairs done and let me tell you exclusive did there thing I am definitely rating them 5 starts and will be definitely recommending them to all of my peoples !”
“If I can give more than 5 stars I would. Took my 2020 Metallic Blue Honda Civic to fix some scratches and they matched the color PERFECTLY. They did such an amazing job. Can't even tell where the scratches were. Charlie was great and friendly! Would definitely recommend and go back. Thumbs way up!!!!!”
“Charlie the owner is genius. He is friendly, honest and easy to work with. My car pulled into his work shop dented, broken and with many scratches, came out like a new. His team are talented. Priced reasonable.”
“Charlie, the owner was very friendly and honest. Gave me a quote on a paint job on my 2020 Honda Civic, which was honestly unbelievable (he hooked us up). The paint job was done professionally (color had to be specially made for my car), and it looks like nothing ever happened. I was so impressed with the job that I would definitely recommend anyone who needs auto body done to go to this shop. Shout out to his secretary for the great communication as well. Thank you from a very Happy customer! - Wonder Woman”
“Wow .... imprecionado con la calidad primero que todo de personal ... la cortesia y el profesionalismo se destacan en este lugar ... tenia un golpe en el bomper trasero y me lo dejaron mejor que nuevo y me instalaron algunos accesorios que tenia para mi carro con mucha delicadeza y perfeccion muy agradecido .... charlie y su equipo lo mejor de new york para reparación de carros”
“Let me tell u about this establishment, the individual i dealt with "Charlie" was a total Gentleman, which is so rare to come across these days. He is a true professional as well. He made the entire process seamless and painless. A man who STILL stands on his word and truly believes and deliveredi an amazing customer experience!!!!! Thank U Exclusive Collision 4 the Unmatched Astounding Customer experience.”
Dent and scratch repair across Brooklyn
The shop sits at 28 Marginal St W in Cypress Hills, one block off the Jackie Robinson Parkway, so a quick look at a ding is an easy detour from most of the borough.
Searching for auto dent repair near me from outside Brooklyn? Drivers come to us from Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island as well. Send a photo of the damage to (929) 267-9940 and we will tell you what you are looking at, or start on the estimate request form.
Dent and scratch repair in Brooklyn, NY: FAQs
The questions drivers ask us most about dings, creases and scratches.
How much does dent repair cost in Brooklyn?
Can a deep scratch be buffed out?
What is paintless dent repair, and when does it work?
Will the new paint match the rest of my car?
Does a door ding mean repainting the whole panel?
Should I put a dent or a scratch through insurance?
How long does dent and scratch repair take?
Can you fix a keyed car?
Do you fix bumper scuffs, or only metal panels?
Got a ding or a scratch?
Send us a photo.
Tell us what happened and where the damage sits. You will hear what the repair involves, what it will take, and what it costs, before you commit to anything.
Brooklyn, NY 11207
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