4. DAMAGE: Who repairs minor damage to my car, its trim and its wheels at less cost than a garage or bodyshop? Also, please list any recommended valeters.

DENTS AND SCRATCHES

For minor dents of the supermarket carpark variety, call 'Chips Away' on 0800 028 7878, website www.chipsaway.co.uk; or 'Dent Devils' on 0870 241 5679, website www.dentdevils.co.uk) who will put you onto their nearest operator. You might also check out S.M.A.R.T.'s website, www.smartrepair.com (tel 0800 074 1052) and www.dentwizard.com, tel 0800 433687. Dent-Magician comes highly recommended. For your local guy, check Yellow Pages. www.revive-uk.com/retail national chain of mobile car body repairer franchises. Yet another is Smart Wise, tel 01444 257342 www.smartwise.com.

London and South East

I've had good service from a Paint Technic operator, Mick Loynes, tel: 07976 445712, or e-mail: mickloynes@painttechnik.sagehost.co.uk (Surrey).
Another is A1 Dents (London), tel 020 8845 0502 or 07989 746895 www.ukdents.com. And another is Ashford International, tel 01784 666610 www.intelligentrepairs.com. www.dentman.co.uk Covers Surrey and London. Also offers 'flying dentman' motorcycle service in London for faster response.
www.dentdirect.co.uk, tel 0800 093 9496 covers Kent.
www.autopaint4u.co.uk covers Sussex.
www.scratch-wizard.co.uk provides a mobile car scratches and a bumper repair service from Bromley, Kent.
www.smartbodyworx.co.uk mobile minor damage repairs based in Rye, East Sussex.
www.smartspraysolutions.co.uk Mobile bumper & car scratches service covering Bucks, Herts, Middlesex and West London.
www.smartagain.co.uk Mobile bumper repairs and car scratches service based in Redhill, Surrey.
www.smartpaintbracknell.co.uk Mobile Car Body Repairs service covering Bracknell & Reading.

South Coast

DENTCRAFT(PAINTLESS DENT REPAIRS), tel 07901 874725 covers the Portsmouth and Fareham area.
www.smartpaintrepairs.co.uk mobile bumper/car scratches repairer based in West Sussex.
www.smartpainteastbourne.co.uk Mobile Car Scratch and Dent Repair service covering Eastbourne.
www.smartpaintchichester.co.uk Mobile bumper repairs and car scratch repair service based in Chichester, West Sussex.
www.carbodyrepairs-sussex.co.uk Mobile dent, scratch and paint repair service in West and East Sussex.

Wales and South West

www.smart-wizard.com covers Dorset.
www.dents-2-go.co.uk Mobile dent and light scratch removal service in South Wales and the South West, tel: 07977 069149 or 01495 756985.
www.lvvservices.com SMART repair company covering South Wales.
www.dentdiamond.co.uk Painless Dent Removal covering Bath, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire email: enquiries@dentdiamond.co.uk, tel: 07868 850020
www.damageundone.com of Melksham very sensibly allows customers to e-mail photos of the damage so it can be assessed before they come out.
www.mrdent.co.uk automotive paintless dent removals in all of south wales including Cardiff and Swansea.

South Central

www.smartpaintnewbury.co.uk Mobile bumper repairs and paint repairs service based in Newbury, Berks

Midlands

Derek Jones has the Chips Away franchise for Kenilworth and is highly recommended (Mobile 07908 806936),
www.dent-out.com covers West Midlands. www.autohealer.co.uk covers the Midlands and is "main dealer approved".
www.dentcraft.co.ukDent Craft based at Sheldon, Birmingham recommended by reader for removing a difficult dent in a swage line BMW quoted £1,200 for for just £90. "Very professional and friendly."
www.uptoscratchrepairs.com Mobile bumper repairs and car scratch repair service based in Tamworth, Staffordshire

North West

www.nomoredents.co.uk covers Greater Manchester and Cheshire.

Yorkshire
Alan Shutt, tel: 07973 619775 recommended for excellent service in South Yorkshire, but will go to West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Notts.

Anglia
www.dentdoctorltd.com Mobile bumper & car scratches service in Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire, established 10 years +.
www.smartpaintnorwich.co.uk Mobile bumper repairs and alloy wheel repair service based in Norwich, Norfolk.

Scotland

www.chips-plus.co.uk mobile minor damage repairs in Aberdeenshire.
www.scuffsmart.co.uk under Mobile bumper & car scratches service covering Glasgow.
www.smartautofife.co.uk Mobile bumper & car scratches service covering Dundee and Fife.


For stone chips and upholstery repairs, try: Chips Away on 0800 028 7878, www.chipsaway.co.uk.

For plastic trim and upholstery repairs, call 'Magic Mend' on 0800 901 902 or Trimline Systems on 01202 480 881 or TrimTech www.trimtech.co.uk, tel 01708 742222.

For chipped or scratched windscreens, call Glas Weld Systems on 0800 243 274 or 01372 362362 in Surrey.
www.glassdoctors.co.uk London & Home Counties Tel: 08704 363636.
On modern cars with bonded windscreens this is better than having the entire screen replaced because removing the old one can damage the car body leading to leaks and rust. (Autoglass and Auto Windscreens and many others offer a similar service.)

For repairs to damaged alloy wheels, try:
A1 Wheel renovations of 345 Bilston Road, Wolverhampton (01902 871422);
Spit & Polish of Tonbridge, Kent (01732 367771);
Wheelbrite of London (0171 431 9015);
www.wickedwheels.co.uk (0870 3003 224) comes to your car to fix the wheels.
www.lap-tab.co.uk.
www.wheelrepair.co.uk Preston, Lancs.
Wheels Approved, 87A Woodham Park Road, Woodham, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 3TQ wheelsapproved@msn.com tel: 07949 202388 or 01932 355356.
www.wheelwarriors.co.uk mobile alloy wheel repairers in Chester in Cheshire.
www.thewheelspecialist.co.uk (Franchises nationally)
www.alloywheelmasters.co.uk mobile alloy wheel repairers based near Blackpool in Lancs.
www.smartwise.com (Franchises nationally)
www.smartalloyrepairs.co.uk mobile alloy wheel repairers serving West Sussex
www.smartalloy.co.uk mobile alloy wheel repairers serving Surrey & East Sussex and parts of West Sussex
www.smartalloyrefurb.co.uk mobile alloy wheel repairers covering Brighton, Crawley, Horsham & Reigate
www.smartalloyrefurbishment.co.uk Mobile Alloy Wheel Repairs service covering Aberdeen.
www.thewheelspecialist.co.uk The Wheel Specialist, Fareham, Hants, speak to Vernon an on 0845 465 4868
www.smartalloyaberdeen.co.uk Alloy Wheel Repairs operating in and around Aberdeen
The Wheel Specialist, Lap-Tab UK Limited, 205 Tyburn Road, Birmingham B24 8NB, telephone 0845 465 4865. First class same day refurbishment.
www.smartalloyliverpool.co.uk Mobile Alloy Wheel Repair service covering Liverpool, Merseyside and Lancashire
www.jagwheeltrims.co.uk Replacement Jaguar chrome wheel trims to fit the S Type, early XKR and the XK/XKR series.
www.prestigewheels.co.uk on site and off site services throughout the North West, High Peak, Manchester, Sheffield, Chesterfield and across Cheshire.
www.smartalloychester.co.uk Mobile Alloy Wheel Repair service based in Chester covering Cheshire
www.smartalloynorwich.co.uk Alloy wheel repair and refurbishment service covering Norwich in Norfolk
www.smartalloyglasgow.co.uk Alloy wheeel repair and refurbishment service covering Glasgow and surrounding area
www.smartalloyberkshire.co.uk Alloy wheeel repair and refurbishment service covering Reading and the surrounding area


Alloy Wheel Insurance
Alloy Wheel Repair Plan offered in the North East of England. The plan covers any kerb damage to new / nearly new cars. The plan covers 4 repairs over a 12 month period for only £89. Website: www.alloywheelrefurbishing.co.uk or you can go direct to the plan at www.wheelplan.co.uk


For an in-house service combining bumper repairs, glass repairs, paintless dent removal, interior and exterior plastic and vinyl repairs, leather upholstery and trim repairs and Connolising, velour upholstery and trim repairs, alloy wheel refurbishment, wheel trim refurbishment, and general valeting, visit the Smart Car Centres at Bircholt Road, Maidstone, Kent ME15 9YP, tel: 01622 609 360 and at 1 Lea Valley Road, Chingford, Essex. Smart Autocentres tel: 0871 733 7337 www.smartautocentres.co.uk

For SMART repairs in Somerset, call 01398 323172, e/mail andy@arcsmartrepairs.co.uk or visit www.arcsmartrepairs.co.uk

For SMART repairs in the Southampton area (New Forest, Poole, Bournemouth, Salisbury, Andover, Basingstoke, Winchester,
Fareham, Portsmouth and Chichester), call 0800 1077833 or 07736 063706, e-mail ruth@re-new.uk.com or visit www.re-new.uk.com (highly recommended for repairs to leather upholstery)

www.smartrepairs.me.uk covers Edinburgh.

Valeters
Gleam Clean ACRS Ltd, Units A-E Orme Road, Worthing, West Sussex
BN11 4ET, tel: 01903 206874, link www.gleamcleanacrs.co.uk For both valeting and minor damage repairs. www.Gleamcleanppy.com

Clean Image www.clean-image.co.uk

BECOME A MOBILE CAR BODY REPAIRER

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GENERAL MINOR DAMAGE REPAIRS SEARCH SITE

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