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You are being measured against a sheet, not an opinion.
A lease inspector is not judging your car by eye, they are checking it against a written damage tolerance with a dollar figure attached to each line. The job is to get the panel comfortably inside that tolerance before the inspection, which is almost always well under the charge they would apply for leaving it.
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A lease inspector is not judging your car by eye, they are checking it against a written damage tolerance with a dollar figure attached to each line. The job is to get the panel comfortably inside that tolerance before the inspection, which is almost always well under the charge they would apply for leaving it.
Most leasing companies publish their wear and use standards, often with a credit card sized template for what counts as acceptable. Send us yours and we will read theirs rather than guess, because different companies draw the line in different places.
A leasing company bills excess damage at body shop rates whether or not anyone repaints the panel. Paintless repair beforehand is routinely a fraction of what they would charge you for the same dent.
You are not being graded on the last few percent and nobody in that chain will look for it. Paying past the tolerance buys you nothing you get back at turn-in.
Tell us when it has to go back when you send the photos. If the timing is too tight we would rather say so straight away than take the car and find out.
Usually yes. Leasing companies bill excess damage at body shop rates, and paintless repair beforehand is routinely a fraction of that charge for the same dent. The exception is damage already inside their written tolerance, where you would be paying for nothing.
Each leasing company publishes its own standard, often with a template showing the maximum acceptable size. That is why we ask you to send their guidelines rather than guessing, because the line is drawn in different places by different companies.
As soon as you have the inspection date. Most lease-return dents are same-day work, but booking with room to spare means a surprise on the panel does not become a surprise on your bill.
There is nothing to find. Paintless repair does not fill, sand or respray, so the factory finish is untouched and a paint depth gauge reads exactly as it did from the factory.