Auto body repair — dent straightening and painting after an accident
Auto body repair is needed after an accident or a parking mishap, and also once rust has eaten through a rocker panel. Pick a technician by portfolio photos of repaired cars, prices and client reviews — or describe the car, its color and the damage in an order, and technicians will send responses.
Auto body technicians
How much auto body repair costs
What affects the price
The panel and the damage
A dent in a bolt-on front fender, a welded rear quarter panel or a body line means a different amount of work, and a cracked plastic bumper is repaired quite differently.
Color and type of paint
Metallic, pearl and multi-layer colors are harder to match and apply than a plain, non-metallic solid color.
Blending into adjacent panels
To keep the new paint from standing out in shade, adjacent panels are often blended in too, which adds to the work.
Repair or a new part
A badly crumpled fender or bumper is sometimes better replaced than straightened, and the price of a new part depends on whether it is original or aftermarket.
Rust under the paint
Under bubbling paint on rocker panels and wheel arches there is usually more rotten metal than you can see: it is cut out and patches are welded in, so the scope of work is clear only after stripping.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find an auto body technician
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose an auto body technician
- 1
Work in the portfolio
Look at before-and-after photos: an even reflection in the paint, equal gaps between panels, a color that does not differ from the panels next to it. Look for examples of exactly your kind of job.
- 2
How the color will be matched
Ask whether they match the paint by its code or with a spectrophotometer and whether they check the shade on a test panel before painting the part.
- 3
Where the car will be painted
Check whether there is a paint booth: far less dust settles on fresh clear coat in one than in an ordinary garage bay.
- 4
An estimate for each panel
For each panel, ask for a breakdown of what straightening, prep, paint and clear coat, removal and refitting will cost. Agree that hidden damage will be repaired only with your consent.
- 5
The layer of body filler
Ask how the technician will level the metal: a well-pulled dent is finished with a thin layer of filler, while a thick one can crack over time.
What to put in the order
Make, model, year and color of the car — and the paint code, if you know it
Which panels are damaged and how: a dent, a scratch, a crack or rust
What you need: one panel repaired, spot painting or a full respray
Whether you already have new parts to fit, or the technician should source them
Whether the car can be driven, or it will have to come on a tow truck
When you can leave the car and how many days you can manage without it
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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