VW Passat end-of-lease inspection. Paintless dent removal on the dents, scratches polished. Advice on what to fix and what to leave to stay below the recharge threshold.
An end-of-lease inspection is not about fixing everything -- it is about fixing enough. The lease company's threshold means they will not send you a recharge if the total damage is below a certain point, because the admin cost of billing you outweighs what they would collect.
The plan on this VW Passat: paintless dent removal on the dents, polish out the scratches, and leave anything where the repair cost approaches the likely recharge. Body panels with scratches that a lease company would charge for repair-and-repaint are often cheaper to address with machine polish than you might think. That is the kind of judgement call our end-of-lease inspection provides.
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