Recommendations repair/bodywork for ND2 (soul red crystal) door& read panel

  1. My model of MX-5 is: _ND2
  2. I’m based near: East London but can travel for good garage
  3. I’m looking for technical help or recommendations on: bodyshop that has experience working on soul red crystal.

Any recommendation for garages that are good matching this paint? Not to worried about travel distance as long as it has some sort of public transportation nearby.

I did not try to contact Mazda since I suspect I’d just be told to get new door, and the rear panel is part of the body as far as I am aware.

Adding some images for context:

(the door lower part is slightly pushed inside, but the worst is the read panel that is 1/4th of an inch pushed in)

Small lapse of judgement (aka don’t deserve my car) while parking and turned my passenger door into a metal parking divider. The door popped back out after I slowly reversed back but the damage on the body panel was done. Been couple of months but just thinking about it (a especially if the paint matching will be terrible..) made me just try to ignore it for a while but with the winter weather, the bottom panel is starting to build some surface rust so don’t want to damage it further.

I got recommended by a friend C & P Panelcraft ( Google Maps ) but after checking their website, they do not specialize in Mazda so I assume they are not experienced with this colour.

Many thanks in advance :folded_hands:

Why not talk to them, they don’t have to be Mazda experts, they may be just what you need, have a chat and see how you go.
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Sorry to see this man. Heart goes out to you. We all make mistakes, and in a way it’s ‘better’ that you did it than someone else.
Good luck getting it sorted. Hopefully it’ll be back to as it was in no time at all :crossed_fingers: