An accident has two halves: the paperwork at the roadside and the repair that follows — and the second is where cars quietly lose value. JustCars gives you the whole path from the Loulé body workshop: an independent assessment of the damage, an honest fixed quote after a free inspection, repair with the colour matched on your actual car — or, if the insurer's approved shop does the work, independent quality control of what comes back.
The roadside routine is common knowledge in Portugal: make the scene safe, photograph the positions and the damage before anything moves, and complete the declaração amigável with the other driver if both of you agree on what happened. What that hour also decides — and few people notice — is the repair itself, because the photos you take are the record of what the damage actually was.
Before signing any repair scope, send us those photos on WhatsApp. We assess the damage independently — what is cosmetic, what is structural, what a correct repair genuinely involves — so the decisions that follow are made with the facts in hand. The inspection at the workshop is free and without obligation, and the quote that follows it is fixed.
“The most expensive part of an accident is often signed, not driven — a repair scope accepted in a hurry, before anyone independent has looked at the car. Send me the photos before you sign anything; reading them costs you nothing.”
Dents with unbroken factory paint, removed without a spray gun.
The inspection is free and without obligation; the quote that follows it is fixed.
Final scope and price are confirmed at inspection — these are honest public anchors, not teaser rates.
The body workshop in Loulé runs the honest ladder. Dents with unbroken paint come out by paintless dent repair at €80–100 per panel with the factory finish untouched. Scuffed bumpers repair and respray from €250. Panels that need paint are colour-matched on your actual car — not on a paint code the Algarve sun left behind years ago — and blended into neighbouring panels where the eye would catch a transition.
The timings are the ones we publish for all paintwork: two or three panels typically run four to five days, and a full respray carries a two-to-three-week queue we tell you about before you commit. Where a claim is involved, the repair is documented from first inspection to handover — photographs, agreed scope, written record — so the file supports the insurance process instead of relying on anyone's memory.
Many owners keep the insurer's approved workshop for the repair itself — the claim is simpler that way. What the insurer does not provide is anyone who checks the result on your behalf. That is a separate JustCars service: independent quality control of an insurance repair, from the parts specification before work starts to the post-repair inspection when the car comes back.
The full method — what is checked at which stage and why it protects your position — lives on its own page, linked below. The short version: paint match is verified in daylight, panel gaps are measured, and the paint is measured with a depth gauge, because fresh paint hides shortcuts from the eye far better than it hides them from an instrument.
Yes. The repair is documented from the first inspection to the final handover — photographs, agreed scope, written record — so the file supports the insurance process. We agree the scope with you before any work starts, and the price is fixed after inspection.
Yes. A post-repair inspection covers panel fit and gaps, paint match in natural and artificial light, and paint-depth measurement. You get a written report with specific findings — the full service is described on our insurance repair quality control page.
It depends on scope. Paintless dent repair is often same-week. Two or three painted panels typically run four to five days. A full respray carries an honest queue of two to three weeks before work starts — we say so upfront rather than promise miracles.
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