Rear Spoiler - opinions?

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I recently reversed my coupe into an unseen venting unit in a below-ground car-park. Not a good feeling. The result is three nasty dime size dings across the rear of the trunk lid. The panel beaters are scaring me with their cautionary tales of re-spraying, removing windows, seals, trim, matching colours etc...not to mention the prices - upwards of $1200.

My car is fuel injected, 5-speeder and in good nick though overall the Nacht Blue Metallic paint is fading and definitely no in a-list condition. When I bought the car it didn't have a 3.0 CSi badge on the lid and I never cared to put one there. So, it strikes me now that I could break with tradition and buy a spoiler for the lid for about a fifth of what I expect the dent repairs will cost. Doing so will neatly hide the dings and guess I may even benefit for a bit of extra rear downforce on my occasional "spirited" excursions.

So "to spoil" or "not to spoil" - Am I just creating a faux CSL look that all wrong or should I just do the right thing and get the dings fixed - any opinions??
 
if you fix the trunk

if you fix the boot lid, it'll look so nice in relation to the rest of the car that you'll want to fix the rear quarters, which means you'll want to respray the doors and C-pillars ... and $10k later you'll have a fully repainted car. That said, I'm a bit surprised it's a $1200 repair for 3 small dings. Did it distort the rear lip of the boot lid?

I personally really like discrete spoilers on the rear of E9's. Either a duck-tail or the squared of CSL center piece would look great.
 
Did the damage break the paint, are the dings in a crease? If not, have you considered paintless dent removal? I've used a paintless guy on several of our cars over the years. I'm always amazed at what he can get out, he's an artist.
 
I would definitly go with the spoiler. If one day the need comes to restore or repaint the whole car then I would address the issue and repair it.
 
Thanks guys. One of the dings is a small crease so painless almost certainly won't be able to remedy that. I'm leaning towards spoiler. Guess it's a band-aid solution but a pretty schmick one at that...
 
It's a great idea. If you don't like the spoiler, I'm sure the dings will still be there and you can talk to your bodyman at that time. I'd have a reputable pointless fellow check it first- you'd be surprised of the results.

My $0.02. Post pictures!!
 
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