Paintless Dent Repair

[jeg1]

Wind blew driverside door against a concrete pole while getting gas. I was so pissed at myself,always careful I thought. About 1inch dent that looked to have a crease in the center. Located about a foot under door handle and close to the door edge. I took it to a paintless dent repair shop just knowing he would say no way. One hundred dollars later you cannot see any trace of a dent,I am amazed. How can the paint not have a mark on it after hitting a concrete post? The post was painted did this help?

[Irv]

Wind blew driverside door against a concrete pole while getting gas. I was so pissed at myself,always careful I thought. About 1inch dent that looked to have a crease in the center. Located about a foot under door handle and close to the door edge. I took it to a paintless dent repair shop just knowing he would say no way. One hundred dollars later you cannot see any trace of a dent,I am amazed. How can the paint not have a mark on it after hitting a concrete post? The post was painted did this help?

 

You got lucky there!

 

I would feel the same way, totally peed at myself for sure!

 

Are these paintless dent repair shops something new, I have never heard of them before?

[jeg1]

Wind blew driverside door against a concrete pole while getting gas. I was so pissed at myself,always careful I thought. About 1inch dent that looked to have a crease in the center. Located about a foot under door handle and close to the door edge. I took it to a paintless dent repair shop just knowing he would say no way. One hundred dollars later you cannot see any trace of a dent,I am amazed. How can the paint not have a mark on it after hitting a concrete post? The post was painted did this help?

 

You got lucky there!

 

I would feel the same way, totally peed at myself for sure!

 

Are these paintless dent repair shops something new, I have never heard of them before?

 

 

No they have been around for a long time, commonly used for hail damage repair

[dogzapper]

I've had paintless dent repair done a half-dozen times and it is freaking magic. I had a Costco portable garage (the tan tent thingie) go down in the snow last year; apparently Chinese steel isn't as strong as I give it credit for. Anyway, I had four or five really bothersome dents ... four hundred dollars later, they were absolutely GONE.

 

Those guys are magicians.

 

Steve

[fbachman]

I too am a HUGE fan of "dent doctors". In my area, there is a guy :

 

http://www.dentmagicohio.com/

 

I have used him for TWO shopping cart "intrusions" and some mysterious roof dimples I reported on this forum some time ago. This guy, in particular, is nothing short of a magician and artist.

 

The roof dimples were a glue pull, the other dents were done with his tool and a heat gun. AWESOME. I recommend it.

 

Matter of fact, got another one I need to call him about ... another parking lot phantom

[Irv]

I am going to have to look for a place like this up here in Canada, hopefully some are available locally?

Thanks guy's

[dewfpo]

I actually had a reverse dent in my door that was put there by someone at the factory when they were building my truck. Apparently they hit the inside of the outer door skin. No one had ever seen anything like it but the paintless dent guy fixed it, twice, (he didn't like how it came out the first time, so he re-popped it and did it again). When he was done, he used a polishing compound on the area so it wouldn't show.

 

DEWFPO

[2016 Sierra Owner]

Yup I had paintless dent repairs to my 01 2500. We had golf ball sized hail that left it well dented on the hood and roof. The body shop I took it to called them in and it was fixed like it never happened. If there is none in your area call a body shop and see if they have one to recommend. The place I took it to scheduled a bunch of hail damaged cars and called the guy in to fix them all at once.

[Raymond Lowe]

I'm not sure how all these guys do it, but I've heard some use dry-ice to contract the metal causing the dent to pop back.

[scottmoyer]

The dry ice thing doesn't really work. It might help a little, but the damage is still done. On some larger dents, the dent is held in place by a crown. You have probably seen these close to body lines where the metal is harder and the dent wave doesn't rebound. The body line absorbs the wave and is seen as an outward dent, while the actual larger dent is inward. Metal is fluid and flows like water. If you drop a rock in the water, it moves in waves until it hits an immovable object and then the wave distorts. There's your larger dent. The smaller dents are just lightly stretched metal. The metal needs to be shrunk and reshaped. Dry ice can only shrink, it cannot reshape.

 

I'm sure you notice that I do Dent Removal and it is not something to try without proper training and experience. The metal is thin and can easily be damaged by the wrong touch. I've had customers say that I made it look so easy that they tried to fix another dent on their own and totally screwed up the paint and the metal and needed a body shop to fix it.

 

Just remember that PDR is not a replacement for a body shop. I work with body shops and refer work to body shops. The smaller dents with no paint damage is a perfect candidate for PDR. Any paint damage needs a body shop.