I just picked up a saturn as a daily driver bc I keep the teg in the garage...and it's got a few hail dents in the hood. I saw some guy used lighter, foil, and canned air to remove a pretty simple dent here (3rd video down):

http://www.wisebread.com/remove-car-...ly-and-cheaply

Has anybody tried this with a more golf-ball sized hail dent and had any success? Or is this just going to jack stuff up?

 

typically that only works on specific dents, more a less areas that are just pushed in, and most of the time it distorts the panel in other places, the kind of hail dents your talking about, if they do pop up, you will still be able to see them.

 

ya my friend had hail dents on his roof tryed that, kinda just made it worse looking.

 

are u sure this will work for your car?.. if my memory serves me right, the body panels on your piece of sh*t saturn isnt made out of metal.. the body panels are SMC with a space frame...

 

ya arent saturns supposed to be dent restiant or something like that.

 

The doors and fenders are composite, the hood and roof are still steel.