I've been talking with a local guy who has been removing dents the paintless way for 7 years. He has 1 vouche on the local forum and also claims to do really good work. He e-mailed me some pics of his work but can't really see much looking at resized pics. Anyhow, the guy cuts a deal for those on the local forum 10-15 dents about $150.

The guy said he does NOT drill any holes and should be pretty easy since my car is apart / no panels to remove.

Will the dents ever come back? Is this a safe way to remove little dings and dents.

Thanks for any input!!

PS <> I wanted to get some info on this. The guy should be coming out to look at the car this week.

 

I had a demonstration at my school where a PDR guy came around and showed us what he did. He did a pretty good job on a few dents but to the trained eye you can still see it. To an untrained eye it will be good as new.

 

/\this guy tells the truth. To the trained eye, some dings can still be seen but only when you move up and down or side to side looking at where the old ding use to be. Some dings come out perfect. On my 98 Civic coupe, I had a guy who works at gary force honda here in bowling green to remove 10 dings and he charged 75 bucks. If you get on PDR forums, that is ridiculously cheap. Except for one just one ding that was on a body line you cant tell they were ever there, u another time I had a deep ding removed as well as a small wave behind it from a small garbage can falling on my car, and the ding came out pretty good but the wave is still there. In my experience and from chatting on PDR forums, its the small waves that are hard to get out. The larger/deep dings are much easier to get out. If the guy is good, $150 for 10-15 dings is SO worth it.

 

sorry for thread jacking but i was wondering if a pdr guy could take this out... had a little accident with a fence one late night.. ahah.. it doesnt have to be great cuz i'mma have the car painted again, but i just want it pulled out...

 

PDR is hit or miss most of the time. With my expierences with PDR guys coming to the shop they make get rid of the dent leaving the whole area looking worse by making it really wavy. Now there are deffinetly some good guys out there who can really do a excellent job.
Also these guys will drill holes in your doors , etc to get the the area. Exposing bare metal (paintless my ***).

 

theres a method involving dry ice or c02 in a can or w.e I've seen a video of it, and its pretty amazing. It pulls the dent right out with no paint damage or anything.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hondaboy4life &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">theres a method involving dry ice or c02 in a can or w.e I've seen a video of it, and its pretty amazing. It pulls the dent right out with no paint damage or anything.</TD></TR></TABLE>

ANYMORE INFO ON THIS METHOD....interested

 

Did a google search on dent repair and found this: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/...uster/

 

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Save yourself the time and money on a simple dent like that. Just go from the inside and push it out.

 

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Save yourself the time and money on a simple dent like that. Just go from the inside and push it out.</TD></TR></TABLE>

A lot of small dents won't push out that easy.

 

this is a video of the dry ice removal it almost makes me wanna dent my car to try it out

http://www.filecabi.net/video/20494805.html

 

Pretty tight!!!!!!

 

that vid is pretty sweet....wish i tryed it when i was removing my sound den. ****

 

Im going to try this today i have dry ice in my lab

 

On my integra, the PDR guy didn't have to drill any holes to access my doors. The only hole he had to widen was one near my rear bumper.

Anyways, if I were to ask someone to find where a dent used to be, and I give them a specific panel, I'd give them little chance of finding the dent within 10-15 seconds of close inspection. The lighting has to be just about perfect for them to see the leftover marks from the rubbing and hammering.

Of course this all depends on the experience level of your PDR guy... If anyone wants a good, cheap PDR guy in socal, pm me.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2R3QQejjGI

someone try it and see if it really works.

 

has anyone tried the dry ice or canned duster methods yet?