Dent repair

Clarkey

Clarkey

Clarkey

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Ok, so I've been an epic moron and dropped something on the car, made a tidy mess of it :(

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Anyhow, I have absolutely zero experience of paintless dent repair. I'm hoping someone here can advise me on how good to expect the results, whether it can be done at all due to the location on the roof pillar, and how much I can expect it to cost?

Thanks.
 
I had a couple of dents done on my car last week.

I paid £130 (£65 per panel) and he did a superb job, really can't see anything at all, i'm very impressed as i was a little dubious to say the least!

I asked him how far they can go with dents and he said as long as the paint isn't "broken", they can repair pretty much anything (dent wise).

/edit - I used Dent Wizard :)
 
Biohazard said:
good luck with that, I also have a similar dent in my rain channel.. CANNOT see that being easy to fix other than smothering it with p38
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You'd be suprised what they can repair, put "Paintless Dent Removal" on youtube and watch some of the videos!
 
taximike said:
that would be extremely hard to get behind and roll out!
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Roll out? I'm not aware of them "rolling" when PDR'ing?

Clarkey, give this guy a call, not sure if he will go as far as Wloves but he can put you in touch with who covers that area if he doesnt! Its free to have an assessment/quote anyway :)
 
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Chipsaway fella did a supberb job on my bonnet and door (apple fell from a tree and dented bonnet and some wonderful member of society banged into my door with theirs in the car park and left a nice ding).
 
Bit more of a "pin" dent that my cupboard dropping bonanza, but i'm sure the remedy would probably be the same - probably would pull the panel out (if possible) perhaps by welding a small rod.

Paintwork looks lovely by the way ;)

Justintime said:
(apple fell from a tree and dented bonnet a...)
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Wow, did it fall from the top of a cliff or something? :p
 
A dent on a curve and on what should be quite a strong part of the roof is going to be hard to pull out in a PDR, i'd guess thats a filler job or if you want the metal pulled back out somone will need to weld a little dent pulling key onto it.
 
Gaijin said:
Wow, did it fall from the top of a cliff or something? :p
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Quite high up as apples go. Suspect more than one fell on it as it looked a bit like a venn diagram. Was not really noticeable unless you ran your hand across the bonnet so not too deep, (silver cars, gotta love em). Serves me right for parking right under the blooming tree though in my defence it was about 2am with little street lightning.
 
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Not an expert but it does look like creasing of the worst sort and looks like the paints come off also? So no chance of massaging it back out from what I can see.
 
Well, chipsaway said it can't be done, needs filling. Major disappointment, my nice complete paint job with perfectly uniform colour is turning back into patchwork, exactly what I didn't want :(
 
Clarkey said:
Well, chipsaway said it can't be done, needs filling. Major disappointment, my nice complete paint job with perfectly uniform colour is turning back into patchwork, exactly what I didn't want :(
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Don't use Chipsaway for anything other than stone chips as they are crap at everthing else imo.
 
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