Dent pop trick????

[lestat13]

It finally happened! Someone opened up their car door into my front fender! There is a trick I know that will probably work to help fix it, but I know that our paint jobs are very sub par, so I thought it best to post up for help BEFORE I try this trick....

With my old car I used a bunch of dry ice to make the dent and surrounding area very cold. Afterwards, I just waited. As the area warmed back up to normal temperature, most of the dents actually flattened themselves out!! I was very surprised and happy that this worked.

Think this could ruin our bad paint?

 

[jville]

i think it would be very damaging to you paint job. I got a dd the other day on the drivers door, i just popped off the door panel, and rubbed it out fron the inside.

 

[FrequentFlyer]

Just pay someone $75-100 to do paintless dent removal on it. Once you screw up the paint, there's no fix.

 

[mrlilguy157]

another trick is canned air upside down.

 

[Super Unique]

another trick is canned air upside down.

We use this one around the office to really catch coworkers off-guard

 

[zilch321]

Rapidly cooling a small part of your body panel to more than -100F seems like it could do damage but what do I know, I'm neither a metallurgist or a chemist and most people on this channel probably aren't either. Even then it depends a lot of the paint and also the properties of the panel its sitting on.

One thing I am sure of - a paintless repair shop trip is much cheaper than a trip to the paint shop.

 

[Rotus8]

I have heard the opposite version of this. Heat the panel with a hair dryer, then give it a shot of cold spray or canned air upside down. I haven't tried it myself, but a reliable source described it to me.

 

[Subsparx]

It's pretty much the same concept as the dry ice I believe. You heat the panels to create a similar temperature difference compared to using dry ice.

 

[lestat13]

So its either cold then hot, or hot then cold....

BUT

DON'T try it on our cars cause our paint sucks

Is that right??

 

[Subsparx]

Well, *supposedly* the method of heating your panel up with a blowdryer or something similar, then using the compressed air upside down is not supposed to hurt the paint at all. I haven't tried it yet on my car, but I'll let you know. I have a Silver MSP, with a rather hideous looking dent in the back of the trunk. Considering I'm going to replace the trunk with a CF one anyways, I might as well test it there before I do it on something that I'll have to repaint later if it messes it up. I'll let you know by the end of the weekend how it works out.

 

[Hyun]

Yes please do, i have compresed air can here sitting on my desk. This will be cheap easy fix to 13 dents i have.

 

[ComeBack]

Yes please do, i have compresed air can here sitting on my desk. This will be cheap easy fix to 13 dents i have.

Damn 13!! ill probably cry once i get 1 lol

 

[Hyun]

Yup, all i gotta say is .............





it hurts.

 

[Oldcabin]

I tried the hair dryer - canned air approach on my old pickup --- didn't work.
My hot must have been too cold, or vice versa

 

[phillyb]

hmmmm. this will be an interesting fix. i have one tiny dent on the front bumper that drives me ******* krazey. if there was a way to easily remove it cheaply, i'd be all over it

 

[Subsparx]

I believe it depends on the dent size. I've seen it work on huge dents, not sure if it'll work on smaller dings which is what I'm personally hoping for. We'll see.

 

[Young Roids]

I have a small ding on my fender. Did the compressed air/blowdryer and it didn't fix the dent all the way but it didn't hurt the paint either.

 

[lestat13]

I have a small ding on my fender. Did the compressed air/blowdryer and it didn't fix the dent all the way but it didn't hurt the paint either.

Did you heat and then cool..... or cool and then heat?

 

[Subsparx]

You heat then cool. Use a really hot hairdryer/blowdryer for about a minute on it, then you use the compressed air upside down at full spray for roughly 1 minute on the dent and surrounding area, then let it warm up a bit until there is no more ice, just the haze from it being cold and wipe it off with a rag.

 

[Young Roids]

I heated then cooled.