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Old Jul 4, 2008 | 03:59 PM
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Pops-A-Dent...anyone?

I have 2 small dings on the hood (dime-size) and I was wondering if Pops-A-Dent product works. Does anyone have any experience with this product? Any better alternative aside from have a professional PDR specialist do it?

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Old Jul 4, 2008 | 04:24 PM
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a dent is a stretch in the metal you cant just pop a dent out you have to hammer them out and reduce the stretch and use filler and sanding to get it back to normal properly
Old Jul 4, 2008 | 05:27 PM
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find a pdr guy, pops-a-dent wont give you the results you want. make sure the pdr guy isnt a rookie, you wont be sorry. our cars have such smooth lines you can always see dents when they are clean. My 2 cents is dont do it
Old Jul 5, 2008 | 09:05 PM
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PDR guy? can you elaborate?
Old Jul 5, 2008 | 09:19 PM
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I think the pops a dent product is more intended for BIG dents like big door dings not dime size pin dents. You can tell by the commercial the kind of dents it pops out.
Old Jul 6, 2008 | 09:49 AM
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PDR guy? can you elaborate?
Paintless Dent Remover.......guy. I had a dude iron out all of my doors and he did a stellar job. Only cost me about $130 for roughly 15+ dings. One of your biggies is Dent Wizard but their prices are decently high. Try and find an independent guy with lots of experience to do it. Don't be afraid to haggle either because he will come down in price if you just ask.
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I've heard that car dealerships will let the cars sit out in the sun and bake. Then they will pour ice water on hail damage to fix it. Anyone else heard of this?
Old Jul 29, 2008 | 11:39 PM
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I've heard that car dealerships will let the cars sit out in the sun and bake. Then they will pour ice water on hail damage to fix it. Anyone else heard of this?
You are thinking of the dry ice way......It works sometimes on some cars....basically you let the metal heat up and then put a small amount of dry ice on the dent and wait......sometimes it pops out and sometimes it doesnt......But like stated earlier it still wont look 100 percent.....
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Originally Posted by VTonmymind
Paintless Dent Remover.......guy. I had a dude iron out all of my doors and he did a stellar job. Only cost me about $130 for roughly 15+ dings. One of your biggies is Dent Wizard but their prices are decently high. Try and find an independent guy with lots of experience to do it. Don't be afraid to haggle either because he will come down in price if you just ask.
Dent Wizard... *** bags re-did my tints FIVE times before they finally agreed to take them off and give me a full refund...think how much wasted time and gas that was considering they were about a 30 mile round trip from me. AND the guy trimmed off some of the linear by the windows when he was etching out the tint and scratched up my trunk...

The owner was nice enough to give me a $100 off coupon if I were to ever consider going back there for anything...

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I've heard that car dealerships will let the cars sit out in the sun and bake. Then they will pour ice water on hail damage to fix it. Anyone else heard of this?
There is a video on youtube and possibly a thread about it in here somewhere. You can use a hair dryer and a can full of compressed air. Heat the dent up for a little bit and then turn the can upside down and shoot the extremely cold air at the heated dent...doesn't work

I tried it on my aluminum hood though, so that's a little harder than other panels...so says the PDR that is going to be doing a few dents soon.

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Old Jul 30, 2008 | 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Hexon
I've heard that car dealerships will let the cars sit out in the sun and bake. Then they will pour ice water on hail damage to fix it. Anyone else heard of this?
its HIGHLY possible..i saw a how-to on muscle cars this weekend of how they shot heat to a dent and immediately put cold water on it w/ a paper towel and the dent came out
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Depending on the material of which was dented...^
Old Jul 30, 2008 | 08:22 AM
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it was metal...i know heat can be applied to plastic/fiberglass and it can be 'remolded' but u still need the fiberglass filler to smooth it out...from what i know




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