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Old Aug 6, 2011 | 02:12 PM
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How to Paintless Dent Removal Technique

I found this and will be trying paintless dent removel maybe tomorow,Gota find out were i can buy dry ice. I'm going to try and do a write up with pic'S. Thought i would share it with you guys..... enjoy

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/820799...asy_and_cheap/
Old Aug 6, 2011 | 02:58 PM
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Ive tried it on my roof, when it was literally 104*F. Seemed to take out some of the smaller dents. Didnt work worth a damn on the larger ones. Good luck, maybe you will have better results.
Old Aug 6, 2011 | 03:05 PM
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I saw some videos where you heat up the area with a hairdryer then use one of those compressed air cans upside down to spray the liquid Co2 onto the dent. Seems like the same concept but the air can method claims to work best on larger dents. Im guessing dry ice is colder and thus works on smaller dings. That would be great because i have two that i could really do without.
Old Aug 6, 2011 | 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by MAXXED_816
Ive tried it on my roof, when it was literally 104*F. Seemed to take out some of the smaller dents. Didnt work worth a damn on the larger ones. Good luck, maybe you will have better results.
I hope it does to, I have like 5 light dents on the roof. You really cant see them but i know it's thier
I guess it all matters were the dents at too, corners thicker parts of metal...ect
Old Aug 6, 2011 | 03:44 PM
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if it doesnt get warm enough it wont work............but on some dents the metal might be to streched out to do anything with
Old Aug 6, 2011 | 06:52 PM
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I'll be trying this. I have two small dents on my roof and one tiny one on my fender.
Old Aug 6, 2011 | 10:52 PM
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I tried the CO2 method on a larger non creased dent and it didn't work worth ****. tried it on smaler ones too and nada.
Old Aug 7, 2011 | 09:11 PM
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Yep tried this on my door panel and didnt do anything
Old Aug 8, 2011 | 10:00 AM
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What the heck, so it does not work?
Old Aug 8, 2011 | 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by mandyfig
What the heck, so it does not work?
it works best on the thinner parts of the body like the roof , it will work it just has to be hot outside.... i'm going to bein doing my roof in a little bit.
i will take pics
Old Aug 8, 2011 | 06:40 PM
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For anyone that's confused. This is NOT how professional PDR techs take dents out. Try going to a body shop and ask about this and you will get laughed at. This isn't a secret that body shops don't want you to know about.

Paintless dent repair techs make damn good money but it takes years of practice to get good at 'pushing' the dents out from the inside or glue pulling and knocking down the highs.


That said, if you're fixing your own dents 100% by using this method then awesome job.

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Old Aug 9, 2011 | 08:50 AM
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Where can you buy this dry ice from? This seems interesting actually. I won't mind trying it
Old Aug 9, 2011 | 09:56 AM
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Where can you buy this dry ice from? This seems interesting actually. I won't mind trying it
local supermarket
Old Aug 9, 2011 | 10:30 AM
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The trick is that you have to get the metal your working on hott. Sunny hot day, heater gun/good blow dryer...ect I't worked for the guy on the video
don't get me wrong it won't work on huges asz dents some body swag a bat at your car dent... but light to medium and some larger hail dent should come up, i'm waiting for a hot sunny to try this
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so have you tried it and it worked? i heated it up with a heat gun so much that it yellowed my paint and nothing happened.
Old Aug 9, 2011 | 10:57 AM
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so have you tried it and it worked? i heated it up with a heat gun so much that it yellowed my paint and nothing happened.
Well thats not good, i guess it was one of those unlucky dents. i guess it matters how thick the metal is at that spot.
Old Aug 9, 2011 | 06:13 PM
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so did you do it yet? On youtube there are just as many videos of that not working...
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