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Old Feb 20, 2002
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how do u take out dents

i have a bunch of dents and don't want to spend the money. [it 400.00]i've tryed those little sucktion cup things and it doesn't work.....does anyone have any ideas.....mine are mostly from car doors and one shoping cart.
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Dont know if you have em where you live,,,,,,but w/ my 94 jetta.....but paintless dent remover people......they drill a little hole in the side of your door or whatever.....stick a little metla piece inside and pop'em out.........cheap and works pretty well.
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i live in toronto... n yeah.. i got the same problem... a few dents... actually around 10... range from the size of your thumb to a quarter of your palm, how much is it for the garage to take out the dents ?? it's getting annoying coz after everytime i wash and wax my car, the dents seem so obvious... i m not washing my car now because i want to hide them... argh.... um... also got a few scratches, tried the stuff from canadian tire.. doesn't work.. hard wax doesn't work either... so depressed...
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I had the body shop pull out a 4" long dent from the panel behind the drivers door (jacka$$ opened their door into it). They did it with paintless dent removal, it's a heated suction thing that slowly heats and pulls the metal back out. It only works if they're not creased and the paint isn't cracked. It was $125 to do it paintless vs. over $500 to have it painted, and you can't tell there was ever a dent.
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where can i get that stuff ?? i m real anxious now !! =)
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They used that thing off the infomercial! The heated suction thingy! Wow, I guess they're right about body shops really using them
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The one the body shop uses is much bigger than the one on TV (I've seen it) it is also capable of pulling out dents that the TV one wouldn't be able to get. I dunno if you can just go buy the industrial one...
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how much should i b expectin 2 pay to get my dents to go away ?? um..... around 7+ quarter sized ones and a few larger ones... all from doors.. =(
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befriend a dent wizard guy like I did and then offer him cash on his time off to fix your car. My dents were estimated at $300 but I gave him $50 cash and he was happy. No sign of em now
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how much should i b expectin 2 pay to get my dents to go away ?? um..... around 7+ quarter sized ones and a few larger ones... all from doors.. =([hr]
I'm from Toronto, and this guys said he'll do my 3 dents for $100. he works under Insurence Companies...He take those insurence pics for majority of the companies... It was $100 cause i was cool with the guy(cause he had a civic too), but i had no money to do it that time... maybe when me no lazy i'll give hime a call... he's @ Crossroads Area Near Weston and 401

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dat's prettie far.. i m all the way over @ brimley n steeles... in scarborough... $100 sounds good.. i m guessing it will cost me 250+ then.. not much of a problem... hmph... fink it will b alrite ? i dun got a civic nemore.. had a old one.. 96 one... i juss gotta fix sum dents on my 1.6 n my new passat.. sum guy reared me lightly...
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use a plunger
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if it's a small enough dent..you can also use dry ice and a heatgun/blow dryer to pop the dents back out..but this depends on the size.

just put dry ice on the dent...and then heat it up with a blow dryer or something and the change in temperature usually will pop out small dents.
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when you start doing the ice method you can ruin your pain and cause bad hazing in that area. The end results look ok if done properly, but the metal is now weaker in that spot and if you reapply pressure to it, it can come back, forming a bigger dent. Best method= getting a guy/ dent wizard to do it and pay em the $.
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