1. Home
  2. Car Maintenance
  3. Dent people....

Dent people....

These dent people who come to your car and pop the dents out....

usually needing access to the rear of the dent...

how do the do it? cos if u pop/pull/push a dent out it becomes a lump, if your doing it at a body shop you put a fold in it and fill and paint yea?

so do they use some kind of heat/cold shrinking, but then you need to hit it with a dhrunking mallet and dolly dont you, too hot and the paint falls off, too hard and the paint comes off...

or am i barking up the wrong tree?

just curious

TOM -

Reply to
Tom Burton
Loading thread data ...

I don't know how they do it but AFAIK they don't need to get to the back of the dent. I think you may be assuming they use old fashioned tecniques whereas they may have some cunning way of doing it that you and I don't know about.

Rob Graham

Reply to
Rob Graham

No - they can bash them out from the other side using rubber covered slim tools. Quite clever really, and surprising how bad a dent they can remove if the paint's intact.

Reply to
Dave Plowman

They don't,

I have watched the whole process in a main dealer while waiting around. I don't think that the amount of metal stretch in such small dents can be significant because it obviously works well. (in 20 minutes, one guy took about 20 nasty parking dents out of a VW polo so that I couldn't see them even when I knew where they were. No heat no shrinking, just a very fine pointy nylon tool, which fitted down the window gaps and a weird bit of kit like a barber's pole which he stuck to the outside of the car to give him a reference for where to bash it.)

I was amazed.

Reply to
Brian Jennings

MotorsForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.