Ding-King

I tried it on a hail dent, ended up with a hill instead of a valley. Decided I didn't want to practice again on a good piece of sheet metal as it looks worse than the dent did. Most likely my technique, but not willing to risk another boo boo so I figured it wasn't the worst 20 bucks I'd spent. At least I got a hot melt glue gun out of the deal. :(

Mark

I'd suggest you forget the DIY gadget and look in your yellow pages under "Paintless Dent Repair" and find your local Dent Doctor or Dent Wizard. Take your car to a trained, qualified PDR specialist and have it fixed right. If you try to do it yourself using the Ding King or a similar device, you are just as likely to do further damage as fix anything. What's worse, you can damage the panel enough so that what would have been a simple PDR fix is now a full refinish-and-repaint job at a body shop.

snipped-for-privacy@x.files wrote: Is it worth

I tried it out on a dark blue car. took a couple of trys but the ding came out. Just a slight ripple when looking from an angle. Granted the expensive dent removal guys work well, tried them also. But when your selling the car to buy a Sube, what the heck. mitch

My experience with Ding King was dissapointing. Perhaps my own fault for trying something that sounds too good to be true. The result I obtained after using it was the ding's depression turned into an outward projecting pimple.

It's just my opinion, but run, don't walk from those self-help dent removal products. They will only make it much worse. As someone suggested, spend the money on professional paintless dent removal. Dent Wizard can be scheduled through my Subaru dealer (they visit the dealer regularly and make appointments through the dealer). It's well worth the ~$30/dent. We've had a couple of door dings and Dent Wizard removed them so there's no sign they were ever there. Btw, I'm not pushing Dent Wizard in particular. There are plenty of other professionals that do paintless dent removal.

-LK

Cixcos wrote: The result I obtained

Hi, The guy I used works on high end sports cars (ferrari etc). He WANTED a upward dimple and then he took a body work hammer and a stainless rod. He placed the rod behind the dimple and tapped the dimple till it was flat. Looked great but at 65 bucks a dent, it was a little "pricy". mitch

And this does'nt chip or crack the paint?