| Author | Message | ||
     Mark (Mrroverman) New Member Username: Mrroverman Post Number: 18 Registered: 02-2003 |
A shopping cart hit my right rear passenger door. The ding is aound 4 inches long. Can that be fix without painting it? And how much do guys think its going to cost me. Pls help. Thanks. mark | ||
| Dan Armbruster (Dan_armbruster) Member Username: Dan_armbruster Post Number: 57 Registered: 04-2003 |
Yeah just take it to a paintless dent removal and they'll charge you around 75-100 depending on how hard it is to pull out. | ||
| Damien Choi (Gooddude44) New Member Username: Gooddude44 Post Number: 10 Registered: 03-2003 |
Mark, they may have to drill a small hole on the rear passenger door, if they can't get to it easily. Then they bang the door out and put a small plug on it. Around $75-100. I had the same thing happen to my other car, but I decided to live with the ding, because I didn't want to drill a hole inside the door. If you don't want a hole in your door, make sure you ask before they start. | ||
| Neal Glessner (Nealg) Senior Member Username: Nealg Post Number: 636 Registered: 02-2002 |
you can get a Ding King dent remover from Walmart for about $20. I have about 35 company trucks are we use our a lot. It really works depending on the type of dent. I would think that a dent from a shopping cart should be repairable. http://www.touchlesstrashcan.com/share/cgi-bin/site.cgi?site_id=touchlesstrashca n&page_id=dingking1 | ||
| M. K. Watson (Lrover94) Senior Member Username: Lrover94 Post Number: 745 Registered: 02-2002 |
you can save the cash and pretend that the damage occurred while off roading and not sitting in a parking lot. imagine you could impress your buddies, dazzle the babes, who knows where this could lead. mike w | ||
| daniel gura (Dhglax) New Member Username: Dhglax Post Number: 17 Registered: 04-2003 |
Hey Man....you may not have to drill a hole...I had about 10 dings pulled out of my car from a dent wizard guy.....call up the guy...ask him he can do it on the side.....I went to the guy's house...he fixed the dents in his garage..and charged me 200 total....awesome.....car looks new.... | ||
| Jonathan Hensel (Nanoscale) Member Username: Nanoscale Post Number: 54 Registered: 03-2003 |
Those dentless repairs are great, I had a mobile one come fix a ding on my hood from a football. They use a black light at a certain angle and wedge-like tools from behind to massage it back into place. If you watch really close you see the tool subtly bulging the material back into place. Not perfect but very hard to detect afterwards, and they have to be able to access it from behind. | ||
| Brad Russell (Bradnc) Member Username: Bradnc Post Number: 224 Registered: 03-2002 |
If you were going to get the door repainted by a good shop it would cost about $500 cash or $650 via another payment method. That's what we'd charge at least. I'd say just live with it or get the paintless stuff done. Hope it works out. | ||
| Roland Kutasi (Disco1) Member Username: Disco1 Post Number: 68 Registered: 10-2002 |
Here's a method I saw posted sometime ago (don't remember where). Blow hot air onto the dent using your wife or girlfriends hair drier (maybe your own) and heat it up, then place over it some dry ice (wrapped in a cloth). The sudden contraction sometimes is enough to pop out the ding. I have tried this method on a number of dings with limited success. Worth a try! | ||
| Neal Glessner (Nealg) Senior Member Username: Nealg Post Number: 643 Registered: 02-2002 |
Even though I own a ding king, I might try that the next time. While you have dry ice on hand. Put some dry ice in a 2 liter bottle with some water and screw the lid on tight. Wait about 5 minutes and KABOOM! It sounds like a firework! |
