Dent repair on Wife`s car.

[jeffc]

Hi Peeps.

Wife came home yesterday after a shopping trip. Yes some barsteward had bumped the nearside front bumper & wing, did not leave message or wait to tell her.

Went onto youtube and read saw this.(googled dent repair methods).

Strip off inner wheel arch plastic shroud, thus able to get to dented area. Then using "hair dryer" set at hot pos`n, heated up the area of dent. Then slowly pushing from inside managed to get metal to spring back to original state.

Could not believe that a dent as deep as an grapefruit, could be repaired in such a manner.

My only regret is that I did not take pic of before and after fix.

Local garage had estimated a charge of £503 for repair, so chuffed, feel just like the day I vaped on my first Ego twist with evod fitted.

Money saved now available for more vaping gear, Yippeee.

[sammy13]

Excellent story, it's so good to hear things like this, not how the dent happened but that you were able to repair it and save all that money

[Karma]

Well done jeffc

I've saw the amazing effects of a plunger being used before to pull dents back out

TBH I don't care about dents and dings on my car so long as it goes ok and I'm so lucky to have a SIL that's a bit of a wizz with car stuff. It is blummin annoying though when these things are another person's fault and they just drive away.

[enjay]

You know she could be fibbing about the mystery barsteward, you know what women drivers are like

[sammy13]

Mar 29, 2014 19:30:24 GMT enjay said:

You know she could be fibbing about the mystery barsteward, you know what women drivers are like

A car is not truly yours until you have crashed it, that's my motto.
Didn't like the repair bill on the mazda fastback when it collided with a lamppost though
The rest - well it's yours then isn't it

[enjay]

Mar 29, 2014 19:34:48 GMT sammy13 said:

Mar 29, 2014 19:30:24 GMT enjay said:

You know she could be fibbing about the mystery barsteward, you know what women drivers are like

A car is not truly yours until you have crashed it, that's my motto.
Didn't like the repair bill on the mazda fastback when it collided with a lamppost though
The rest - well it's yours then isn't it

As long as you don't drive anywhere near me!

[Karma]

I see you're in Scotland enjay best watch out for me cause I agree with sammy13 a car isn't really yours until you've left your marks on it

Quality bumpers are essential

[decoy]

Lol stop telling our trade secrets
get some 3m g3 buffing paste to get rig off any light scraches on paint

[sammy13]

Mar 29, 2014 19:51:03 GMT enjay said:

Mar 29, 2014 19:34:48 GMT sammy13 said:

A car is not truly yours until you have crashed it, that's my motto.
Didn't like the repair bill on the mazda fastback when it collided with a lamppost though
The rest - well it's yours then isn't it

As long as you don't drive anywhere near me!

I don't hit cars, oh well apart from the one I reversed into in the petrol station.
I usually try to go over roundabouts, literally, they just spring up sometimes, apart from that it's lampposts, bollards, trees, daft things that jump out in front of you

[Karma]

Low walls are my problem sammy13 if your going to build a wall, or put a bollard up, make sure they are tall enough to see when folks are reversing

[enjay]

You guys really ought to buy a car with windows lol