dents question
 

I am tryin to do my best to fix my alero that i had bought
i have two big dents (one on the roof and one on the hood) and a bunch of door dingers
any one have any ideas how to get the little ones out with out havin to pay to get em fixed

thanks!

hoods, roofs, deck lids, are the hardest to get dents out, some can be removes by paintless dent removal, or if they cant do it then thats where we step in and fix the dents
i suggest not tryin to fix the hood and roof, due to the lack of experience, and due to the dents you want to fix are on the worst panles on the car
so i suggest tryin pdr or have the panles fixed

I am not sure about this but a friend told me this. He told me to get one of those cans that blow air. I dont remember what its called, but they use it to remove dust from keyboards and stuff. After you get the can, he told me to just blow a big bunch of air with the can onto the dent. After that, just let it cool down and supposedly by when its cool, the dent will lift out. You may want to look it up on youtube, thats where he told me he saw it. Someone also once suggested to me using a plunger, but that sounds wayyyyyyyy to ghetto, even for me.

lmao yeah i had a body shop look at the one i have on the rear driver tire well and said they would charge 500 for it to be fixed and painted

i just wail around it with a ball pein hammer until the whole fender is the same depth as the first dent. "if you can't beat them,join them" mentality. :lol:

wow, no sorry dude compressed air in a can will not get dents out, sometimes real small dents i can pop out with my torch, but were talkin about a dent the size of a quater
i suggest paintless dent repair and go from there

I've also heard that dry ice can actually pull out really mild dents as well. But I agree with the paintless dent repair. I'm going to try that with my wife's car probably before we sell it.

Me too. I heard it and saw it work. Might try it.

the whole compressed air idea is funny because the air coming out of those cans is COLD not hot. so how would it cool down?

dry ice method does work on small dents, i wont go into the process for it to long to boring
dude how would cold air cool down???
so dude try PDR first

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miNykNl-0NM

hate to prove u wrong but watch

i dont give a flyin rats ass wut video u post i know it wont, so for that video your banned

well just because u dont use that way doesnt mean it doesnt work though

You're banning him for showing a video about fixing dents that works, and just because you don't beleive it?? Did you not take science in high school, or have you even made it to high school yet?? It is basic physics, that proves in itself that it works!!!!

its alright kilroy the guy doesnt want to listen so thats perfectly fine. he just doesnt want to hear the truth that it works. im sure he has alot of experience with working with dents it may not exactly be the "perfect" way to get the dent out entirely but it does make it not noticeable.

Adam337, I actually meant the opposite of cool down, which I guess is Warm down. My bad

oh ya your all right, iam such a dumbass, oh me oh my what am i goin to do i was called a dumbass online i must go slit my wrists now
laugh all you want while you were suckin on momma`s nipple i was in a shop learning a trade that makes me money and made a name for my self
so no iam sorry iam not a cool desk jocky like allot of you kids on here so i guess that makes me a complete dumbass

yopu know i think the one should be banned is bdyman he seems like an egotistical run your mouth big shot that prob isnt nothing ...i mean he had no right to just be a complete jerk for no given reason

lol i have been banned so many times it dont bother me, but when iam attacked i attack back, so let me get this straight you want a 15 yr jorney man to believe that a can or compressed air can take a dent out is this right, so when i go to work on monday, and try to remove a dent with my blow gun becasue it is compressed air right, and when my boss see`s me doing this and starts to laugh his ass off, i should tell him no no wait scot some kids on a forum told me that if i take compressed air i can remove this dent, or even better yet maybe compressed air can pull frames, ya!!! or or maybe compressed air can fix b-pillars,, 1/4 panel,, hell i could be a effin millionaire all becasue of compressed air
now c`mon anyone with fab`n skill knows that heat/ and cold shrinking WITH A HAMMER shapes metal
i would be the laughin stock at the shop, but i will tell everyone that the kids on aleromod.com are way more knowlegble then some old guy hell i dont know shit compressed air is the shixnit right, what was i thinking?!?!?!?
mods admin do what ya want i give up

Hey bdyman, I am just offering some advice I heard. I ain't pointing a gun at anyone's head so they believe me. I myself, am kind of skeptical, but I will not shoot the idea down because I haven't tried it, or seen the video myself. Also using compressed air in a can, is for someone who doesnt have the propper tools like you do. I know I don't have a torch to use whenever I feel like it. The reason I would try this after some research, is because I have a very low budget. I don't know where you live, but down here, PDR is like 50$ a dent (door dings). What do you think someone without a job will most likely do, research and buy a 5$ can of compressed air, or go and pay 50$ he doesnt have per dent for PDR?

hey bdyman, you heard anything about that simioniz, do it yourself dent puller kit for pulling out small dings

yes our PDR guys uses it, and it works, its to bad your down south our PDR guys is awesome and he is cheap too,

How about breathing in a whole can of compressed air? That will definetly fix the problem.

If you TIP THE FRIGGIN CAN UPSIDE DOWN!!!!!!!!!!! you are in essence have a can of cooling agent. If you are too stupid to realize that you have to tip the can upside down, then PLEASE tell me where you work, so i will NEVER brink my vehicle there. As I said, simple physics explains it. I couldn't give a shit if you had 40 years in bodywork, just because you've never done it before doesn't mean it won't work!!!!!!

And throwing in the "canned air can straghten a frame" stuff, just goes to prove how much of an idiot you are!!!

wow... haven't seen bdyman around in a while... i remember arguing with him becasue i asked a tip on how to paint my own car and he insisted that anyone who doesn't have his 15 year experience or whatever is incapable of doing anything but consuming oxygen. no compressed air won't do anything... but super cooled liquid CO2 will... he must not have watched the vid... the science behind it makes perfect sense to me... mioght not be the cleanest fix but it's better than nothing if you can't afford to pay somebody to do it for you. i do agree with him though that it's not something that will fix things as well as an actual repair. but bdyman... tone it down with the noobs... they get easily offended and haven't been around long enough to know that you are a grumpy guy. :ninja:

you guys can think what you want to i dont need to be a effin rocket scientist to fix a car, dry ice on small quater size dents will work, but how the in the world can you tell me that compressed air is goin to pull a dent out???
so if i take my blow gun tip it upside down right side up shove it up your ass how is it goin to pull a dent out, especially if a dent has a real bad crease around it, HOW?!?!?!?
iam not the dumb ass here i know compressed air will not pull a dent out i know it wont, i showed this thread to my boss and the rest of the guys and everyone at work laughed ther ass`s off at the fact that you kids think that a can of compressed air is going to pull a dent out
dont worry my talent will never touch your effin car prick, only the midwest guys will have there cars touched by a professional
but hey wtf do i know iam just a dumbass, and i dont a phd to fix cars like the rest of you kids do

wow someone woke up on the wrong side of the workshop! damn cant you shut up and accept the fact that it works????? I JUST WENT AND DID IT!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

I believe they are talking about canned air, not an compressed air gun. when inverted the propellant in the can is shot out, instead of the air, which will come out as a supercooling liquid (for the second before it evaporates) it works the same as dry ice.

http://www.wisebread.com/remove-car-...ly-and-cheaply

should be the second one on the page...


this won't be a flawless job, of course. if you want your car to look stock (or better) you'd have to have a shop do it...

Damn Bdyman, you are really taking this out of hand. Nowhere in your last post did I see an argument from your behalf on why the can wouldnt work. Everybody else seems to be showing links to support them, and all I see you do is talk about what a bad idea it is without anything to back what your saying up. If there are videos and links about this, there must be some truth behind it. Shouldnt there?

bdyman if your going to get that angry about it, you probably shouldn't bother looking at the thread. It seems like you don't want anyone to accept anything under "a professional job". Not everyone wants to spend that kind of money. I am happy this method worked for you and if I ever get dents I will def try it. Bdyman I suggest you try it to... why not?

never will i try that, iam too stupid to try it and i dont have a phd in physics so i will stick to my old skool ways to shape metal
i ban my self

wow another one. first off for the question, i'd just go ask around at your local body shop. they will usually tell you lots of good information.

second, yes bdyman (sickfish, whatever u want to be called) you do have lots of knowledge and experience, but you are so into yourself all you ever think is your way is the only one that works. that is not true. are lots of different methods and everyone with a different opinion isn't always in you words "a dumbass". you have been banned for that before, you should be smarter than that. but time and time again you prove that you are not and just cut down other members for no reason, proving that u you are the dumbass. not them.
nope, he's just always like that.

i'm done ranting now:p

were you replying to my question??? if so, i saw the "as seen on TV" simioniz do it yourself PDR kit at wal mart and i was curious if it was worth buying, and i know your the man when it comes to this stuff

not into my self into my trade, iam very very passionate about what i do for a living, have allot of knowledge, and tell people the correct way to fix cars, if someone cant handle the way iam turn the other way, if ya like my in your face advice i will be more then happy to help
ask anyone how often i have helped allot of members on this forum,
from scot all the way to brent
you meet me in person iam the same way, an ahoe but a ahoe that gives good advice

Guys, you may hate his tude but you should heed his warnings and listen to his advice, he is an artist in his trade.
I have personally seen his work and so have many others. He has helped many on here who have screwed up over the years and many from making the mistake in the first place. I have been helped by him.

Call him a grumpy ahoe or whatever, but he will not steer you wrong. The man is B/S free, no facade with him. In person he is not as bad as he says though.

I understand that he gives great advice and is probably a great person and very helpful, but he was wrong in saying that something doesn't work when he has never tried it, that is the only problem anyone has had, and no one can deny that that was the wrong thing to do. How can you say something doesn't work without trying it? Doesn't look good, especially when it DOES work (according to most other people on here, including the one with the problem). I am not trying to be a rooster and have nothing against bdyman, just saying if you don't know for a fact, you probably shouldn't say that stuff. If he doesn't want a mint job and save a couple bucks... why get on his ass about it? It's his car... as long as he's happy more power to him.

i love you too andy, the method i have used is dry ice, thats it iam not sayin no more

Bdyman, how thick is your skull?? The propellant in a can of canned air is just as cold as dry ice. Common fuggin sense tells you that if dry ice works, which you openly admit does, then using the propellant from a can of canned air will work too. If you would rather enjoy stick COMPRESSED air up your ass, then go for it, whatever turns your crank. NO ONE on here was even talking about compressed air, we where all talking about CANNED air, which uses a propellant that when compressed is in a liquid form, but when decompressed is in a gaseous form. (basically like the properties of ANY gas!!!) Friggin grade school teaches you that!!. NOW, when you turn a can of canned air (which isn't really air at all) upside down, you release the LIQUID that suddenly decompresses, cause immense cold to happen. (This is the part where highschool physics comes in!)

If you can't get this through your thick skull, then forget it. Everyone else knows it will work, common sense and physics tells you it will work, too bad your vastly superior knowledge of bodywork can't tell you it will work.

Have a nice day!:dink:

and again i see i have to have a phd or be a rocket sciencetist to fix cars no it nothing like dry ice, different ball game, but go ahead and try it and post pics up so i can get a good laugh

I think all you need is to get by 5th grade, or be able to hold a can. Nowhere near needing a phd, just common sense :)

like i said letssee your can of compressed air pull a dent and when you do post pics and lets see the results so i can laugh and show the guys at work