Paintless Dent Repair for beginners by a first time a DIY guy. It looks so easy when all the PDR pros do it on youtube, so I wanted to try it out on my car. What did I have to lose? Paintless dent repair is where you adjust the sheet metal on your car to be flat again. If there is a low spot pull it out. If there is a high spot, tap it down. When it’s smooth again, you are done! You don’t have to be an auto body pro to pop out a door ding. Don’t be afraid to try this on your car, unless it’s precious. For me, it’s all about learning a new skill and having a little better car in the end. I’m stoked that I did this pops a dent kit. I got a couple door dings and dents out since filming this. Take your time, you can get great results if you pay attention to what you are doing. This is a great way to repair hail damage too. The kit I got has glue tabs, a hot glue gun, glue sticks, a slide hammer, a rubber hammer, a t-handle puller, a bridge puller, and a dent lifter. I also suggest a heat gun to reuse the glue on the tabs since it just needs to get hot to melt again and is faster than the glue gun.
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You should have used the alcohol spray from the beginning. The tapping should have been a lot lighter
Good try for a first go but that's how you learn. Reach out to the positive comments.
The heat gun, or in your case hair dryer, is used to heat up the panel mostly to keep the paint from cracking. Not to heat up the pull tabs. And that 2 seconds of heat you applied to that tab did literally nothing. Don't heat the tabs. Heat the work area. Help make the metal a little easier to work but mostly it's for the paint.
Jolly Good show! I am about to attempt my first DIY ding/dent repair and this gives me inspiration. Thank you!
I would have used the illuminated card to put lines on the dent. I have not attempted this yet, but plan to. The lines would show you how close you are to eliminating the dent. Also they say heating up the panel to 150 degrees helps tremendously throughout the repair.i think the glue sticks that come in those kits aren't that quality. I would look for an alternative thanks for posting and the link your kit -The best price I've seen on Amazon.
what do you do when you see someone door ding your car?
Nice job 👍🏻
Nice try but still looks like shit. Have it fixed by a pro.
Wow many minute does it take ?
I like it alot , always shit talkers , but that only means your doing something right . I ordered a kit .imma go for it .