Hey guys, just last night an idiot ran into my car backing up. I looked at the car in the light noticing a large creace in my door from his bumper hitting my car. Is their anyway to remove the creace without having to go to the body shop. The creace in size is almost the whole door length, it has not taken paint off so from afar the car looks okay, but once you reach the door, you can see the fold in the door. How can i remove the dent, i have heard of hitting the dent out or using suction cups. What is the best way? Thanks.
97 Chevy Cavalier
2.2L 3 spd
Automatic
Body shop... with something like that if you try to "pound" it out, you're just going to end up making it look worse... and if it's creased like you said... PDR won't work (Paintless dent removal).
If you know who did it... I'd call the police and then their insurance company...
yea, let the insurance take car of that. that's what they are there for. good luck man. that sucks.
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if you really wanna try yourself, my only suggestion is to take the door panel off and go from the inside. not sure if that would work since i never removed a door panel before
[quote=ßãggéÐÇåv98 (Ûñqùðtäߣè Øñé)]if you really wanna try yourself, my only suggestion is to take the door panel off and go from the inside. not sure if that would work since i never removed a door panel before
You can do that and make it look a little better but it won't help at all. There will still be a crease and the metal around the crease will then buckle in most likely. What will happen when pushing out on that is that the metall all the way around that crease will buckle and make the door look like more crap because it has been streatched out. There is no way around it. You need a body shop to fix it for you.
ya can`t learn to be a body fender man from readin a post online, take it to a shop, if it was a hit and run your screwed and you will have to either pay out of your pocket or the deductable from you insurance
let a shop fix it
so my experience with allstate they will fix the door state farm will if it is bad enough they will put a door skin on it liberty mutal kinda iffy depends on the field adjuster
farmers will replace the door skin
kinda give you a heads up
can i haz bondo
LMFAO, thats the best way to learn to be a body man/woman.
The more times you do the job the better you are going to get (that's if you aren't a complete tool, and can learn from your mistakes).
With this damage Dragoncrester, you won't remove the damage without removing a good amount of paint also, if the insurance is going to pay for the repair, after you get a check in your hand, go to town and try to repair it, be careful not to damage anything else though.
Stay away from the door jambs, if you damage the shell some body shops won't repair them they only replace them, and that will come out of your pocket.
I used to race circle track, and i did all of my sheet work, do you think I had even half a clue how to stamp, smash, bend, fold, stretch sheet metal before i did that...
Nope, closest I came before that was cutting a few sheets off of a 45000 pound steel coil that were damaged, before we shipped it to the mitubishi stamping plant in illinois.
Remember everyone starts somewhere, and down the road they will learn the correct way to do things... If they do things the correct way after that, is up to them.
