paintless dent repair - is it worth it?

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Old Aug 22, 2001 | 06:20 PM
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paintless dent repair - is it worth it?

Has anyone tried this? Is it very expensive?
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Old Aug 22, 2001 | 06:40 PM
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I've used dent wizard, and they worked miracles on a crease and ding in my driver side doors. Total cost was $150 + tax.

They price each job based on the dent size.

It works as such: they put a protective cover on the window, put the window down, then leverage off the glass to create force pushing out from inside the door.

Although they do well on dents that are pushed in, they don't do well on raised dents (like the kind you get when a tire hits your fender, presses the sheetmetal into the strut tower and leaves a nice crease out on the fender)

Another nice feature is you don't have to pay if they can't get the ding out. Give them a try, it's cheaper than body shop work - that dent in the fender is going to cost $1200 to fix including disassy, bodywork, paint and labor.
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Old Aug 22, 2001 | 07:05 PM
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well worth it
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Old Aug 22, 2001 | 07:20 PM
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I use Paintless dent removal. It comes out to your loaction. It chagres $85 for up to 3 dents per penal. It works great.
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Old Aug 22, 2001 | 07:34 PM
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I had it done at Dent Wizard with my 94 Accord EX.
I was trying to get the car ready to be sold or traded in for the TL.
I had a dent the size of a tennis ball on the back panel between the rear door & gas door. I don't know how it got there but I must have been driving. The alarm would have went off with an impact of that size if the car was sitting still. Dent Wizard charged me about $125 for that & a smaller dent. The dents did not have any paint damage. I was very happy with the work they did.
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Old Aug 22, 2001 | 08:24 PM
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Hell yeah. At the Park Ave Acura meet this guy removed a dent from the front quarter panel, the flat part where it meets the hood. I'm freakin anal about my car and I can't tell where the dent was.
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Old Aug 22, 2001 | 08:32 PM
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Well worth every penny. Done it already on my TL-S and on my old Accord. Its cheap and your factory paint is untouched. Not all dents can be removed this way, especially if the dent has any creases or sharp edges to it. But if yours doesnt paintless dent removal is the way to go.
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Old Aug 23, 2001 | 04:29 AM
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Dent Wizard!!! I had a reverse dent on my hood (long story) and after Dent Wizard did their magic, I cannot find any evidence of any damage on my hood.
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Old Aug 23, 2001 | 09:10 AM
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My Integra got about 10 dings from a hail storm and my insurance gave me about $500 to fix it. Most of the dents were on the hood. Long story short, I never got it done but if insurance will pay for Dent Wizard rather than a new hood then it has to work OK.
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Old Aug 23, 2001 | 01:20 PM
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NSXNEXT, where in NJ is this guy - i could use his help on a ding on my hood.
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Old Aug 23, 2001 | 01:26 PM
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Originally posted by Mythos
NSXNEXT, where in NJ is this guy - i could use his help on a ding on my hood.
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Where are you located? I got one in South Jersey and North Jersey.

South Jersey - Auto Dent in Cherry Hill - did work on my Integra
North Jersey - Talk to Wayne at Park Ave Acura in Maywood. That's who did the work on my car
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