It amazes me when I see what you guys are able to do with these basic tools and an understanding of the metal and the dent. When I first saw the damage I said there is no way you can fix this - it needs a new panel. Just amazing.
@@fishingwithjavi5324 That's what I was implying. They "read" the dent and know where to pull, push, tap and which one to do first. I bought a very rudimentary kit and tried taking a dent out of my kids fender. I got it to look a lot better but the closer I got to the end the more I started screwing it up. Finally took it to a local guy who looked at it and immediately said "who ever did this was starting to stretch the metal". I told him it was me that did it and I knew that I was going to end up making it worse. He worked on it for about 15 or 20 minutes and now you'd have to look at it damn hard and in the right light to realize that it had ever been dented.
Solid repair my friend! The dent remover USA 25 years pushing dance bro and that is definitely for that repair amazing! I don't know what you charge for it but I understand the challenge of it! body shop would have had to hit them at like 1500 to to repair the damage. Thank you for sharing that technique of pushing with your body weight instead of your shoulder and arm I've been using that for years and I'm 57 and I'm a little little broke but using that method is definitely save my shoulders in my elbows! Probably been watching your videos for the last 10 plus years and love them keep up the great work my friend!
That’s not called body work, that’s called replacing parts. Unfortunately most body shops have gone that way now. What this guys is going in the video is called real body work.
Nahiyan Haq this was a scenario where the damage area is huge however the paint is all intact ... if the paint is cracked at all any reputable shop would never “ repair “ this panel. On cars like this, quarter panels are part of the infrastructure integrity of the car, can’t just pop it out put bondo and call it a day!
@@Nahiyanize I could have fixed that quarter panel, just not by pdr. If that was an insurance job, the insurance company would have me replace the panel because for them it is faster and cheaper. The bad thing about that is they would pay for an inferior thinner ill fitiing POS panel to install which takes a ton of extra work to install with it not being right with no extra pay. That makes me have to do free aggravating work. I have learned to refuse to install junk parts. Btw, uninstalling and installing parts is part of bodywork.
Was parked and got sideswiped and other driver took off. My fender got a 6 inch dent in it just behind the bumper, but not nearly as bad as this Corolla. This video helped me calm down and realize it’s repairable. Thanks!
I'm Impressed nice work, you are a dent SAVANT. I had something similar needed to be done and the local PDR wouldn't touch it. Twentyfive years ago working in a Nissan dealer had a 300z hood pulverized from hail storm while on the transporter. This PDR guy shows up and said he could fix it. I didn't believe him, this hood looked like a disaster. He spent four hours ish and if I didn't see it I would not of believed it, PERFECT, could not tell.
Great repair. It’s so nice to hear a humble dent tech! It’s not perfect but I bet you learned a lot in the process. I feel like that’s what matters most. Learning something while making a client happy in the process.
Many thanks most impressed. The other nite some fella tried to attack my daughter in the driveway and scuffed and dented same spot not as bad. Now called our local pointless dent repair company. I live Western Australia that's why not called you. Anyway thanks for giving me faith.
I was very impressed with your work, not only did you have very bad dent with creases to work with, but you made the panel look 99.9 percent better, to excellent!
Hey Myke, u sure did take the correct approach right from the start, u saved a lot of extra work just by knowing how and where to start , for the amount of time spent, GREAT job,
Thats really an amazing bit of work. To think it was totally bent and twisted in and now it looks far better. The owner, if they like can now have a body shop sand and skim out the very minor imperfections without them having to cut out that panel. Yeah it really is fantastic work. Well done. 😉
No it doesn't look brand new for sure. But this is a very complex dent, and I'm surprised you didn't drill a hole in the other side of the panel to be able to work from two sides. This is for sure way above the head for most of the PDR technician.
I had a similar 'PUSH' in my left-passenger-door. I simply took the door off, removed the inside of the door, removed the plastic covering under that, and then carried the door to my living room, put it onto the carpet on the living room floor, took a 12" long length of 2x4, placed it so that the 2x4 was FLAT against the metal, and hit it with a large 'dead-blow' hammer. The wood transmitted the force of the hammer blows over a large area, pushing out the dent without causing too much more additional damage. sure it wasn't anywhere near 'normal' looking, but it was free, the car looked pretty good, and my car only lasted 5 more years before SEVERE RUST from road salt here in the North-West ate up the car too much to safely keep it on the road any longer.
Tough job, great tip about using the body to make force with the rod.... I'm a starter in PDR and my mind every job makes me believe that I can do a hundred percent back the original.... sometimes I felt a frustration to not get there.... I'm working to feel as the owner and not the professional but it's very difficult.... Great result Mike!
Very nice job! Speaking as an auto body and paint tech, any body shop would have replaced that panel. Even if its not 100%, its now an easy repair to make it so. Any time you don't have to cut, weld. and grind, you are making a better repair.
As an auto body tech, I always replace the qtrs when they’re hit like this. Seeing that with patience it can be done, the next one I get I’m going to attempt to push and pull as much as I can then use filler to save the qtr.
Since I first saw this, our shop has purchased a Keco system. While I haven’t tried something this extreme with it, the stuff we (body men not dent guys) can straighten, block and maybe a little glaze, is unbelievable.
I thought these guys were just some joe smoes with a suction cup, this a talent idk if its an artist or craftsman, but I'm seriously impressed and somewhat mesmerized when i watch these.
That takes a lot of patience for sure I've been practicing it's really hard I find a lot of the jobs I get though have either corrosion or something within the dent the paint broken from the crash pop out the dents best you can for sure and go from there I do a lot of painting still LOL I mainly work on Rust projects in Northern Ontario my buddy owns a dealership and ask me about popping dents so I've been practicing keep up the awesome work
That Quarter 200 % change That is actually good repair with out changing the quarter. After that point it is OK to sand maybe a little bit metal finish and 2K prime and paint still less money and time. God knows how much is that new quarter
This is an incredible skill ! i have done some minor door ding glue pulls and to tackle that large panel pull and to come out looking that good i give them a 10 out of 10 even though its not perfect its close enough... L.A Rob
That's incredible but I sure as hell never going to do this. I've been driving around with a large dent on the exact spot of my car and I think its time to take it to the shop. Thanks for the vid!
Although I love the metal working skills you have, one thing consistently missed by the PDR community as a whole, is that the paint is dammaged beyond saving, on something thats been creased this badly. You cant see it with the naked eye, however if you take a DA and start feathering where all the crowns were, you will start to see all the splits show up as you get through the paint. When you do conventional body repair, you see this all the time. So this QTR still needs to be stripped and painted. That said, its really good to see a high level of metal working skills returning. For a long time they were all but lost. Very few knew how to do this, even as recently as 10 years ago.
wow! truly amazing you are a highly talented experienced professional for sure man! nice job but im also curious how the heck can you smash a car up like that without scratching chipping or ruining the paint?
i have a huge dent located on the passenger quarter panel of my 300zx. i plan on welding metal rods and pulling it out with a chain and possibly salvaging it instead of cutting it out and welding a new quarter.
This is better than replacing the part, as he’s maintaining the factory wields, if that panels replaced, it’s never the same strength as in the spot wields.
Body shops are scammers? This guy charges 50 dollars to drop one side of the bumper that's held on buy 4 screws and 2 push ins. At a professional body shop that would be .2 of an hour. Which is no were near 50 dollars
Even at that it would be super easy to skim coat if a guy wanted to paint the 1/4. I think it's really good considering, after all it's a used family car not likely to be going to any shows. Good work!
Very impressive dent removal. What's more impressive is that all those dents don't have any paint scratches. Whatever people hit with those cars must be padded :)
amazing just amazing I thought you might get the dent out close enough to save the panel but still need plastic filler I just bought a glue dent puller now I hope I bought the right one
