I recently got a minor dent and I saw that there were those suction cup gadgets as well as those kind of vise looking ones.

My dent is close to the 'grease' that my friend is very hard to fix.

I am willing to give it a try but I still got skeptical getting those gadgets. What your opinions on these?

Personally I’m a little leery of trying this myself. I have used this company with great success and the prices were very reasonable. They might have a franchise near you and they can come to your home or place of work…

https://colorsonparade.com/

I had mixed results. The bigger dent like someone pushed their butt against the side panel popped out perfect. Really small dents like door dings or at a panel crease sometimes came out partially or not at all.

Saw yesterday my daughter's car has a door ding dent and going to see if I can suction pop it out.

A guy I knew once pulled a dent out of a side panel of his car with a toilet plunger.

Check Youtube, alot of stuff on there for you doing it yourself and companies showcasing their talent.

Save your money and look for a paintless dent repair (PDR) company in your area. Those guys are magicians. I've watched guys massage out hail dents before my eyes like it was never there. Quite cool to watch, actually.

The overwhelming majority of the time, those gadgets don't work and are a waste of money. I've known a few PDR guys and they've all said, if there were a cheaper/faster way to do it, they'd already be doing (and it didn't involve any of the kits, plungers, or dry ice )

yeah, I guess I rather let the pros do it. I was skeptical of doing it myself.

thanks for the inputs!

Good choice… Those paintless dent guys are amazing.

I've got a good paintless dent guy and he does a great job. Even got the door dings during a hail claim repair.

And he got the hail dings that were visible, not everything the adjuster found with his special lights, and gave me a nice discount relative to the settlement check.

Killa Dent Removal in Indy - ask for Sid.

My daughter whacked my wife's Infiniti with a softball a few years back. The PDR quotes were around $350-$400. I about choked. Each one I asked how long it would take said about 45 minutes. I was flabbergasted. I have buddies with 30 years of experience practicing law, and they do not bill $400 for 45 minutes.

My relative heard the story and said he would try. He had ordered a dent repair kit at some point prior and had taken multiple dents out of his own car. It was the type were you apply glue, stick on a little device, pull against the dent, remove device, remove glue. Repeat as needed.

And all be darned if it didn't take us about 45 minutes and if we didn't get it to 95% perfect. I can still tell where the dent was, cause I know to look for it. But if you had to find it, not knowing where it was, you would be very hard pressed.

I've been dinged twice in the last six months. Probably at Krogers.
Pretty good size dent in quarter panel but no paint damage. A buddy said
wrap a bunch of hot glue sticks together, melt the ends and stick it in the middle
of the dent, let it harden and yank it out. Haven't tried it yet, it's an old car.

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I have buddies with 30 years of experience practicing law, and they do not bill $400 for 45 minutes.

Yeah, but can they get the dent out of your Infiniti....

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Originally posted by holdem:
I have buddies with 30 years of experience practicing law, and they do not bill $400 for 45 minutes.

Long story I won't go into here, but I once billed Homeland Security's hired Accounts Payable folks $2,000.00 for 1 hour's work.

They paid it too.

Try a toilet plunger, dip it in water so it grips right off. If it doesn’t work, check out the
Dent repair pros. Check your dealers body shop for recommendations. Good luck.

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Originally posted by Snake207:
Save your money and look for a paintless dent repair (PDR) company in your area.

^^^This.

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Those guys are magicians. I've watched guys massage out hail dents before my eyes like it was never there. Quite cool to watch, actually.

'If' you find a good one. Make sure to do due diligence and make sure you know what you're getting.

I guess for the fun of it I will give it try on one of those 20 bucks suction cups but no more than that. I am sure a pro will do it in the end.