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Anyone know the best way to take care of door dings? A girl at my school hit my door with hers since it was really windy today. Left a nice little dent and some red paint on my silver celi. Any tips?

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is it a big dent?

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no its relatively small.. maybe nickel sized

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i ahve dings as well i leave em, i dont bother using the cover up that toyota provides i think it just makes it worse really, dunno maybe someone has some better advice.

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I got tons of dings. Wouldn't want to try fixing it myself and create a bigger mess.


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there should be places that do "painless dent removal" around you, which takes out dents like that niceley for relitavely cheap. my dad does that anytime he gets a ding, can't even tell it happened, paint isnt even damaged in the process. i'm gonna have that done to my celi soon...

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Pops-a-dent [pops-a-dent.com]

only $19.95 as seen on TV grin

or just leave it

Last edited by Joey; Mar 31, 2005 1:13am.

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welcome to the dent club...mine has door dings and hail damage...shit those are the best mods on the car...makes it like a golf ball...baby just flies through the air! rofl thumbsup

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^^ rofl

I think im going to try buffing compound to get the scuff out... but as for the ding I guess it'll just be an eyesore cry

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Here's a suggestion - have the girl at least try and SUCK THE DING OUT...send video!!!

mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh thumbsup


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Once you've got a ding, you're pretty much stuck with it until the area can be repainted. Probably best to wait a couple of years and then get a paint job, I dunno. The trick is to not get the ding in the first place. I'm incredibly picky about where I park my car. If I'm parking at a mall or store, I always insist on parking on the end, and leave lots of space for the car next to me. I'll park far out as necessary, and walk a lot of extra distance. Same applies at work. I'm lucky we have a big parking area at work with lots of space.

Anyway, sorry to hear, I hate dings. thumbsdown

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Originally Posted by Joey
Pops-a-dent [pops-a-dent.com]

only $19.95 as seen on TV grin

or just leave it

Do these as seen on tv crap actually works tho? My aunt purchase that vacuum that supposedly able to suck and hold a bowling ball but when I used it to clean my car, it did not suck jack. Weak!


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Originally Posted by Chelica815
Originally Posted by Joey
Pops-a-dent [pops-a-dent.com]

only $19.95 as seen on TV grin

or just leave it

Do these as seen on tv crap actually works tho? My aunt purchase that vacuum that supposedly able to suck and hold a bowling ball but when I used it to clean my car, it did not suck jack. Weak!

Nope, those don't work at all. I used it back when I had my Grand Am and it didn't even come close to popping any of my dents back. Thing thing is basically hot-glue; do you think hot glue is going to pull hard enough on metal to pop it back out? Not likely. frown

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if you ever have a ding most affortable thing you can do is get a blowdryer and hold it close to the ding and it'll pop right out...

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I managed to buff out all the red that was on there. The local toyota garage has a guy come around every tuesday and thursday that manipulates dents and they said fixing it will be no problem thumbsup

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remove the door trim and pop it yourself thumbsup

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or you can try a toilet plunger rofl

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Ok, so I've managed to go 3 years without a SINGLE ding. And it's not because I don't drive my car. Quite the opposite. 21,000 miles per year. After three years, that changed in a single afternoon. Here I am working in the garage on the car, something falls off the wall and clips the driver's front fender. Left about a two inch "ding" in the fender and a little bit of white paint. I took care of the paint, but the damn ding is still there. I'm thinking of removing the fender liner and taking a small rock hammer and reverse it out. I get my exercise from walking to and from my car. I'm the car that's the furthest from any entrance to a certain place.


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^^ rofl rofl rofl

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man you wanna see a ding lol check this out...

gotta love people who hit ya, then take off...no note no nothing... i have to get a whole new fender because of where it is, and how it bent...
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^^ try poping it urself, may need to sand it down and repaint at most

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post a pic of the dent and I will PM you the method (can't let everyone know the tricks of the traid)

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im a rook and dont know how to post pics

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Originally Posted by maingear
post a pic of the dent and I will PM you the method (can't let everyone know the tricks of the traid)
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