<p>I’m wondering if anyone has experience with “paintless” dent removal. Or the dry ice technique? We have a shallow dent in a Toyota due to someone sitting/jumping on it (teens messing around.) The body shop at the Toyota dealer says they have to put on a new hood panel, costing more than $1,000. I’ve seen late-night commercials where guys come to the house and just pop the dent out with a device. Anyone got experience with hood dents?</p>
<p>Not with hood dents, specifically, but with door dents. We had the “dent sucker” guys do the job (that’s what * they * called their device), and it worked perfectly.</p>
<p>I had a door ding fixed with the dent massage technique; it worked magnificently. I have no idea about a hood dent though.</p>
<p>Were there any negative aspects of those techniques? Leave scratches? I’m just trying to gather info on options before taking it in to the body shop for their estimate.</p>
<p>I’ve had great results using the “traveling dent people”. Just a couple weeks ago had some large dents taken out of two side panels on truck. Body shop said it couldn’t be done and would be 2K to repair. Had the dents done for 200 and they look very satisfactory—one is slightly visible in right light–but we are talking a 10 year old truck here.</p>
<p>I just had a very nasty dent removed from the door of my car. It right on the outward crease on my door, and it was quite noticable. We used a compnany called Dent Wizard, which you can find on the Internet. I just checked their site and they have some examples of ding fixes, but not the one you describe. They do fix hail damage, so I would think yours is fixable. Our ding cost $200 to fix (thank you person who slammed their door into mine, even though I parked in the very last parking place with tons of spaces in between, and then drove off - sorry for the vent). My car is newish, w/o any other marks, and you totally cannot tell that there had been a dent. They did a fantastic job.</p>
<p>Thanks. I’ll look that one up. This car is fairly new, a 2007, and I guess the aluminum or whatever they use nowadays is not as strong as the steel they used to use. When it happened, I wasn’t that upset — boys will be boys — but I thought it would be fairly cheap to pop/suction that dent back to normal and was shocked by the brand-new-hood estimate at the dealer.</p>
<p>If you can do without the vehicle for 1-2 weeks, your local community & technical college can repair it for a fraction of the dealership’s price. I backed into daughter’s car one night her senior year, forgetting that although she was gone on spring break, her vehicle wasn’t. Estimates for repair were $1200. My college’s auto body department fixed it for $150 later that year when she started school and couldn’t take her car.</p>
<p>Great suggestion, but we do need it fixed faster than one or two weeks. I found a Dent Wizard location in a Toyota dealership (a different one from where I got the first quote) and will try there on Monday. I really think the hood can be fixed, dent repaired and scratches touched up, without replacing the entire hood at an exorbitant price.</p>
<p>My brother got great results using a gadget he ordered off the internet called Pop-a-Dent. It only cost about $25. There is a website with a demonstration video.</p>
<p>Thanks, packmom. I’ll check that out too. Could be a useful thing to have on hand.</p>
<p>A simple sink plunger might to the job (at least you should try). It worked perfectly on our car.</p>
<p>You might consider my technique, which is to ignore it until it simply blends in with the overall decrepitude of the care.</p>
<p>Lol, Hunt. That is our strategy with one of the family cars, the 2000 Buick that S2 can temporarily call his own. Got some weird, above the gas tank dent on the side from who-knows-where and we have actively ignored it. No big deal considering the other dings and scratches. But the newer car…the fixable dent has got to go.</p>