Removing a dent
As some know my Dart was "vandalized" by someone who put a good dent into the side of my car. Problem was it was right over a major crease line in the body panel. To give an example in the picture below you can see the crease line and I've circled where the major dents are. There was also a small dent right on the crease line.
In this picture you can clearly see the large top dent:
I had heard of a method of removing a dent using two items most people have around the house:
Yup a hair dryer and a canned of compressed air, like those you buy to spray the dust out of computers.
All you do is take the hair dryer and WARM up the dent until the body panel is warm to the touch. Then take the compressed air and turn the can upside down. This allows you to spray the liquid CO2 that normally is at the bottom of the can. Spray this liquid CO2 onto the warm body panel until a layer of ice develops and then just let it sit and defrost. Might take a couple applications. It doesn't always work. Personally for me the dent is not easily 1/4 if not more of the size and there is NO dent at all in that crease line.
I'm pretty sure that if I took off the inside panel and did the same trick with someone very lightly pushing out on the inside of the dent, it would be totally gone.
As some know my Dart was "vandalized" by someone who put a good dent into the side of my car. Problem was it was right over a major crease line in the body panel. To give an example in the picture below you can see the crease line and I've circled where the major dents are. There was also a small dent right on the crease line.
In this picture you can clearly see the large top dent:
I had heard of a method of removing a dent using two items most people have around the house:
Yup a hair dryer and a canned of compressed air, like those you buy to spray the dust out of computers.
All you do is take the hair dryer and WARM up the dent until the body panel is warm to the touch. Then take the compressed air and turn the can upside down. This allows you to spray the liquid CO2 that normally is at the bottom of the can. Spray this liquid CO2 onto the warm body panel until a layer of ice develops and then just let it sit and defrost. Might take a couple applications. It doesn't always work. Personally for me the dent is not easily 1/4 if not more of the size and there is NO dent at all in that crease line.
I'm pretty sure that if I took off the inside panel and did the same trick with someone very lightly pushing out on the inside of the dent, it would be totally gone.