Dent removal trick

[dan88911]

Anyone ever try this?

Remove dents with dry ice.

The extreme cold of dry ice can help pop out dents. Pick some up at your local grocery store. Remember to pick it up with gloves, since dry ice can hurt your skin. Then apply it to the dent repeatedly until it’s gone.

I have a small dent on my front fender. A broom fell in the garage hit the fender and left a small dent. The kind most people would not notice of course, I focus on it every time I look at the car.

[porsche930dude]

id be real skeptical about putting dry ice on such old paint. I have a door ding that id like to fix eventually when i have the door panel off. on the fender it should be easy enough to get at the back of it. id look for a paintless dent removal guy before i put dry ice on it. atlest look up how to do it yourself

[Bob Kontak]

+1 on 930 dude's comment.

Sounds great but I think if it worked it would be all over the board as "the thing to do".

The method must bank on physics. Heat was created when the metal bent. Reverse the process and deep freeze it - sucks it back to where it was. Metal memory.

For $100 and a paintless guy - done.

[boba]

Agree on the paintless dent repair being the best option. I recently had some dents removed by a very good guy. I asked him about the dry ice technique, as I had heard of it but never knew if it worked. He said he had never seen it done and knew of no one doing it in our market area. He further stated he would be concerned about the paint not being to be able to hold up. Original paint would have the best chance to survive. Repaints would be risky due to underlying prep/bondo. The risk would be that the paint would become brittle, contract at a different rate than the underlying metal even with original paint.

[Chuck.H]

++1 on the paintless dent removal, really it's only $100 (I suspect they get less from the dealers so they love your $100, especially if it's cash) and the dent will be completely gone. I got hit with a Camaro door that got swung open in the wind down in Ft Lauderdale... 3 inch dent that was deep into the door, now it's only a (bad) memory.

Find the one guy that does all the dealers, he or she will be a complete expert at reading metal.

Chuck.H
'89 TurboLookTarga, 380k miles

[spb350]

The dry ice trick works great if your car is in bare metal, I never tried it on nice paint I think it could crack it? I have a dent in my SS Targa band I think I'm going to try it on. Here in AZ the metal gets so hot in the summer it might even work with regular ice.

[djantlive]

I tried and it didn't work. Wasted $15 and a couple hrs of time. PDr is only $45-70.

[rnln]

Do you have the contact of who is doing it for $45-$70?

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by spb350

The dry ice trick works great if your car is in bare metal, I never tried it on nice paint I think it could crack it? I have a dent in my SS Targa band I think I'm going to try it on. Here in AZ the metal gets so hot in the summer it might even work with regular ice.

Saw a youtube video where a heat gun was used to heat area then keyboard cleaner was used for the shrink.

As a rebuttal to this comment, I am right now working on a wide very shallow dent on a Chrysler Concorde. I saw on youtube where a guy took a propane torch and went in a circle around the dent - outside to center - and the heat pulled it out.

So I do this and it works. I could watch the metal move. I am screaming "I'm Batman" I was so pumped. 30 seconds later the dent sucked back in with a little pop. So now I am searching on relieving dent stress.

Mind you, this is on naked metal. No way on paint.

There ain't no magic bullet without experience.