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Dent repair advice
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Re: Dent repair advice -
10-28-2009
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Precisely. A grommeted 4ish mm hole (which he did put a bit of rust proofy stuff on) |
Give it a few years and it'll be a nice blister.
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;469265']Adrian wrote:- Conor conor (AT) gmx (DOT) co.uk gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: -- the only tell-tale that he'd been near the car was a little rubber grommet in the D post / rear 1/4 where he had to drill a hole to get his dent removal gubbin in to an area that was otherwise inaccessible.-- - There should've been no sign at all that he'd been there if it was repaired properly. I'd certainly be very ****ing ****ed off at a grommet in the D pillar.- -- The only thing the bloke did that could almost be called a bodge was to give the car a full polish with colour magic once he'd finished.-- - Well a grommet filling a potential rot hole isn't something you'd come out of a proper bodyshop with.- If the grommet was required, then it's because there's some kind of double-skinned area with no straightforward access. I'd suggest that any bodyshop would find it difficult to get behind there to gain access without either drilling holes or major surgery. If paint was required, then the usual solution would probably be a dent-puller attached via either a hole drilled into the skin or something welded temporarily onto it. Either's going to require a skim of filler to make the surface good before paint - and either's going to leave the cavity protection breached, unless wax is later injected. Via something like... a hole plugged with a grommet...- Precisely. A grommeted 4ish mm hole (which he did put a bit of rust proofy stuff on) to get to a double skinned area is no worse than the holes rustproofing companies used to drill to get their spray nozzles in with. Not obvious either as invisible with the door shut and in a position which doesn't tend to even get dirty. Are you telling me you'd rather spend £700 odd than £120 getting your car fixed to avoid a grommet? If so, I suspect psychiatric help maybe needed ;-) -- Pete M - OMF#9 '62 Rover P4 100 '61 Rover P5 3 litre '78 Escort 1300 Sport '99 Audi A6 V6 Quattro Avant "It's an Alfa, it will go wrong, it will **** you off, why should your Alfa experience be different from everyone else's. Now get back out there and swear at it before something else breaks." |
expensive repair. I'd be surprised if there weren't change out of £150.
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'Pete M[_4_ Wrote: Are you telling me you'd rather spend £700 odd than £120 getting your car fixed to avoid a grommet? If so, I suspect psychiatric help maybe needed ;-) hi...I think you should take it to a proper bodyshop. Its not an expensive repair. I'd be surprised if there weren't change out of £150. |
been. Hard to tell.
Anyway, the car I'm talking about (the one I had completely sorted for
£120) had dents on pretty much every panel which the paintless dent
bloke sorted. I'm in the motor trade and quotes from the bodyshops I
normally use weren't cheap as the car in question has pearlescent paint.
In the region of £400 just to sort the dents on two of the doors and
repaint them, as that would have left another five or six panels to sort
it was going to get scarily expensive.
However, if you know a bodyshop that'll repair and completely repaint a
pearly painted Renault Espace to 'as new' standard for under £150
*PLEASE* give me their number, I have two Rovers an Audi and an Escort
that could do with some paintwork and I'll be more than happy to pay
£150 each to get them painted ;-)
As it is, I think I did rather well.
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Pete M - OMF#9
'62 Rover P4 100
'61 Rover P5 3 litre
'78 Escort 1300 Sport
'99 Audi A6 V6 Quattro Avant
"It's an Alfa, it will go wrong, it will piss you off, why should your
Alfa experience be different from everyone else's.
Now get back out there and swear at it before something else breaks."
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you can repair very small dents with just a soft hammer.if you aim for the center of the dent, it will reduce the chance of protrusions sticking outward from the hammer. |
David.
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