Well, I was coming out of a store a few days ago and i notice a huge dent on my quarter panel, it seems to be creased. Well I removed the rear bumper in hopes I would prove myself wrong, about the thing being welded tight to the rest of the car. What should I do use bond then sand it down and repaint it?

 

i have a guy here in Waco who does jobs on the side at the local Dodge dealership. he's about to repair my dented passenger side quarter panel for $100. That includes sanding, repairing, painting and matching.

 

I want to see that, $100 seems too good to be true.

 

my thoughts exactly

 

welcome to Texas

 

are things alot cheaper in texas?

 

yeah labor is a lot cheaper down here than it is up north.

 

I have successfully 'massaged' out a dent in the quarter panel on my car. You can see it a little if the light is just right but otherwise you'd never notice. What I did was take off the interior panel, and remove the speaker and found a tool to work the dent from behind. I just basically smoothed it out. Might want to try that before you go spending money on repainting.

 

Hey dmoor88, Do you think i can get his number to by chance. I have the same problem and need to fixed and insurance wont cover it.

Thanks,
Brian.

 

BTW lastlaf what kind of tool did you use?

 

You're probably going to laugh when I tell you what I used for a tool. I tried a couple different things that I found in the basement, but what I found worked best was an old pair of metal scissors. I held onto the blade part and used the side of the handle part on the inside of the dent. The metal is really thin so you can watch the outside as you put pressure on the inside. It's really not as hard as you might think to smooth the dent out as long as you can get to it from the inside.

 

Did you just put pressure on it or did you try to hit it on the other side and start from the outside and work in? Also was your dent like mine or was it smaller?

 

He's just changed his cell phone number and I don't have it yet. His name is Luis and he works at the Dodge dealership on Valley Mills Dr in Waco.

 

Try using a baseball

 

97BBlackZ:
My dent was a small vertical crease about 2 inches long maybe. I didn't hit it from the back but rather used the scissors and put alot of pressure on the dent from the back. Enough pressure that I could see where the scissors were from the outside when I moved them. Then I kept the pressure on and moved the scissors back and forth and up and down until eventually I decided that it was as smooth as I could get it. The only thing I tried not to do was to push too hard that it would dent the opposite way; but that didn't seem to be a big deal anyway. I also tried a castor wheel thing to try to roll the dent out but I found it was too big to do anything.