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Dent Removal Technique

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Dent Removal Technique

What happens when you use dry ice on a hot car? How to get those dents out easily and without paint loss. See for yourself! What happens when you use dry ice on a hot car? How to get those dents out easily and without paint loss. See for yourself!

Step 1: Car Dent Removal

If we're good to our cars, they'll be good to us. But sometimes repairs can be pretty expensive. Those little dings and dents are annoying. But it doesn't take special skill to remove them yourself.What the body shops don't want you to know. Here is a Paintless car dent removal trick revealed!

Step 2: Dry Ice

We'll start with a small hail dent. All it takes is some dry ice! It runs about a dollar a pound, and can usually be found at your supermarket. Applying it on and around the dent causes the metal to contract.

As the metal contracts, the dent is pulled out. Of course, you'll want to wear a heavy set of gloves to do this. And it works best on a warm day. It's never damaged the paint on any of the cars I've done this to, even ones with Clear Coat.

It seems like magic when the car dent disappears. But is DOES work! This is the same technique used in "paintless dent removal." The difference is, you spend a few dollars instead of hundreds.

Step 3: Dent Size

Not convinced? Let's try one a little bit bigger. You can apply a lot of pressure. And not scratch your car. It is ice after all. It just goes straight to gas instead of liquid. It takes about 3 or 4 minutes on average. But you get the idea. I obviously could have made this video shorter. But I REALLY wanted you to see it for yourself.

Step 4: Bad Dent

How about a reasonably bad dent? How about this one? I think my cat threw a rock or something. It takes a little longer. But as you can see. It works for me, and it will work for you too! Thanks for watching!

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  1. krissy71883

    Wow! Really? NOT.... First of all, Body Shops could care less what people know about PDR because they don't do them, they are subleted to a PDR co such as Ding Doctor. Second, "Even cars with clear coat" WOW! All vehicles are 2-stage meaning Base coat / Clear coat some even tri-stage. I wouldn't recommend rubbing a big hunk of ice on any finish you might as well wash your car with a BRILLO pad! For the record to PDR a ding the size shown your probably looking at $100 and after you done scraping the paint down to bare metal your looking at $500-$700 so, keep up the good work GENIUS!!!

  3. nottrue

    false, paint dent removal is done with metal rods from behind dent

  4. nottrue

    this all untrue, paintless dent removal does not use dry ice as stated, metal rods, some cases rollers, a florescent light is used to gauge the pressure amount to apply from the backside of dent, nice video tricks

  5. mario_clarence

    so does this really work???somebody please tell me...i cannot try it myself. for some reason

  6. caandycanee

    a major dent or more, anything out there that wont cost major bucks

  7. caandycanee

    what r thoughts on a damaged dented car door

  8. highlander38

    Nope. Nothing worked. Dry ice is fun and inexpensive.. but sorry Babblin, this one does not wok buddy.

  9. highlander38

    Well, I don't know what Babblin is doing, but this technique clearly does not work. I spent a number of hours on this.. and even left the ice on the dent for 45 minutes.. very little change. and my dents were just like his. I have not tried it with the blow dryer though I will try that tomorrow..

  10. phisolophe

    Oh my god, not the ice again!....