How to Repair Car Dents?
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When repairing car dents, you can use the hot water pouring method. Here is an introduction to the pros and cons of repairing car dents: 1. Pros: Significantly reduces construction time and saves a lot of expenses. No damage to the car paint, keeping it in its original factory condition, and the paint color will not change after repair. Car dent repair is a purely manual physical operation, green and pollution-free. In contrast, sheet metal work and painting produce waste, causing environmental pollution. It can repair aluminum car bodies, saving owners a lot of money. 2. Cons: Only metal parts with minor dents can be repaired. Plastic parts on the car body, edges of doors, areas with too thick paint putty, and severely deformed parts of the car body cannot be repaired.
That time my car door got dented by hail, I tried DIY repair. Bought a hot melt glue pull kit online for sixty bucks. First heated the dented area with a heat gun until too hot to touch, then melted the special adhesive stick onto the puller base and pressed it firmly to the center of the dent. Waited three minutes for the glue to set, then slowly pulled outward with a slide hammer. The hardest part was controlling the force—too hard might warp the metal, too soft wouldn't work. My coin-sized dent took five attempts to flatten, finally wiped off glue residue with alcohol. Spent two hours saving five hundred in labor costs, but it only works for small dents on single-layer steel panels—hard to operate where door beams are inside.
