How To Repair Your Vehicle Dents At Home

Have you spotted dents on your vehicle? Mark is here to help with some dent removal tips. 

(00:00) Looking after our beloved VWs takes quite a lot of effort with the servicing the cleaning, keeping everything up together and then you notice that horrible bodywork dent that really annoys you and all you think of is expensive body shop repairs. Well let me tell you, there's a process called paintless dent repair. It doesn't have to be expensive, as you can see here, this T25 has got a dent in the rear quarter panel. If I move the camera up and down, you can just see it appearing here, it's quite annoying it's quite a soft

(00:30) dent so it should be fairly easy to remove it's about two inches long by about an inch wide I fitted my line board to the side of the vehicle and I should be able to show you much more clearly now where the dent is watch this so as we come up there it is it's appeared just here so this is the dent we're going to remove so the first thing your local dent technician will do will make sure that they can get to the area of the damage and make sure they can get their Tools in at both ends of the damage so here I've managed to get access through our

(01:00) rear quarter panel here so remove the trim and I can get down through and I've checked with my tool I can get in and I can get to the start of the dent and the finish of the dent that means I can move right the way across the damaged area so with my line board set up I can get the tool in position and I can see exactly where the tip of the tool is and actually start working that dent and slide in position. I'm going to start at one end and work my way through, so I'm going to start on this area here and push the dent out

(01:28) across from that way so I'm taking great care not to over push the dent. We need to stretch the metal back into position, so I need to go past its uh flat point and let it relax back if that makes sense so again we don't want to over push it and end up with an outy dent although we can deal with those as well we don't want to make the repair more difficult than it is as you can see we've only got a really tiny little ripple left now so I'm going to work that with a the fine tool still and see if we can get those last little bits out

(01:59) We're back with the line board in the horizontal plane when we first originally looked at the dent as you can see now the dent is gone there's a tiny little bit of imperfection in the paint now, not in the metal work it's actually in the paint so I'd have to flat and polish that off to get that 100 perfect but I think that's like a 98 repair let's paint this stem repair if you've got any of those niggling bumps and dinks that'll really annoying you get them fixed it's not that expensive look up your local PDR technician and

(02:33) get them repaired. I've got a few more to do, so I'll see you next time. Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram and check us out at JustKampers.com. Thanks for watching.