It amazes me when I see what you guys are able to do with these basic tools and an understanding of the metal and the dent. When I first saw the damage I said there is no way you can fix this - it needs a new panel. Just amazing.
@@fishingwithjavi5324 That's what I was implying. They "read" the dent and know where to pull, push, tap and which one to do first. I bought a very rudimentary kit and tried taking a dent out of my kids fender. I got it to look a lot better but the closer I got to the end the more I started screwing it up. Finally took it to a local guy who looked at it and immediately said "who ever did this was starting to stretch the metal". I told him it was me that did it and I knew that I was going to end up making it worse. He worked on it for about 15 or 20 minutes and now you'd have to look at it damn hard and in the right light to realize that it had ever been dented.
Solid repair my friend! The dent remover USA 25 years pushing dance bro and that is definitely for that repair amazing! I don't know what you charge for it but I understand the challenge of it! body shop would have had to hit them at like 1500 to to repair the damage. Thank you for sharing that technique of pushing with your body weight instead of your shoulder and arm I've been using that for years and I'm 57 and I'm a little little broke but using that method is definitely save my shoulders in my elbows! Probably been watching your videos for the last 10 plus years and love them keep up the great work my friend!
That’s not called body work, that’s called replacing parts. Unfortunately most body shops have gone that way now. What this guys is going in the video is called real body work.
Nahiyan Haq this was a scenario where the damage area is huge however the paint is all intact ... if the paint is cracked at all any reputable shop would never “ repair “ this panel. On cars like this, quarter panels are part of the infrastructure integrity of the car, can’t just pop it out put bondo and call it a day!
@@Nahiyanize I could have fixed that quarter panel, just not by pdr. If that was an insurance job, the insurance company would have me replace the panel because for them it is faster and cheaper. The bad thing about that is they would pay for an inferior thinner ill fitiing POS panel to install which takes a ton of extra work to install with it not being right with no extra pay. That makes me have to do free aggravating work. I have learned to refuse to install junk parts. Btw, uninstalling and installing parts is part of bodywork.
Was parked and got sideswiped and other driver took off. My fender got a 6 inch dent in it just behind the bumper, but not nearly as bad as this Corolla. This video helped me calm down and realize it’s repairable. Thanks!
Great repair. It’s so nice to hear a humble dent tech! It’s not perfect but I bet you learned a lot in the process. I feel like that’s what matters most. Learning something while making a client happy in the process.
I'm Impressed nice work, you are a dent SAVANT. I had something similar needed to be done and the local PDR wouldn't touch it. Twentyfive years ago working in a Nissan dealer had a 300z hood pulverized from hail storm while on the transporter. This PDR guy shows up and said he could fix it. I didn't believe him, this hood looked like a disaster. He spent four hours ish and if I didn't see it I would not of believed it, PERFECT, could not tell.
Many thanks most impressed. The other nite some fella tried to attack my daughter in the driveway and scuffed and dented same spot not as bad. Now called our local pointless dent repair company. I live Western Australia that's why not called you. Anyway thanks for giving me faith.
Thats really an amazing bit of work. To think it was totally bent and twisted in and now it looks far better. The owner, if they like can now have a body shop sand and skim out the very minor imperfections without them having to cut out that panel. Yeah it really is fantastic work. Well done. 😉
No it doesn't look brand new for sure. But this is a very complex dent, and I'm surprised you didn't drill a hole in the other side of the panel to be able to work from two sides. This is for sure way above the head for most of the PDR technician.
I was very impressed with your work, not only did you have very bad dent with creases to work with, but you made the panel look 99.9 percent better, to excellent!
I thought these guys were just some joe smoes with a suction cup, this a talent idk if its an artist or craftsman, but I'm seriously impressed and somewhat mesmerized when i watch these.
Tough job, great tip about using the body to make force with the rod.... I'm a starter in PDR and my mind every job makes me believe that I can do a hundred percent back the original.... sometimes I felt a frustration to not get there.... I'm working to feel as the owner and not the professional but it's very difficult.... Great result Mike!
Hey Myke, u sure did take the correct approach right from the start, u saved a lot of extra work just by knowing how and where to start , for the amount of time spent, GREAT job,
I had a similar 'PUSH' in my left-passenger-door. I simply took the door off, removed the inside of the door, removed the plastic covering under that, and then carried the door to my living room, put it onto the carpet on the living room floor, took a 12" long length of 2x4, placed it so that the 2x4 was FLAT against the metal, and hit it with a large 'dead-blow' hammer. The wood transmitted the force of the hammer blows over a large area, pushing out the dent without causing too much more additional damage. sure it wasn't anywhere near 'normal' looking, but it was free, the car looked pretty good, and my car only lasted 5 more years before SEVERE RUST from road salt here in the North-West ate up the car too much to safely keep it on the road any longer.
Very nice job! Speaking as an auto body and paint tech, any body shop would have replaced that panel. Even if its not 100%, its now an easy repair to make it so. Any time you don't have to cut, weld. and grind, you are making a better repair.
Since I first saw this, our shop has purchased a Keco system. While I haven’t tried something this extreme with it, the stuff we (body men not dent guys) can straighten, block and maybe a little glaze, is unbelievable.
As an auto body tech, I always replace the qtrs when they’re hit like this. Seeing that with patience it can be done, the next one I get I’m going to attempt to push and pull as much as I can then use filler to save the qtr.
That takes a lot of patience for sure I've been practicing it's really hard I find a lot of the jobs I get though have either corrosion or something within the dent the paint broken from the crash pop out the dents best you can for sure and go from there I do a lot of painting still LOL I mainly work on Rust projects in Northern Ontario my buddy owns a dealership and ask me about popping dents so I've been practicing keep up the awesome work
This is an incredible skill ! i have done some minor door ding glue pulls and to tackle that large panel pull and to come out looking that good i give them a 10 out of 10 even though its not perfect its close enough... L.A Rob
That's incredible but I sure as hell never going to do this. I've been driving around with a large dent on the exact spot of my car and I think its time to take it to the shop. Thanks for the vid!
Although I love the metal working skills you have, one thing consistently missed by the PDR community as a whole, is that the paint is dammaged beyond saving, on something thats been creased this badly. You cant see it with the naked eye, however if you take a DA and start feathering where all the crowns were, you will start to see all the splits show up as you get through the paint. When you do conventional body repair, you see this all the time. So this QTR still needs to be stripped and painted. That said, its really good to see a high level of metal working skills returning. For a long time they were all but lost. Very few knew how to do this, even as recently as 10 years ago.
That Quarter 200 % change That is actually good repair with out changing the quarter. After that point it is OK to sand maybe a little bit metal finish and 2K prime and paint still less money and time. God knows how much is that new quarter
wow! truly amazing you are a highly talented experienced professional for sure man! nice job but im also curious how the heck can you smash a car up like that without scratching chipping or ruining the paint?
i have a huge dent located on the passenger quarter panel of my 300zx. i plan on welding metal rods and pulling it out with a chain and possibly salvaging it instead of cutting it out and welding a new quarter.
Even at that it would be super easy to skim coat if a guy wanted to paint the 1/4. I think it's really good considering, after all it's a used family car not likely to be going to any shows. Good work!
Very impressive dent removal. What's more impressive is that all those dents don't have any paint scratches. Whatever people hit with those cars must be padded :)
PDR guys, where do I get this puller? This type of repair is non existent in my part of the world... body filler, car about 2kg heavier after the "repair" ...
Its entirely your business and none of mine. However, I am trying to get my son interested in this type of work. I was a dealership part, service manager for many years and used to have the paintless dent guy come to our lot. That was a long time ago. What would this job pay today? Thanks for a great, motivational video.
Bro don’t downplay your work. You did an incredible job. At least a 60 percent improvement. Take this thumbs up 👍🏾
Thank you.
It amazes me when I see what you guys are able to do with these basic tools and an understanding of the metal and the dent. When I first saw the damage I said there is no way you can fix this - it needs a new panel. Just amazing.
those tools might look basic but it takes alot of finesse to understand how to use those tools properly
@@fishingwithjavi5324 That's what I was implying. They "read" the dent and know where to pull, push, tap and which one to do first. I bought a very rudimentary kit and tried taking a dent out of my kids fender. I got it to look a lot better but the closer I got to the end the more I started screwing it up. Finally took it to a local guy who looked at it and immediately said "who ever did this was starting to stretch the metal". I told him it was me that did it and I knew that I was going to end up making it worse. He worked on it for about 15 or 20 minutes and now you'd have to look at it damn hard and in the right light to realize that it had ever been dented.
Solid repair my friend! The dent remover USA 25 years pushing dance bro and that is definitely for that repair amazing! I don't know what you charge for it but I understand the challenge of it! body shop would have had to hit them at like 1500 to to repair the damage. Thank you for sharing that technique of pushing with your body weight instead of your shoulder and arm I've been using that for years and I'm 57 and I'm a little little broke but using that method is definitely save my shoulders in my elbows! Probably been watching your videos for the last 10 plus years and love them keep up the great work my friend!
Thank you Michael. Really appreciate the positive input. 👍
I'm a body and paint tech, and I would never been able to do that. I would've replaced the panel and painted it.
Awesome job! I need to learn this.
Lmao same thing I was thinking “ time to get the sawzall and drill out
I'll bet there's good money to be made if you do learn it.
That’s not called body work, that’s called replacing parts. Unfortunately most body shops have gone that way now. What this guys is going in the video is called real body work.
Nahiyan Haq this was a scenario where the damage area is huge however the paint is all intact ... if the paint is cracked at all any reputable shop would never “ repair “ this panel. On cars like this, quarter panels are part of the infrastructure integrity of the car, can’t just pop it out put bondo and call it a day!
@@Nahiyanize
I could have fixed that quarter panel, just not by pdr. If that was an insurance job, the insurance company would have me replace the panel because for them it is faster and cheaper. The bad thing about that is they would pay for an inferior thinner ill fitiing POS panel to install which takes a ton of extra work to install with it not being right with no extra pay. That makes me have to do free aggravating work. I have learned to refuse to install junk parts.
Btw, uninstalling and installing parts is part of bodywork.
Dude... straight up.. your talents are ridiculous! Thanks for all your instruction. God Bless you.
Was parked and got sideswiped and other driver took off. My fender got a 6 inch dent in it just behind the bumper, but not nearly as bad as this Corolla. This video helped me calm down and realize it’s repairable. Thanks!
Great repair. It’s so nice to hear a humble dent tech! It’s not perfect but I bet you learned a lot in the process. I feel like that’s what matters most. Learning something while making a client happy in the process.
I'm Impressed nice work, you are a dent SAVANT. I had something similar needed to be done and the local PDR wouldn't touch it. Twentyfive years ago working in a Nissan dealer had a 300z hood pulverized from hail storm while on the transporter. This PDR guy shows up and said he could fix it. I didn't believe him, this hood looked like a disaster. He spent four hours ish and if I didn't see it I would not of believed it, PERFECT, could not tell.
How much was the cost?
Minor imperfections?? That is a masterclass repair!! Most would have written that panel off , fair play for taking the job on! 👌👌👌
Many thanks most impressed. The other nite some fella tried to attack my daughter in the driveway and scuffed and dented same spot not as bad. Now called our local pointless dent repair company.
I live Western Australia that's why not called you. Anyway thanks for giving me faith.
Hope all is well with your daughter. Many thanks Chuck. 👍
As a customer I would be super stoked, maybe not 100% but high 90's👍👍👍
I’m a traditional body tech and I would love to be able to do this stuff to save time with nails and stud guns. Great job!
What amazes me more is how a damage that big has no scratches on the paint, what hit it a giant pillow? Was pulled out nicely .
Someone falling into the car butt first
@@retrox684 Butt or belly 😊
me and a buddy were just talking about this how do all these cars get no paint loss but are completely fucked up
Deer 🦌
Hey man, it's perfect for the previous condition.
Most important to know when to stop.
Great job
As a body man it’s incredible what you did. The way you work the metal is insane. I’d love to be half as good as you.
10% tools.... 90% skills....looks great!!👍🏼
Real talk....this guy is top of the food chain. Excellent work. The light tells the true story. It is way too good for the car lot.
Really nice job considering the before situation and the final result. I'm thinking about study to become a PDR profissional.
Mike you did my Merc S550 8 yrs ago turn out like nothing happen no scratches I salute you Bro your the master of them all Thank you Master
Awesome 👏 thank you 🙏
“Ok guys it’s not perfect by any means”
Meanwhile the car looks brand new lol
Exactly.. “Looks”. 😉
Jerry Lawrence looks better but all that orange peel that was created needs to be sanded and buffed.
Thats really an amazing bit of work. To think it was totally bent and twisted in and now it looks far better. The owner, if they like can now have a body shop sand and skim out the very minor imperfections without them having to cut out that panel. Yeah it really is fantastic work. Well done. 😉
No it doesn't look brand new for sure. But this is a very complex dent, and I'm surprised you didn't drill a hole in the other side of the panel to be able to work from two sides. This is for sure way above the head for most of the PDR technician.
@@denttime
True.. Bodyshop guys "feel" 👍
Your eye is obviously better trained than mine; that looked great to me.
I was very impressed with your work, not only did you have very bad dent with creases to work with, but you made the panel look 99.9 percent better, to excellent!
I thought these guys were just some joe smoes with a suction cup, this a talent idk if its an artist or craftsman, but I'm seriously impressed and somewhat mesmerized when i watch these.
Tough job, great tip about using the body to make force with the rod.... I'm a starter in PDR and my mind every job makes me believe that I can do a hundred percent back the original.... sometimes I felt a frustration to not get there.... I'm working to feel as the owner and not the professional but it's very difficult....
Great result Mike!
Thank you. And by the way, your feeling is positive. That’s the right emotion to a successful journey in PDR. Keep staying a perfectionist. 👊
Fabulous preview Myke! Can't wait to watch the full version. It is amazing what you did with that mess.
Thank you Lee. A definite battle.
Hey Myke, u sure did take the correct approach right from the start, u saved a lot of extra work just by knowing how and where to start , for the amount of time spent, GREAT job,
Appreciate William. 👍
Such a tough critic of your own work, perfect wasn't required to save this car! Great job!
Great Art!
I had a similar 'PUSH' in my left-passenger-door. I simply took the door off, removed the inside of the door, removed the plastic covering under that, and then carried the door to my living room, put it onto the carpet on the living room floor, took a 12" long length of 2x4, placed it so that the 2x4 was FLAT against the metal, and hit it with a large 'dead-blow' hammer. The wood transmitted the force of the hammer blows over a large area, pushing out the dent without causing too much more additional damage. sure it wasn't anywhere near 'normal' looking, but it was free, the car looked pretty good, and my car only lasted 5 more years before SEVERE RUST from road salt here in the North-West ate up the car too much to safely keep it on the road any longer.
Very nice job! Speaking as an auto body and paint tech, any body shop would have replaced that panel. Even if its not 100%, its now an easy repair to make it so. Any time you don't have to cut, weld. and grind, you are making a better repair.
Since I first saw this, our shop has purchased a Keco system. While I haven’t tried something this extreme with it, the stuff we (body men not dent guys) can straighten, block and maybe a little glaze, is unbelievable.
Must admit it turned out pretty awesome for it's severity. Great job!
Thank you.
As an auto body tech, I always replace the qtrs when they’re hit like this. Seeing that with patience it can be done, the next one I get I’m going to attempt to push and pull as much as I can then use filler to save the qtr.
That there is what you call skill! I'm impressed!
At least you didn’t leave a woodpecker inside like most PDR guys. Good job.
Amazing work!! Have a dent on my truck cab and watching this makes me have hope it’ll pop out. Looks great to me
Awesome work, now I understood what is painless repair. I shall do your practice...
That takes a lot of patience for sure I've been practicing it's really hard I find a lot of the jobs I get though have either corrosion or something within the dent the paint broken from the crash pop out the dents best you can for sure and go from there I do a lot of painting still LOL I mainly work on Rust projects in Northern Ontario my buddy owns a dealership and ask me about popping dents so I've been practicing keep up the awesome work
There’s good money in this business. PDR, POLISH
Great job that rear wing was fooked it would of taken me best part of a day to repair with filler just to get in primer stage. amazing
Need more guys like you. I know its a tough one, but my car has a dent half the size and nobody wants to touch it... no thanks ill do it myself
This is an incredible skill ! i have done some minor door ding glue pulls and to tackle that large panel pull and to come out looking that good i give them a 10 out of 10 even though its not perfect its close enough... L.A Rob
Amazing talent. If there is any imperfections, it is not obvious.
Great job we try to watch we are automotive student in texas but great channel good luck
Don't worry. Not bad. Your doing very well. Keep it up
Don't care what you say.... looks perfect to me!!!!
Appreciate it. 😉 👍
Hi Myke that's what I would term as commercially acceptable great job.
👊👍
That's incredible but I sure as hell never going to do this. I've been driving around with a large dent on the exact spot of my car and I think its time to take it to the shop. Thanks for the vid!
100% improvement in my opinion. Seriously before & After. I would be a very satisfied client
Да конечно коряво всё)))
WOW!! I wish you were in my part of Tennessee, Fantastic work, You are a real artist.
Cool job, scientific, kinesiological approach.
I think you did great with the repair!
Love pdr
I applaud your skill sir. That is absolutely amazing work.
Appreciate it 😉
Well done, very good result and no paint repair required, amazing really!!
always amazed at the results you guys get. Great job!
Uncle Myke, another Steezy repair, fantastic m8
Haha thanks Cam! Hope all is well!
Great video ....you are a champ for the great advice on using leverage to avoid injury.
Looks good and I'm sure you'r customer was very happy. From Quality Dent Repair AZ
Just awesome! Thanks for the video, and education. I have never seen these techniques before. Great job!
Good job on that dent Mike. It's hard to glass it if you cant work both ways. I'm sure the dealer was very happy.
Although I love the metal working skills you have, one thing consistently missed by the PDR community as a whole, is that the paint is dammaged beyond saving, on something thats been creased this badly. You cant see it with the naked eye, however if you take a DA and start feathering where all the crowns were, you will start to see all the splits show up as you get through the paint. When you do conventional body repair, you see this all the time.
So this QTR still needs to be stripped and painted.
That said, its really good to see a high level of metal working skills returning. For a long time they were all but lost. Very few knew how to do this, even as recently as 10 years ago.
wow, thats a great repair job
very well done Sir, I'm sure the owner would have been very happy with your great work! cheers NZ
Amazing job was done!!
From one PDR brother to another...Dammit man!
That Quarter 200 % change
That is actually good repair with out changing the quarter.
After that point it is OK to sand maybe a little bit metal finish and 2K prime and paint still less money and time.
God knows how much is that new quarter
That is close to perfection for me
wow! truly amazing you are a highly talented experienced professional for sure man! nice job but im also curious how the heck can you smash a car up like that without scratching chipping or ruining the paint?
Human ass, someone pushed someone against the car, or a ball hit it
David Aleksic man that must have been a heavy hottie! LOL
@@kevinbryant6459 Hahah ikr! :'D
i have a huge dent located on the passenger quarter panel of my 300zx. i plan on welding metal rods and pulling it out with a chain and possibly salvaging it instead of cutting it out and welding a new quarter.
Use perpendicular pulls with glue. Much easier today. No painting.
I would say how bad crinkled that panel was I'd say it came out perfect amazing repair
Wow! That was a mess, what an amazing skill to get that looking so good. 👍🏻
Damn this guy is good. Real good!
The old school of Less is More. In PDR this is especially true.
So much time and patience man idk if I can do that I better get paid good 😜🤠
Great job, dude !!! Very nice job !
Amazing work!
You did a good job impressive. Much respect !
Difficult and beautiful work !!!
Thats some strong ass paint
Great info and video. Is this process good with trucks being built with aluminum, like the newer Ford trucks?
Yes we can fix aluminum it is a bit more of a challenge but indeed still repairable
Great job 👏Patients and Consistent
Car
*Looks perfect*
Some one who takes pride in their work
-NOT PERFECT-
Sen bir profesyonelsin dostum bravo
Awesome that why I like learn pdr
That's a great job, thanks my friend! 👍
Thanks a ton that was a great video and no paint required.
Even at that it would be super easy to skim coat if a guy wanted to paint the 1/4. I think it's really good considering, after all it's a used family car not likely to be going to any shows. Good work!
Very impressive dent removal. What's more impressive is that all those dents don't have any paint scratches. Whatever people hit with those cars must be padded :)
I´m from argentina and i do these job but not that serious. it's a great job
Look better than any body work I've seen
great video......i have just watched video regarding the same thing ...but this guy replaced the quarter panel....WHY...
Ассаломуалайкум! Всё отлично волшебные руки мастера. Молодцы ребята. Я тоже очень хочу научиться и где можно купить инструмент.
Great job! At my job, i would've cut the old part out and weld a new piece on it.
pretty sweet work
Hi i do bodywork for like 30 years i have to say that looks real good id love to learn to fix dents like that.
Una obra maestra, eso esta en un nivel superior.
Great work, thanks
PDR guys, where do I get this puller? This type of repair is non existent in my part of the world... body filler, car about 2kg heavier after the "repair" ...
Its entirely your business and none of mine. However, I am trying to get my son interested in this type of work. I was a dealership part, service manager for many years and used to have the paintless dent guy come to our lot. That was a long time ago. What would this job pay today? Thanks for a great, motivational video.