Jocko PDX
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Someone put a door ding in my 2023 Yukon Denali. It is not that big smaller than a dime, but it is kind od deep, as if the door that hit it had a point.. Can this be fixed inexpensively?
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perhaps free if your insurance covers PDR
by the way the metal on these new trucks is thinner, get used to it.
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Jocko PDX
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How do they remove them?
Stbentoak
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Well, they don't actually "bang" it out from the back, they use a series of sharp pointed hooks that work the metal out back to flat. They also actually heat it with a butane torch to get the metal Pretty warm so it's easily workable. It does not harm your paint, and it really is the method of choice for dings that haven't hurt the paint.
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Have a picture of it (that also shows where in the door it is)?
I had one fixed in the front fender, very close to where it met the leading edge of the driver's door. The PDR guy (who is known to be amazing around here) wouldn't make any promises to me after only seeing pictures of the ding, but he went ahead and took care of it like it never existed.
I had one fixed in the front fender, very close to where it met the leading edge of the driver's door. The PDR guy (who is known to be amazing around here) wouldn't make any promises to me after only seeing pictures of the ding, but he went ahead and took care of it like it never existed.
Tonyrodz
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Depending on the location and access to the ding, sometimes the PDR guys will have to drill a hole so they can get their tools to reach the ding.
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Sometimes they just use a plunger. Suction cup that thin a$$ metal and pull that thing out!
Or hot melt glue to affix a piece of metal to pull on the sheet metal.
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I saw a tool that welds a rivet looking pin into the ding. Then you use the slide hammer to pop it out. Like in your example though, it leaves some need for bondo.
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