Paintless dent removal.

[Geoff W]

Hi all.
Had a good experiance with a local bodyshop on Saturday, Saw a local advert for a one off promotion to remove dents for £45.00. They did a fantastic job on the two very small dings i had, but also found and corrected another six which i had never even seen! All sorted in about 30 mins. I certainly would recommend this system as it really is undetectable when they have finished.
Regards Geoff.

 

[television]

Hi all.
Had a good experiance with a local bodyshop on Saturday, Saw a local advert for a one off promotion to remove dents for £45.00. They did a fantastic job on the two very small dings i had, but also found and corrected another six which i had never even seen! All sorted in about 30 mins. I certainly would recommend this system as it really is undetectable when they have finished.
Regards Geoff.

Yes it is a very good system, it was invented in Sweden.

Malcolm

 

[Andy Wr]

Now I am intrigued, how is it carried out?

 

[Geoff W]

Basically they insert metal "tools" behind the damaged area and manipulate the tools to push the metal back into shape, they have many different shaped tools, with different bends and angles on them, they also use suction mirrors to see the reflection from different angles as they work on a dent.
The best bit for me was they can insert the long handled tools without removing trims etc, they did the dent in the door by inserting the tool down through the lower window seal, and a small one on a wing without removing the arch liner, even better the paintwork is totally undamaged, and the repairs are totally undetectable, nice to get good service for once!
Regards Geoff.

 

[IAN MAC]

Seen these advertised before but never heard anybody so pleased with the result.

 

[bigasotonuk]

Hi
How can any one person have invented this it sounds like the guy just did a proper sheet metel apprenticeship.
Maserati and Aston and other hand built car manufacturers have been doing this for years dressing imperfections out of the metal of new painted cars even mass produced cars have sheet metel workers as part of the QA process at the end of the production line.
Friend of mine repairs lorries mainly, but does cars as well and some of the damage he can repair without paint is fantastic. All his tools, dollies etc. were made by hand for each job if he got a dent and did,nt have the right shaped dolly he would make one.
This is a skill (as well as others) that this country is losing because of the successive goverments demeaning the tradesmen and the apprenticeship system, and the tradesmen we have got ca,nt afford to stay with their trade, and have to look elsewhere for better paid jobs away from their trade
sry i,m ranting now.
Any comments?

 

[Geoff W]

I totally agree with you Andy, I work as a joiner with a restoration team, working mainly on churches, Its criminal to see brilliant stone masons packing up because they can get better pay doing crappy jobs which involve next to no skill at all, these guys have spent a lifetime learning the craft and this government just don't care that such fantastic skills are heading down the pan.
Crazy thing is, when the skill is on its arse, and there's no one left, they will invest boat loads of cash to "train" wasters to do the work.

Great Britain? Ha Ha!

Ranting over, sorry. Regards Geoff.

 

[bigasotonuk]

hi geoff,
Its not just this goverment to blame but successive ones ever since the iron lady (maggie). and now the goverment and "british" companies are bringing in eastern european tradesmen and are exploiting them and keeping the british tradesmen wages low (not racist honest give them the same pay and conditions as a british tradesmen and i,d shut up).
I,m gonna shut up i,m ranting again!!lol

 

[television]

Perhaps i used the wrong word saying invented. About 6-7 years ago the process was featured in my Swedish car magazine, where the guy who thought it up made all of the small shapped dollies. the idea and dollies have been launched world wide now. The main secret of removing any dent is to work around the outside towards the center. if you hit it in the center,it will never come out. Modern thin paints help in this process.

Malcolm

 

[Geoff W]

Well whatever we all think, I take my hat off to the guy who sorted my dents out, If all sectors gave out service like this we would all live in a better stress free state! I know i would, co's service like this is very rare!
Regards Geoff.

 

[jon_harley]

This is a skill (as well as others) that this country is losing because of the successive goverments demeaning the tradesmen and the apprenticeship system

I don't know what you mean by governments "demeaning" the apprenticeship system, but from what I hear in Coventry (a big centre of car production until recently), it's nothing to do with governments. Car companies used to take on apprentices at a low wage, train them up, and then go on paying them as a low a wage as they could get away with. Of course the fully trained tradesemen felt they were worth a lot more after training, so they started to change jobs more often, to work their way up the pay scale. Engineering firms didn't like the idea of training people at great expense and then losing them, so they axed the apprenticeship programmes and started to just hire people who had been trained somewhere else. Of course that worked for a little while, until the majority of companies did the same thing - and then the supply of skilled craftsmen started to dry up.

It's really just a side-effect of the workforce being a lot more mobile now. Once a talented craftsman could rely on a job for life, so had no need to move; now it's normal to change jobs and move around the country. If governments had any role in this, it's probably the creation of 3M unemployed we had in the 80s, which probably did the most to end the job-for-life culture in which companies and employees had loyalty towards each other.

 

[jberks]

much as I'd like to blame Blair, it isn't him, it's 'globalisation'. Now large firms run everything, every skilled job is now demeaned. 10 Years ago, my job was well regarded and well paid, but wages have been falling year on year. A collegue tells me he's 40% down in real terms since 1999 and given that my earnings are 20% down, allowing for tax and inflation, I guess I'm the same.
HR departments (who run everything these days) believe that as their job which is pretty easy really, can be taught on a course, so can everyone elses. You don't need much experience or talent to be an HR person, but an engineer is all about experience and talent.
With that and offshoring, from a job to an entire factory, its what we laughingly call progress.

Anyway, for what it's worth, I had mine done a few months ago and very happy with the results. As it says on the tin, you can't see where the dent was.