FL Junkie

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back in feb a big tree limb fell on my hood. it made 2 long oval shaped crease dents. it was just like somebody hit it with a baseball bat. how can you get these out? i tried a toilet plunger, that didnt work. i was thinking of trying out the dry ice method but i heard this doenst work on certain dents.
the dents are right above a support beam on the lower part of the hood, so i cant get to them to pop them out.

FL Junkie

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anybody? the dents are not that deep btw.

couldnt i just fill the dent with some bondo, sand it and paint it? i plan on painting the hood again anyway.

crimson_bird

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post pics of damage

Lotus289

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Bondo should never be used to fill dents, unless very small. I think the rule of thumb is nothing more than 1/8" deep, but even then that's too much IMO.

If I were you I'd use those little weld on pins and a slide hammer to pull the dent out and get it as close as possible with that. Then lightly hammer it to shape if need be, then use some bondo to fill in and smooth out the small imperfections.

SparkyJJO

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Use it as an excuse to get a better hood?

That's sorta what I did with mine. Got banged up (prior damage + my own fault this past winter) so I decided to replace it with something nicer. It'll be all done later this summer

fasteddie94

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Try a PDR guy. They can do some amazing stuff now. They use glue on tabs instead of the stud welders for a situation like this.

black_sheep454

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You can use filler up to 1/4 inch thick, or thicker but not recommended. I would try a pdr guy first though, they can do some good work.

BCKNBLK

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yah with crease dents,, the metal gets stretched too much to just pop back. Repairing it properly will most likely cost a repaint, so just get a new hood,,, sometimes the repair work on the hood will cost close to a new hood and you still need to repaint both sooo...

01formulals1

You want to most likely grind the paint off and put studs on it and pull the dent and work the dent until you like the way it look then put a layer of bondo then sand and repaint , pdr is more for hail dents not huge dents, you going to have to repaint the hood no way around that.

1badSS

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+1 And the ones around here are only like 50-100$ depending on dent(s) size.

1CAMWNDR

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Get the "Ding King" from Billy Mays .

fasteddie94

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I'm telling ya don't underestimate a GOOD PDR guy. They come into the shop all the time, if they get cheeper, I may be out of a job.

And with streatched metal putting a stud gun on it isn't the best idea. Heat is only going to make it worse unless you are heat shrinking. This doesn't sound like one of those situations though.