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The son of one of my hunting partners got a swinging deal on a car with hail damage. It was a very low mileage car with lots of almost invisible dents. I suggested that he look into this.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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That's called Mexican Wedding Tux Blue around here.
Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.
Stupid always finds a way.
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A good 5 years ago or longer ago my son had some hail dent damage on one of their vehicles and had them fixed by one of those kind of places that specialize in minor dent removal. He drives it as his work car now and you still can't tell where the dents were.
I've heard that dry ice can be used to pull small, shallow dents out sometimes, too.
I have to wonder though if a dent in a steel, aluminum or plastic body panel caused it to stretch very much how or if they make it shrink back to original thickness..
Wonder if they can pull out dents in fiberglass, too?.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Do not hold your breath, the "magic" does not last very long IME... This is the second time I went to the place. The first time a walnut fell from a tree while I was driving down the road and put a slight ding in my car. I expected them to be able to fix that one. It wasn't that bad. It's never come back. These were a bit worse. I didn't expect them to be able to do as good of a job. But they did. Could be due to differences in the weather. I hear it gets pretty cold in Alaska.
We may know the time Ben Carson lied, but does anyone know the time Hillary Clinton told the truth?
Immersing oneself in progressive lieberalism is no different than bathing in the sewage of Hell.
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My late stepson was doing that for the Ford dealership here in Tucson. Seems he also got farmed out to many of the other dealerships as well. He told me that the newer Ford trucks with the aluminum bodies were very hard to do and in most cases it never turned out to be a good job. Had something to do with metal stretch or memory. I forget exactly how he explained it. I do remember how busy he was though. Seemed like he averaged 10 to 12 hour workdays. He did customer's vehicles and the trade ins brought in when someone bought a new vehicle.
Paul B.
Our forefathers did not politely protest the British.They did not vote them out of office, nor did they impeach the king,march on the capitol or ask permission for their rights. ----------------They just shot them.
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Nah,..it's the Batmobile,...a black sedan.
I'm thinking about going retro on it with some cherry bomb glass packs and some BF Goodrich T/A radials on Cragar S/S mags. Pimp that biotch bro. 21's with some low profiles and spinners. LEDs in the wheel wells an scheidt. Get with the times. Geno
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In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
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My late stepson was doing that for the Ford dealership here in Tucson. Seems he also got farmed out to many of the other dealerships as well. He told me that the newer Ford trucks with the aluminum bodies were very hard to do and in most cases it never turned out to be a good job. Had something to do with metal stretch or memory. I forget exactly how he explained it. I do remember how busy he was though. Seemed like he averaged 10 to 12 hour workdays. He did customer's vehicles and the trade ins brought in when someone bought a new vehicle.
Paul B. The difference in metals might make a difference... but now I gotta slap a magnet on it and see if it is aluminum... 
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I had my new truck for a year when we had a pretty bad hailstorm here, and I took my Frontier to the local body shop. After it was all said and done, my little pickup still looks like new. I got hit pretty hard on that, but not as hard as the insurance company did. There was/is a traveling bunch of bodyworkers who came in and did all that work, as the body shop was already buried under their normal workload.
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The good ones are pretty amazing. I have had it done to a couple of vehicles. Never had them come back in any way
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They are going to start getting wealthy in my neighborhood. Pretty good hailstorm came through last night. It got my camper, my enclosed snowmobile trailer, my powerstroke and my Yukon XL. The wifes car made it into the garage before the hail was big enough to do damage. I have to check the house over and make sure everything is ok. It has steel siding and malarky shingles so it should be in pretty good shape.
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I had a pretty good size dent on an older Avalon rear panel which I thought they could never fix. It came out perfect.
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