Fixing a Car Dent for $15!

today we're working on what might be the unluckiest Camry in America this year is 1999 Toyota Camry and we picked this up from the auction a few years ago and it's been a daily and backup car for Boyan and when we picked it up from the auction it had a damaged rear bumper somebody a bunted sat in the corner and over the past I don't know maybe three years it's been hit in the same spot another three times so we replaced the bumper multiple times and just last week we put the newest went on and a couple of days ago somebody bumped into him in the parking lot and as you can see here they put quite a hefty dent and unfortunately they ran off so we don't know who did it so we're just going to try to attempt a few low-cost repairs and see if we can pull this huge dent out and see if we can do it on a low budget so we've picked up a few tools to try this out the internet favorite seems to be the blow dryer and compressed air trick so we're going to try that first you also picked up a couple of low-cost tools from Harbor Freight including a suction dent puller that was about four bucks and a crossbar dent repair kit that was about 11 bucks with the coupon so we'll try all of these out and see what we can do so what we're going to do most of these directions say is to heat up the area where the dent is for a couple of minutes then take some compressed air and basically turn it upside down to put ultra cool air at it and it should pop so let's give that a try we've gotten the deepest part of the dent pretty hot so we're going to go ahead and spray it with some compressed air upside down and see what happens [Music] unfortunately that did not really do anything which we kind of anticipated just because this is pretty thick metal because it's kind of structural because this is a unibody car so we're going to go ahead and warm it up again but this time we're going to move to the harbor frieght four dollar plunger and see if we can put it pull it out while it's heated up since we sprayed the area it's gotten a little damp so we're going to go ahead and wipe it down before we proceed to the next step and go ahead and try to heat it up again and use the plunger all right so boy I was going to keep getting it from inside the truck and I'm going to go ahead and do the first plunge here okay that made a little bit of movement but not a whole lot let's try again so we've been able to pull it out a bit but because we can't get a good feel down here where this crack is what we're going to do is heat it from the outside and actually push the deepest part out from the inside and try to get it straight alright so we've gotten it a little push from the inside and we're going to give it a couple more pushes then we'll go back to the plunger for some finish work and this time around I'm actually going to get in the car and just try to give it a little push with my foot all right let's see what we've accomplished and where we need to put some more pressure so we've gotten it out decently well there's still a few low spots so we're going to try to push some more of that out and get it straight especially here and a few more places to get the lines back right so we're going to do a little more heating and a little more pulling and we may use the bridge puller turn up for some finish work to get it perfect so we got the glue gun the cane in the harbor Freight kit and we let it warm up took about three or four minutes to warm up so we're going to go ahead and take some of the bridge full of pieces out here and start to get this going to take just a bit of acetone and just kind of brush it all around this area where we're going to put our bridge puller and go ahead and close that off and then it says basically just to wipe the area too quickly and now we're going to look kind of for the center of our debt and attach the puller brush too so we got the puller and it's got a few angled pieces just make sure it's clean because whatever it pushes in will push right into your paint and now we've got the pulling piece here and we just got it set on a chisel here so doesn't get glue all over the nice epoxy floor so now I'm going to lay it on thick right in the middle of the vent put the glue gun down and then go ahead and stick this in and hold it for just a bit and now we're going to let it dry for a couple of minutes just so it gets nice nice good fit on to the ident and then we're going to go ahead and start knotting our bridge pulley here okay so we're going to go ahead and slide our bridge on and give it a nice angle there so it's got some good grip on the surface and start screwing it on all right and now we're just going to thread it in slowly and watch it pull up the dead and as I'm threading this end I can see the panel moving out and I can feel a decent amount of resistance starting to build up as it's pulling it out and now we've gotten kind of to the end and it's actually done quite a decent job of pulling it up so this lower area here is now fairly even so we're going to move over to the next step beside it and repeat the same procedure so I made a mistake on the last one it kind of started pulling too soon so on this one actually let it dry for about four minutes just so it could get a little bit of a better grip so we're not repeating this process over and over so I'm going to go ahead and tighten it down and try to pull this one out and it actually did a quite a decently good job of pulling on it now I just need to do probably one more pull here and this bottom line will be restored [Music] [Applause] all right so now we're going to do some finishing work on this top area here we have a very small low spot here and a bit of a high spot beside it and I believe that they should even each other out once we start pulling on that one so we've used all of the tools we've picked up and as you can see we've made considerable progress so the panel now is about at about 95% we still probably have how to say maybe 15 or even 20 pulls to get all the small dents out and I'm sure we won't get it a hundred percent but it'll be pretty close for the cost involved and about two hours we spent so far it's actually worked pretty well the plunger kind of helped us out in the beginning and we were able to get maybe one or two pulls where it actually did something and then the area was - waiting for it to pick up but for three dollars and 49 cents it's what worth it the hairdryer and compressed air trick there's pretty much nothing it pops a little bit but the dent was too big or maybe our blow dryer wasn't hot enough or something like that which we didn't really do anything so it was kind of worthless the star of our repair is this set here which we picked up for about 11 bucks with the 20% off Harbor Freight coupon and we've been using that for the past hour and it's actually done a really good job the only thing to watch out for is the glue gun make sure that you put it on something that won't burn and watch your hands and fingers and when you're putting it on it's not really regulated so the 10 richer kind of goes up and down it stays liquid always for you to put it on but sometimes it will get really liquid and start dripping off other than that you have two scientists so you want to make it useful on removing the glue is a bit of a pain but it can be done and the tool they give you for punching down kind of the high spots in the surface is actually useful we've used it to restore this body line here mostly because of a crease that was created from the hip and that's basically what we're going to do down here if you've had a panel retain it you have to be careful that you don't clean your paint off look we had some pulled out here other than that the glue is perfectly safe where we were going to call this about a 90% success and keep working on this doing some more pulls to get it fully evened out probably touch up the stain a little bit and I think they're all good processes except for the compressed air and I think it should be a job well done for 11 and 4 for about $15 total so please remember to Like and subscribe and check out our other video

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Length: 12min 13sec (733 seconds)

Published: Wed May 03 2017