Couple times a month we have clients with damage on car rental cars.
That is really stressful for most of them because
1- they need to fix it fast
2- they don't want to spend money on car which is not their
3- they don't want to get overcharge from car rental.
If u had accident on rental car you can always add insurance, which is coast is usually extra $18-35 which in most cases double the price for car rental so most people don't do it.
Same like this client of ours. And even when you have insurance on your car rental. It is hassle.
Paintless dent removal is excellent solution for dents, door dings and creases. It saves lot of time compare to body work and money.
SOS DENT in Santa Monica offers just that in addition if we can we offer paintless dent removal as a mobile service in W LOS ANGELES and SM.
This particular repair save our client paying about 5 extra days for rental car. Because if he take it to only to body shop. This repair will take about 5-6 days and cost could be anything from $775 - up.
See how this repair came up.
I hope that none will have to go through a hassle with their car rental. But if s..t happens you can at least know there is a solution.
All the best
SOS DENT team.
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Showing posts with label paintelss dent removal. Show all posts
May 2, 2010
April 7, 2010
2009 Porsche 911, 997 turbo - quarter panel access
Hi guys,
I had a chance to work yesterday on 09 997 turbo. It was just small ding and I thought this will be easy as always. We service Beverly Hills Porsche dealership so we work on turbos all the time. But this was first time I did quarter panel. Some panels are aluminum (hood, doors) but this was metal.
Ding with reflection
So I lift the car up and knowing that Porsche already has factory opening in quarter panel I thought I just go through there. Well I find out that instead of inner metal structure there is something else.
Inside of quorter panel there are 2 plastic peaces with screws. I thought this will be easy I just remove these and i will have big opening. So that is what I did.
On this picture you can see how big opening is. What you can not see that even if you take this off completely you can not access skin on the quarter panel because there is vent house. LOL I was thinking. " I am not gonna be out here as fast as I thought ;-)" And also "Great I learn something new today"
So I took a vent out. On Boxster you know if you take vent out you can easily pull robber out and you have wide access. Well turbo is not a Boxster. And performance, price and design of that car is the proof. When vent was out I saw that house is really tight and it was hard to try to slide tool between skin and housing.
Trick is to loose those two screws which give you about 1/4 inch room and I could slide there tool easily
I did use the smallest tool from this picture. All those tools are from http://www.dentcraft.com/ and I try them all for this access point. I didn't need to use bigger then the smallest one. But I did wanted to know if dent is further from vent if I will be able to access it. And yes, I could slide there green tool as well
This is the after picture. Ding was easy to remove.
What you want to pay attention when you removing vent is how to start. There is no screw like on Boxster. the Porsche 911 model 997 turbo has only clips. Easiest way was to use window wedge and dissaseble from front. If I do it from back I will brake clips because those were reverse clips. First you pop out from front and then slide it back. So those back clips don't brake.
You also loose the bottom. I point it out where are clips which pop out. The back side has reverse clips.
On this picture you can see front straight clips
On this picture you can see (not so well ;-) those reverse clips. You have to slide it back. All this is common sense. Nothing difficult but I thought it will be nice to share.
Have a good day everybody and I hope all your dents will be nice and smooth at the end.
cheers David
I had a chance to work yesterday on 09 997 turbo. It was just small ding and I thought this will be easy as always. We service Beverly Hills Porsche dealership so we work on turbos all the time. But this was first time I did quarter panel. Some panels are aluminum (hood, doors) but this was metal.
Ding with reflection
So I lift the car up and knowing that Porsche already has factory opening in quarter panel I thought I just go through there. Well I find out that instead of inner metal structure there is something else.
Inside of quorter panel there are 2 plastic peaces with screws. I thought this will be easy I just remove these and i will have big opening. So that is what I did.
On this picture you can see how big opening is. What you can not see that even if you take this off completely you can not access skin on the quarter panel because there is vent house. LOL I was thinking. " I am not gonna be out here as fast as I thought ;-)" And also "Great I learn something new today"
So I took a vent out. On Boxster you know if you take vent out you can easily pull robber out and you have wide access. Well turbo is not a Boxster. And performance, price and design of that car is the proof. When vent was out I saw that house is really tight and it was hard to try to slide tool between skin and housing.
Trick is to loose those two screws which give you about 1/4 inch room and I could slide there tool easily
I did use the smallest tool from this picture. All those tools are from http://www.dentcraft.com/ and I try them all for this access point. I didn't need to use bigger then the smallest one. But I did wanted to know if dent is further from vent if I will be able to access it. And yes, I could slide there green tool as well
This is the after picture. Ding was easy to remove.
What you want to pay attention when you removing vent is how to start. There is no screw like on Boxster. the Porsche 911 model 997 turbo has only clips. Easiest way was to use window wedge and dissaseble from front. If I do it from back I will brake clips because those were reverse clips. First you pop out from front and then slide it back. So those back clips don't brake.
You also loose the bottom. I point it out where are clips which pop out. The back side has reverse clips.
On this picture you can see front straight clips
On this picture you can see (not so well ;-) those reverse clips. You have to slide it back. All this is common sense. Nothing difficult but I thought it will be nice to share.
Have a good day everybody and I hope all your dents will be nice and smooth at the end.
cheers David
March 31, 2010
Motorcycle dent - Triumph
One of the easier repair on gas tanks. This dent was small about 2 inches. Not stretch just great scenario. However I had trouble to access it so i took one of the older tools and bend it as need it.
So what I try to say is that is useful to have in your arsenal one bendable tool for unexpected situations :-).
- Thank you all for reading our blog. We hope you can benefit from some of these information.
So what I try to say is that is useful to have in your arsenal one bendable tool for unexpected situations :-).
- Thank you all for reading our blog. We hope you can benefit from some of these information.
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