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Old 12-22-2007, 01:46 AM
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Default How many dents do u have on your car?

I have about 5, all on the right side of my car and all of them about the size of a dime. These were all from b***** who slammed their doors against my car.
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just found one on my hood today...haven't even had it two months
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I got two... one on each door.....maybe I can pass it off as dimples haha... anyways you can get them out.... usually you can get some people that just take dents out....I work at a dealership and the guy that does our dents charges 75 a door
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All those dents are on my 2008 tc. =(. I've had it for about 4 months.
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My car got wacked last saterday. Lucky that it was snowing out cause i matched the tire tracks to the car that hit me. It was my neighbor, she backed her car and dented my bumper. I'm still waiting for her insurance to come out and look at my car.
You can't have anything nice anymore, sux..
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one on my door. there was two but i covered one with rubber bumpers so anyone else that hits my car with their door wont dent it. i dont count the one i covered
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Nada!
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I have one from the dealer. It was there when I bought the car. They couldn't get it out because it's in the curve of the rear panel above the wheel well. They knocked off like 200 bucks from my extended warranty
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Originally Posted by ExpresScion
I have one from the dealer. It was there when I bought the car. They couldn't get it out because it's in the curve of the rear panel above the wheel well. They knocked off like 200 bucks from my extended warranty
did you buy the car new? if it was new i would have haggled until they took off like 500 or more.
if it was used... 200 was good.
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2 in the weirdest spots. One right by the tC logo in the rear and another on the bottom side close to the rear wheel?
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4 dents...
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dry ice and thick gloves.... and lots of pressure on a warm day. that is the fix fellas. good luck and save the 75 bucks for happy hour.
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Originally Posted by simplyred
dry ice and thick gloves.... and lots of pressure on a warm day. that is the fix fellas. good luck and save the 75 bucks for happy hour.
dry ice? to take out dents?
i heard of using a blow dryer and desk air duster (you know, the one in the aerosol can?) and spraying it upside down so the liquid comes out to remove dents but i dont know if it works.
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When a bumper dent comes in the shop I use the hot / cold method but its only worked on polyurethane and polypropylene for me. I didn't thin it would work on metal and I was right. Metal has to be either physically pulled out or bondoed over.
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i backed into some wooden stacked palletes in a parking lot... put a fat basketball sized dent in the hatch, and marred the bumper. sent it to the shop to get fixed, $700 cash did the trick. came back a week later and was as good as new.
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I have 5.
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sigh...too many...but the silver hides it well, my car is a monet, looks perfect from proper distance, but then up close you can find some little paint knicks and such. that is why i hate washing it, i always find a new one to sob over.

thinking about getting it repainted once i am outta college, when hopefully it's hardest days will be behind it.
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i found out today that u cant reply to a post with just 1 leter/number... cool!
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I just did ^^^

oh yea Dakine, jealous?
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