Probably wrong forum, but question on pulling out a dent.

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Hello all. My friend got into a little accident the other day and has a dent on his passenger rear quater panel (see pic). Anyways, he wants to pull out the dent as much as he can and do as much work to it as He can before going to the body shop for them to finish it up and make it look perfect. What can he do/use?



if this is the wrong forum, please send me a link to where I can get some help for this. Thank you.



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I would advise against trying to do any of the work. It is a perfect excuse for the bodyshop to get out of providing a warranty on the work they perform. Insurance should cover the damage and either way your friend is still going to have to pay the deductible.
 
Yeah I would only try to improve the condition of that damage if you are NOT planning to have it fixed. You probably wouldn't be able to do anything that would lower the cost of the repairs. If he has insurance, then the insurance company is going to pay the amount - deductible anyway, so why bother?



He could do one thing to improve the appearance...WASH IT!
 
I would also advise against your friend doing the work. Your friend's insurance should cover this so that will take care of the costs. Since your friend has no experience in body work the chances are he will just end up doing more bad than good.
 
Have him get an estimate and get it in before it starts to rust. It looks like you are in some wintery weather, and the salt will wreak havoc on bare metal.
 
Even though you live in Anchorage, and even though it's probably about 25 degrees below zero, that's still no excuse for not washing the car! :) j/k



If the body shop quote is too much (or your deductible is too high), you could always have a paintless dent removal person look at it. A friend of mine had a similar indentation (lower body panel, pretty large, etc.) and had his pdr person just 'make it look better' for $75, instead of paying the $250 deductible on his insurance. Wasn't a perfect fix of course, but it did save him $175 he didn't have.
 
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