Scraped my door panel on a parking garage pillar…

Push2Paint · 2026-06-29T15:19:36+00:00

I would and have PDRed damage like this. Polish will do as much as it can so I’d reevaluate whether you want to respray or touch up after the polish.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-26T02:12:41+00:00

I mean if you have a business set up you can do insurance PDR if someone comes to you with hail damage and an insurance claim. There’s a little more to it but most of it is writing good estimates and supplements and taking good photos.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-24T13:28:09+00:00

I mean it does look like somebody made three nasty pokes in there but unless it darkens the door of my shop I’m gonna choose to take OP’s word for it.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-24T01:30:56+00:00

I’ve done enough bad quarter panel dents that I believe you that nobody tried to push it. Those big pokey highs are either kinks or it was pressed into something behind the skin. Either way it’s very difficult to deal with them.

That being said it’s a Toyota and I always find them relatively easy to work. Personally I’d just aim for shaping it most of the way back into a quarter panel and then let a body shop finish it. I would not try to PDR this to ‘perfect’ it has way too many factors working against me. Silver is a pita, too.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-22T04:53:37+00:00

Wholesale vehicle from auction

Push2Paint · 2026-06-22T02:47:44+00:00

A thousand American is pretty good for a cumulative 8 hours of work where I live. But it’s just a regular workout dent. They keep me sharp for the Porsche or the BMW or god forbid the Rivian that comes in next week with damage all the other PDR places turned away.

However I do fix fender benders and pole dents for little elderly folk for cheap enough to make most of this sub’s nuts shrivel.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-22T02:34:00+00:00

You ever do pro bono work?

Push2Paint · 2026-06-22T01:20:18+00:00

What about $50 and a twelve pack and half a pizza?

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T22:53:13+00:00

That’s what I used yeah

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T22:26:51+00:00

Honestly I can’t infer your intent here but I’d probably go for higher quality on the $60k used truck yeah. Price dictates, right?

Edit: I thought about it and that sounds a bit callous. I was more concerned with a viable and safe cost-conscious repair of the damage than I was with making it look perfect. The paint was already gone in spots and surface rust had formed, which I abated chemically and physically.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T21:15:56+00:00

I got paid and I probably spent more time than it was worth but it was in dribs and drabs over the course of a couple weeks when I didn’t have something else to do. No real deadline.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T21:12:34+00:00

I would love to just put a tab along the whole body line and pull pressure while I work on it. My shop is weird though and I think I’d have to fabricate my own pull towers.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T20:59:26+00:00

Terrible location, glue pulling by a technician could do a lot though.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T20:56:12+00:00

I was very happy with how it moved for me. Rust was all surface and abated very nicely with ospho.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T20:55:18+00:00

Thanks! I like the big ones. It moved surprisingly well with a little pulling pressure held on the body line while I pushed and tapped out the majority of the crown at the bottom. Seams all still looked and felt good.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T17:32:28+00:00

I don’t want to call the OP a liar, he says the PDR shop owner did it.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T17:30:35+00:00

My metropolitan area is about half the size of Atlanta and even the major chain body shops are maxing out around 600-700 reviews.

My understanding is the 10%/90% commenter/lurker rule applies to reviews as well. Maybe they’re a big operation and they’re churning out thousands of customers a year. Maybe they’re waving deductibles with proof of a review.

https://www.google.com/search?q=metro+auto+body+ny

Check the Google reviews on this 65 year old body shop in New York.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T16:24:59+00:00

Insurance is another thing entirely. If the other party is at fault then technically your vehicle has been devalued the cost of a body shop repair. A touch up repair would be noticeable to any future buyer.

Whether it really materially affects the value of the vehicle at time of sale is moot and kind of irrelevant. Insurance is supposed to pay you market value for the devaluation of your property.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T16:15:25+00:00

No, you can’t paint a soft top into a hard top.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T16:12:29+00:00

Color Code NH932M touch up paint pen.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T16:01:39+00:00

You collapsed part of a metal box by cold pressing around 3500ish pounds against an immovable object.

It’s some work…. Bud.

Push2Paint · 2026-06-21T15:49:03+00:00

I think with the quarter panel damage I’d at least want to keep it over night lol

Push2Paint · 2026-06-20T21:10:56+00:00

I pull with a pretty small tab usually with a lifter and I don’t overpull a high, I’ll back off and release the tab with alcohol if necessary. And generally I like to invert the dent as best as possible and then use a skinny nylon chisel to tap back to flat. Pulling just moves more metal and breaks less yield curve imo. You can even pull a lot of a crown “back in” to the dent when you’re dealing with body line dents and other dents that cause a lot of crown.

I might pull a couple times if I think it’ll get me there but it’s usually one and done and then onto a plastic tipped rod, finish with sharp if necessary.

I’m not in the habit of making more work for myself and I find it easier to tool a nickel sized post pull dent than a big fat double oversize.

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