Can this dent be removed?

[fly2cast]

Looking at buying a used car for my daughter. Saw this one that had a large dent in the door. Is this kind of dent something a person could pull or push out at home?

 

[LOV2HNT]

You could pull some of that out and bondo the hell out of it but your best bet would be to get a new door skin.

 

[PrairieGhost]

The bottom part should come out nicely. The top part has such a sharp angle to the bottom of the dent on the left that it will leave a line. If you have an air brush and can blend that small line that you will see after can taken out with a small amount of grinding, or paint removed and blended with body filler, then painted. The big discount they should give you would make it worth working on yourself.

I made a large round faced mallet out of lead (10 pounds ) and did this years ago with a 1979 Mazda GLC. Took off the inside panel, removed the glass, and beat it out from the inside. I put the handle for the mallet on the back end not the side like a hammer. There is perhaps a name for that, but I don't have a clue what it is.

 

[measure-it]

Leave it there, they call that character!

 

[Captain Ahab]

I would check salvage yards for a scrap door in good shape. Might even luck out with the right color. Picked one up back in college for an Olds Aurora that had a deer hit. Strasburg, ND is where I got that one.

 

[Buckmaster81]

that dent wont pull out nice. it will definitely need some lovin

 

[Auggie]

Rammount suction cups are your friend. I've receive a few dozen cases of beer over the years by pulling out dents. The process isn't always perfect, but has saved friends lots of money over the years.

 

[NDSportsman]

Make sure there isn't any other damage inside the door like the opener, window and lock mechanism. The dent might be the least of your problems.

 

[LBrandt]

That could be the smallest dent the car gets.

 

[WormWiggler]

lady driver?? other panels will match by Christmas....

Just Kidding...

Women are perfect drivers, perfect humans, just plain perfect.....

No No No not plain...

lord help me

 

[BrokenBackJack]

Leave it there and tell people you doored a DAPL protester that was on the road! :;:rockit

 

[tikkalover]

Shoot a little starting fluid inside the door and drop a match down beside the window. :;:muahaha;:;popcorn

 

[LBrandt]

You will have an out-ie instead of an in-ie.:;:rockit