Some of you may recall my complaint about some JERK hitting my door a few months ago. Well we were busy and it never crossed my mind at the right moment until yesterday when we were taking care of odds and ends at our new house. I got my husband to bring home a few tools to straighten out the bane of my new car's existence. The dent was in the rear driver's side door. The door was quite easy to take apart, he had everything off in less than 5 minutes. There is a plastic liner in there to protect the electrical parts, secured by sticky stuff that stayed sticky even when he pulled the plastic away to get inside the doorspace. The hard part was actually straightening the dent. The dent was just barely above the side-impact brace which made for a very tight working space, but he was able to manage. As it turns out, the doors are made of ultra high strength steel and bending that sucker back was a real task. It ended up taking a dull edged butterknife and a whole lot of pushing on the inside of the door, but it does look very good now. Not optically perfect, which I never expected anyway, but much better than the glaring dent that was there. Now my problem is with the bit of paint the other guy took off my door. But it does look much better anyway and I'll be happy with that!
galaxee, For dents, I used dent-king/ding-king with great success w/o having to take the doors off... http://www.autobarn.net/dinkindenrep.html
Jeff- no mouldings, and I doubt they would have helped in this case. It was one of those curved back doors that wouldn't have hit the moulding first. ceric- thanks for the link, but this was a creased dent and no dent-puller can get those out just right. i will have to look into that for future use though...
