Our paintless dent repair guy didn't want to try removing the dents in the door on my Z because he said the paint probably wouldn't hold up to the bending back out. I think it is the original paint and no telling how old the dents are. The dents are quite deep for door dings and it has 3 of them within about a 10" area on the drivers door. I was hoping to get them popped back out and don't really want to mess with having a body shop do it as I can't imagine anyone being able to match the look of the 34 year old paint. Anyone familiar with removing dents with old paint? Will it likely split or do that wonderful spiderweb cracking?

-Trevor

The guy that does our dent repair ( the dent wizard) on the lot I work for pulled one out of my Z and it has original paint. I not sure what process he uses but our guy uses bars and goes in from behind and pushes them out. Now there is another process where they use glue and suction cup thing that process sucks and might pull your paint off. Check out www.dentwizard.com

our paint doesn't have flex additive in it, correct? that could be a reason...

Removing dents can be a real art. What one guy can do easily, another cannot.

Look at the dent, if there is a distinctive "line" where it begins, then it might have creased the metal such that it will not just pop out.

The technique used by the individual mentioned is where slap spoons are applied from the back and press out the dent while pushing the outside towards the spoon.

There is also another technique which uses a hair dryer and liquid CO2 (aerosol can) to heat and shrink the dent and allow the metal to "pop" back into place. There was a video which showed the technique and it looked very promising. I don't have any further information on that though, maybe someone else does have that info.

FWIW

E

The dents are very round. Our guy uses the spoons from behind the dent method. He's removed some dents in the past that I didn't think could be done. One on our other car was right on the character line and a good solid crease line going against it. I can only spot where that was by the slight dent in the paint there now.

I guess since we go to him because he's good I should just trust his opinion on it but I'm not looking forward to having a rough drivers door from now until the car finally needs painted or I break the 'gotta have a Z' curse.