Hail damage
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Hail damage
Had some hail the other night and I have about half a dozen small dimples localized in a fist sized area on the hood. A buddy said wait til it's hot out and the jeep has been sitting in the sun, then rub an ice cube over them. Supposedly the temp diff will "pop" them back up. Has anyone ever heard of this? It's not real noticeable, but I know they're there so it bugs me
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FWIW....That sorta reminds me of what I had heard some years ago. It supposedly works on airplanes, where the metal is going to be thinner......
Heat around the dimple with a heat gun....careful, don't burn the paint. Then drop a small piece of dry ice in the center of the dimple. It should pop right back out.
One guy had nearly 100 dimples on his plane. All but 6 popped out for him.
Heat around the dimple with a heat gun....careful, don't burn the paint. Then drop a small piece of dry ice in the center of the dimple. It should pop right back out.
One guy had nearly 100 dimples on his plane. All but 6 popped out for him.
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I don't know if this will work with small hail dents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ezM66EtBU
pretty neat, though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ezM66EtBU
pretty neat, though
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I had $3,500 in damage from hail to my car a few years back and never did anything to remove it. With it sitting in the hot sun, nearly all of the dents popped out by them self.
Sorry to hear you got damage, it happens to the best of us...
Sorry to hear you got damage, it happens to the best of us...
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I have had good luck with waiting for it to get hot out, then spraying the dimple with a can of compressed air held upside down (the kind you clean your keyboard with)
this is simular to a method the body shops use called shrinking
this is simular to a method the body shops use called shrinking
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Back during WWII in '42 when I was 17 we were building warships at Bethlehelm Steel in Beaumont, TX, well we used a similar method to take out the bows in the steel panels from welding heat shrinking caused by the plates being welded to the framework by using a rosebud torch and someone behind them with a water squirter, worked great