Today i'm working on this limited edition
Ford Puma which has quite a substantial dent over the front section of the nearside wing
and as you can see it's left multiple dents and creases of all shapes and sizes
we also have a kink over the middle of the arch and some small damage towards the back end of
the panel but stay tuned and i'll show you how i can remove all of this with No Filler & No Paint!
Hi everyone it's Jake here from f1st Track Dents and welcome back for another paintless
dent removal video so this week is the turn of this limited edition Ford Puma
now this particular model is the millennium edition released around the year 2000 and a
limited run of a thousand i believe were made in this eye-catching zinc yellow paint finish
alongside the Ford KA and the Ford Focus and this car belongs to a very good friend and
customer of mine so i need to make sure i do a very good job on this one now this vehicle has
sustained quite a nasty bit of damage over the front wing here so we have quite a few
dents & creases to iron out so before i jump into the main repair let's take a closer look
in detail all the main areas of damage so we can work out the best method to carry out this repair
so panning across this panel the overall size of this damage is approximately 420 millimeters
by 200 millimeters and if we look further into the dent we can see that there are four main
areas here that are probably holding all the tension zooming in and panning across we can
see these four areas in detail 1, 2, 3 & 4 we also have these two long horizontal
creases which have pulled in quite a large area around them so i'll need to work on both of these
creases carefully and accurately in order to get them out successfully zooming back
out we can also see this large crown which goes around nearly the whole perimeter of the damage
so i'll need to flatten this back out as all the other sections are pushed up now when the main
impact occurred it also created some distortion over the middle of the wheel arch this can be seen
best from the side view here instead of having a smooth curved profile the wing now has a sharp
ridge pointing outwards this has also caused some distortion under the wing on the wheel arch edge
aside from this damage i also spotted another dent on this panel which is just under the
repeater lamp here luckily this is just a small indentation so it should be fairly easy to remove
now the last thing to mention is that we do have a couple of areas with paint damage
one is just on the edge of the front wing section here and the second is just under the kink of the
wheel arch as we saw earlier the customer is happy just to leave these touched in for now
so with all of that in mind the first thing i need to do is to strip some parts off the car
so i can get clean access behind to push this damage out
okay so as we have quite a complex thing to deal with i want to try and attack it from all angles
so i'll need to remove the headlight therefore i have to remove the front grille which is only
held on by a couple of screws this will then expose one of the screws for the headlight
once both screws are removed i can simply pull out the headlight and disconnect the wiring
lastly i need to remove the inner wing liner so i can attack the dent from underneath
and there we go i now have plenty of access to get on the back of this damage
typically just as i've got set up it's starting to rain slightly so i'm under the umbrella
first i connect my light to the panel and i've decided to start
with my double bend tool with my large rubber tip
i'm warming the panel up slightly with my hot air gun so as not to crack the paint then i slide
the bar underneath i've decided to attack area one and two first as i think that will help me
release some tension in the panel using the tool i'm just pushing up all of the tight areas which
will bring this edge back to shape so now section one is roughed out time to start on section two
using the same tip i'm pushing up this tight area at the bottom although as you can see this section
is much tighter than section one so i need to give it some more heat and push it a little bit harder
now you can start to see the metal move although not as cleanly as i would like
but i'm only just roughing this wing out so i'm not too concerned about it at this stage
so as you can see the metal is starting to move but we do have quite a few high areas
and low areas to deal with and some crowns around the front section
so using the same tip i continue pushing up all the remaining lows in this section
next i can start to address the crown at the front using my hammer with a soft rubber tip
using some sharp hammer blows i can start to flatten this crown which
will help get this area at the front smooth again
right now i'm going to work on section 4 here as this section is also holding a lot of tension
now because some of the tension has been released at section 1 and 2 section 4 here is moving a lot
more easily and comes up in no time at all with very little effort perfect now i can move my light
board over to concentrate on the front part of the panel so the last part in this panel to remove
is section three here although because of the way the metal is pushed out we now have an additional
low area here to remove which i'm going to call section 3a both these low areas can be seen here
just giving the panel some heat and then i'm going to concentrate on section 3 first
and as you can see this section pushes up nicely
next i'm moving over here to concentrate on this new low area section 3a
and just like section 3 it pushes up nicely without too much trouble
right now it's time to get to work on what's left of these two line creases
the first one i'm going to tackle is this one at the top
so to prevent any damage from the leverage of my bars i'm going to use a cloth just
here at the opening so i'm using my longer screw on tip bar with a standard rubber tip
so once the panel is warmed up i just slide the bar through the open gap at the front here which
allows me to get straight on the back of this crease then starting at one end of the crease
i carefully push along lifting up the low ridge as i go making sure i lift all of the crease up
now time to warm the panel up again and i'm going to push out this second crease here at the bottom
running parallel to the one at the top again i'm moving slowly along this crease pushing the middle
up as i go until eventually it's all pushed up with just a few minor high areas to tap down
now i'm switching up to my plastic vinyl tip with this tip i'm going to lift up this low area at the
bottom of the wing where section 1 and 2 were at the very beginning of the repair so again i
apply just a little bit of heat and i can go in with this final tip lifting up these low areas
any low areas that have come up too high can just be tapped back down again with my tap down tools
and already i've reached a halfway stage and as you can see panning across all the
main elements of this damage are out now i can concentrate some of the other parts of this repair
now i dealt with most of the crowns around the perimeter of the dent after pushing up
all of the low sections the only crown left is this one at the top section here
using my led light board i can position it to allow me to get the best view of it then using
my hammer i'm just gradually tapping down this high area slowly flattening it down and blending
it back into the adjacent metals surrounding it in addition to using the hammer i'm also using
my aluminium knockdown with a standard rubber tip to flatten out the sharper sections as the metal
moves i switch from my hammer to my aluminium knockdown until i'm happy with the result
and there we go for now the large crown is removed i'll clean this up even more at a later stage
now i need to take care of this distortion over the middle of the wheel arch luckily it has now
reduced in size since pulling out the main bulk of the damage but we still have this minor kink
here and this high ridge going up the panel there is also a slight indentation in the lower
lip underneath the wheel arch edge which you can see here so to remove this i'm using my knockdown
with a standard rubber tip and i'm just basically hammering this edge until it goes back level again
i'm also going up the panel to remove the high ridge the underneath has flattened out
nicely i only need to tap down a couple of high areas and there we go this section is now done
now the main arrows are up i just need to go back over the repair to iron out all the micro highs
and lift up the micro lows to bring up some of these micro highs i'm using my plastic bullet tip
this is sometimes when the majority of the time is spent pushing up all these
tiny micro loads one by one i generally do this in small sections and then move on to the next
and then i use my plastic bullet tip on my knock down to tap down all the micro highs
slowly but surely the panel is straightening out nicely again
here i'm using a different bar to come in through the front to lift up all the small micro loads
believe it or not i chose this day to do this job because the forecast
said it was going to be sun and cloud all day well they got that wrong!
oh well you can't beat a bit of British Weather!
now the rain has stopped it's time to tackle this additional piece of damage
that i highlighted earlier and i've even noticed another slight high ridge a bit further up next
to the repeater lamp which you can see here so i'm going to warm the panel up first and i'm going in
behind with my plastic vinyl tip this is quite a straightforward dent to do i just need to be
accurate with my pushes and using this tip i can slowly move across the whole dent raising it up
for any areas that have come up too high i'll just tap them down again using my plastic bullet tip
then to remove this gradual high ridge i'm just using my hammer with a large rubber tip
and i'm striking this ridge until all the metal levels out again
and there we go this additional section of damage is now complete
because i spent a lot of time on the fine tuning stage i just need to give the panel a polish
with some ultra fine compound this will take off any marks made by the
paintless dent removal process and give the panel a deep rich shine
once wiped down i can then get on with putting all the parts back on the car
so the first part to put back is the headlight i just need to
connect the wiring back up and then attach it using the two screws i removed earlier
next i can screw the front grille back into place which again is just held on with two screws
the last thing to do is put the wing liner back under the wheel arch and fix it back into position
then i can close the bonnet and check out the FINAL RESULT!
well as always thanks again for sticking around to the end of the video this particular repair
took quite a lot of time and effort to get it back into this state again although i thoroughly
enjoyed this one because the customer is a real Ford enthusiast and was thrilled to bits by the
final result and as usual the changing weather conditions created a lot of problems and made
this more challenging for me but you know what nothing stops me from getting a repair done.
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