This week we're looking at a re-edit of an old video I did many years ago on this Sierra
Cosworth which is a soft dent right on the body line but equally as challenging i'm going to show
you how i repaired and tidied up this previous substandard PDR repair done by someone else, so
keep watching and i'll explain all the steps it took me to repair this from start to finish!
Hi everyone it's Jake from 1st Track Dents and welcome back for another paintless dent removal
video today, i'm revisiting an old repair i did on this Ford Sierra Cosworth which was
around four to five years ago, anyway i was up on my old YouTube channel and got filed away
when i created this new channel. Interestingly though, the customer is the owner of the yellow
Ford Puma I did last year and he was always asking me when i was going to re-edit this one
and put it back up so Clark i've finally done it! Now if you remember when i repaired the yellow Ford
Puma i almost got completely soaked as it hammered down with torrential rain so if you want to laugh
at me in that video you can always click the link up here in the top right hand corner.
Well i remember when i turned up in the morning to do this job it also hammered
down with torrential rain so we had to postpone and book for another day and then when i did
come around to film this job typically it was bright intense sunshine which also made
it difficult to do because of the harsh light Actually i'm glad i put this one back up as it
shows me correcting a previous bad PDR repair which was also on the same front panel so
i'll show you how i managed to tackle that during this video, but before we get into the video
let's take a closer look in detail all the damage that needs to be repaired...
So looking at the complete panel here there are two main areas to deal with section (A) and section
(B) now section (A) is the main dent that i'm here to remove today and that measures approximately
360 millimeters by 240 millimeters section (B) is a substandard PDR repair that was already
there when the customer purchased this vehicle and i've promised to tidy that
up as much as possible that repair measures approximately 120 millimeters by 100 millimeters.
Right going back to both these repair sections let's first look at section
(A) from this angle under the led fog light you can see that we're dealing with a soft
dent that has pushed the body line in probably around 15 millimeters and if
you look closely we have a high ridge quite visible over the top of the dent just here
and if we look at the view from the other side you can see it clearly here
this is where the metal has been forced upwards from the impact. Now also at the front of this
panel there is another high ridge just here almost over the center of the panel on the wheel arch
section it's a little bit difficult to see but you may just be able to pick it up. Right now let's
look at section (B) the previous PDR repair that was on this vehicle. Initially the customer didn't ask
me to repair this as he thought it was some type of corrosion but on closer inspection it was easy
to see that was a previous bad PDR repair where possibly an inexperienced PDR tech or dent DIYer
had used too sharp a tool to try and push this out which left this mangled mess of high spots
if you look closely here you can still see that there's a little pit in the middle of this repair
so that will need to be pushed up too. I told my customer that i would tidy this up the best i
can although i couldn't guarantee how well it would come out but i said it should look a whole
lot better. Okay so that's what i'm dealing with so time now to get on with the repair...
The first section i'm going to work on here is section (A) the main dent
so i need to warm up the area to soften the paint slightly so the paint doesn't crack
then i'm using my screw on tip bar with a large rubber tip.
Placing this under the panel and getting some good leverage off the tyre i'm able to push
horizontally across the width of the dent almost bringing up the entire bodyline in one pass
Now the low is pushed up I'm able to use my soft tip on my
hammer to attack the high ridge over the main dent
i'm able to bring this metal down back into the low section below it.
i'm still using my screw on tip bar although now i've switched the tip to my standard rubber tip
Now I'm warming up the paint again then I'm going to lift up the remaining
smaller low areas that the large rubber tip left behind
Now I'm going to tap down this high ridged area sitting over the middle of
the panel which i showed you in my analysis earlier which is situated right here first
i'm using my large rubber tip on my tap down to get the bulk of the ridge down
and then i'm switching over to my standard rubber tip to remove the remaining part of the high ridge
this takes a lot of time and patience as i don't want to be making any low spots in the
panel as that will add time on to the end of the repair and there we go the high ridge is gone
To bring up some of the micro lows I'm using my plastic vinyl tip
using this bar with the tip under the panel, I'm
able to get right behind these small low areas and push them up one by one
You may just be able to see the movement in the middle of the screen on the body line
Using my tap down tool from Edgy Tools with a plastic bullet tip
i'm able to remove any high areas created from the pushing behind,
then using my screw on tip bar with my plastic vinyl tip i'm pushing in the
area above the body line to remove any micro lows
Then using my tap down tool I'm also able to tap down any high areas up in this section
Okay now for the fun bit here in section (B) time to tackle this messy previous PDR repair and see
if i can make something good out of it. This shows you how you really need to search for
a good PDR tech who knows how to use his tools as this looks like the result of someone trying
to push his original dent up with the incorrect tools or using tool tips that were way too sharp
To be fair every PDR tech has to start somewhere hopefully the PDR tech that did this has now
become a great tech who does perfect repairs every time. First of all have to tap down the sharp high
spots with my tap down i'm not using anything too sharp as it may crack this already fragile paint
Once these are tapped down I then warm up the panel and I'm using my sharp plastic
bullet tip again, using this tip I'm able to get into the sharp low areas and lift them up
It's then a matter of repeating this process of lifting up and
tapping down until i can get the panel as level as possible
i'm taking my time with this as the paint has been
so stretched over these high spots that will easily crack if i'm not too careful
so far so good, luckily it looks like I should be able to improve this previous repair massively
I managed to lightly sand some of the sharp high spots on section (B)
and then I polished the complete panel as there was a little bit of paint transfer on section (A)
after a final wipe it's now time to check out the FINAL RESULT!
well I really hope you enjoyed watching one of my older videos which was refreshed from my archives
I was really pleased how the main dent came out luckily it was a soft dent so it didn't create too
much of a problem although it still took quite a lot of work getting the body line back nice
and straight again. The main concern on this one was correcting the previous bad PDR repair at
section (B) which I found much harder to do than the main body line repair at section (A) luckily this
old repair cleaned up nicely otherwise it would have let down the overall appearance
of the entire panel so the customer and I were really pleased about this turned out in the end.
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