Hi everyone it's Jake Quintin here from 1st Track Dents and welcome back for
another YouTube video, okay so today I'm going to be turning this into this....
Okay so today we're doing a large rear door dent on a Volkswagen Polo, if you've
seen some of my other YouTube videos you'll notice that I have actually done
a a large door dent repair before on a VW Polo which is about here, if you
haven't seen that one already and you're interested in seeing it go check that
one out. so basically someone's turned in and
damaged this car probably with their bumper when the car was parked up, the
customer didn't see it happen but it's left a very substantial dent on the rear
door. It's quite a complex dent, it's got lots going on we've got quite a large
impact crease here and the body line is actually quite flattened so that's going
to be difficult to try and reshape, there's a groove also running in the top,
the frames kinked at the bottom here as wel,l where it's going in it's twisted so
it's also deformed at the top here as well we've got a large protruding crown
here where it's again it's kind of twisted the frame. We've got the crash
bar here as in my previous repair on the Volkswagen Polo door you've seen the
crash bar runs this way so the crash bar is pushing out. We can't really deal with
that until we pulled this section out, so we're going to release all the tension
from the crash bar, once that's out we can then address that we can tap that down
remove that. We've also got secondary damage this was damaged before this
actually happened but we're going to get this out as well and also I believe this
was a separate incident as well on this this dent here. So the customer is
actually a student studying at the moment and he's taking this to a few
body shops and the repair bill for something like this was just
astronomical so he found me online I initially looked it from the photos and
said I think he's probably going to need a new door the customer said to me look
I'm only looking for an improvement if you can get it out as best as you can
that would be great, but I'm taking on as a bit of a challenge I'm going to see
how how good we can get this I'm hoping to get it to a stage where we can get to
about 95 98 percent it's a good example of what PDR can do if used in the right
way. So I've got the glue gun warming up I've got my tools ready so let's get
started...
So I've tried my best with the glue pulling on this unfortunately I think
the metal is just too tight there's too much tension in the panel for the glue
to pull this panel out What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take the internal trim off
I'm going to go inside the panel using traditional PDR tools and we're going to
push it out that way.
From the noises I'm getting from tapping this panel I can tell that the panel is
actually stretched, so I can't work in one area too much as I could lose the
panel it could just end up sinking in and then just popping in and out and so
I'm trying to move around different areas of the panel tightening it up
spending a bit of time here and then spending a bit of time over here
bringing the low out here tapping this high spot here because if you spend too
long on one area you will stretch it. You've got to kind of slowly just
manipulate back and hope that we can get the tension back in the panel
I'm just moving back over to this area here where there's loads of tiny or
micro low spots let's see if I can remove some of those
Okay so the repairs just getting close to the halfway stage now. This area is
particularly giving me a lot of trouble when I'm tapping around this area here
it almost sounds like a steel drum so I'm having to work that area very very
carefully using now some very sharp tools I'm probably gonna give myself a
bit of a break on this one now and move over to this dent here this is quite
standard dent to do and then maybe move up to this one this one's a little bit
more tricky then come back to this area and all the fine detail work to finish
it off.
It's quite good access up into this area here there's no obstruction so I may use
I think I only use the bendable Johnson maybe on this then it's a shape a bit.
So there we go that dent is now done.
Okay so this dents a little bit more tricky it's very very close to this edge
so the edge is very strong if you look carefully down this this angle you can
see that the edge is gone in slightly so that is also gonna create a lot strength
in this dent so I think I'm going to try and pull it out with some glue, once I've
got as much as I can up the glue then I'll go and behind and push it out using
the PDR tools
Okay so we finished repair we've done it just in time as daylight is just now
disappearing, we site up with the glue pulling didn't have too much success
with it some of the glue tabs did stick it may have been that the metal was just
so creased and it was so tight and strong that it just didn't want to move, I
knew that we'd have to go inside the door at some stage with the PDR bars and
push the damage out from the inside, so I used the the Ultra-Dent screw tip bar
with the large rubber tip on this one,
again I went down the almost like going down the grades really from the large
tip to the rubber tip to the Nylon tip then to the fine metal tips, It's
probably about 90% on this bit here couldn't really work it too much because
the metal was stretched and we were in danger of losing it
and we had to bear in mind that we was only trying to improve this repair. I
feel about a fantastic result on this one considering most body shops would
put a door on this all day long. I think we've managed to save the door,
save the customer some money on this one and yeah achieved great result . So once
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