Celica Forums General Discussion General Got A Door Ding Today >_<

Anyone know the best way to take care of door dings? A girl at my school hit my door with hers since it was really windy today. Left a nice little dent and some red paint on my silver celi. Any tips?

is it a big dent?

no its relatively small.. maybe nickel sized

i ahve dings as well i leave em, i dont bother using the cover up that toyota provides i think it just makes it worse really, dunno maybe someone has some better advice.

I got tons of dings. Wouldn't want to try fixing it myself and create a bigger mess.

there should be places that do "painless dent removal" around you, which takes out dents like that niceley for relitavely cheap. my dad does that anytime he gets a ding, can't even tell it happened, paint isnt even damaged in the process. i'm gonna have that done to my celi soon...

Pops-a-dent [pops-a-dent.com]

only $19.95 as seen on TV

or just leave it

welcome to the dent club...mine has door dings and hail damage...shit those are the best mods on the car...makes it like a golf ball...baby just flies through the air!

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I think im going to try buffing compound to get the scuff out... but as for the ding I guess it'll just be an eyesore

Here's a suggestion - have the girl at least try and SUCK THE DING OUT...send video!!!

mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh

Once you've got a ding, you're pretty much stuck with it until the area can be repainted. Probably best to wait a couple of years and then get a paint job, I dunno. The trick is to not get the ding in the first place. I'm incredibly picky about where I park my car. If I'm parking at a mall or store, I always insist on parking on the end, and leave lots of space for the car next to me. I'll park far out as necessary, and walk a lot of extra distance. Same applies at work. I'm lucky we have a big parking area at work with lots of space.

Anyway, sorry to hear, I hate dings.

Do these as seen on tv crap actually works tho? My aunt purchase that vacuum that supposedly able to suck and hold a bowling ball but when I used it to clean my car, it did not suck jack. Weak!

Nope, those don't work at all. I used it back when I had my Grand Am and it didn't even come close to popping any of my dents back. Thing thing is basically hot-glue; do you think hot glue is going to pull hard enough on metal to pop it back out? Not likely.

if you ever have a ding most affortable thing you can do is get a blowdryer and hold it close to the ding and it'll pop right out...

I managed to buff out all the red that was on there. The local toyota garage has a guy come around every tuesday and thursday that manipulates dents and they said fixing it will be no problem

remove the door trim and pop it yourself

or you can try a toilet plunger

Ok, so I've managed to go 3 years without a SINGLE ding. And it's not because I don't drive my car. Quite the opposite. 21,000 miles per year. After three years, that changed in a single afternoon. Here I am working in the garage on the car, something falls off the wall and clips the driver's front fender. Left about a two inch "ding" in the fender and a little bit of white paint. I took care of the paint, but the damn ding is still there. I'm thinking of removing the fender liner and taking a small rock hammer and reverse it out. I get my exercise from walking to and from my car. I'm the car that's the furthest from any entrance to a certain place.

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man you wanna see a ding lol check this out...

gotta love people who hit ya, then take off...no note no nothing... i have to get a whole new fender because of where it is, and how it bent...

^^ try poping it urself, may need to sand it down and repaint at most

post a pic of the dent and I will PM you the method (can't let everyone know the tricks of the traid)

im a rook and dont know how to post pics