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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: buddfridge on 27 July 2016, 13:35
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Just been watching some videos on youtube and then checked the kits out on ebay...they look to good to be true , has anybody used one or had some work done by one of these kit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehdU8MEDyk
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PDR-Paintless-Dent-Puller-Lifter-Removal-Silde-Hammer-Line-Board-Repair-Tool-Kit-/112072880784?hash=item1a18107290:g:3EUAAOSwcl1XPWVJ
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I've used a PDR specialist four or five times over the years and have been very impressed.I don't think I'd buy the tools though and have a go myself,be like giving a monkey a gun.Much better to leave this sort of thing to the experts.
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Yeah I have had it done the old fashioned way but this is a new concept to me. I couldnt resist so I have just bought one but I will not use on mine unless I have practiced first on the wifes car.
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Saw Ed China using something similar on Wheeler Dealers (Dicovery Channel). Brilliant, if you know what you're doing, but I bet you could make a mess. I'll practice on your car! :whistle:
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Better to keep your money and give it to a PDR expert on the rare (hopefully!) occasion you get a dent IMO.
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they are a good piece of kit if you use them right , great for box section where there is no access from the behind the panel . practise is essential .
it may be worth getting a scrap body panel to play with until you get the hang of it , if your not careful you end up with a big lump , best doing it in small goes until you get it somewhere near
also be warned that some times you can pull the paint of with the peg :whistle:
I know from experience spent 37 yrs doing PDR so seen it all
Oh and don't forget that glue sticks to fingers as well ouch
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Yeah cheers I won't jump in its just something that interests me for my own use.
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I don't know if you watched the video right through but when the 2nd peg on the glue fell off you could clearly see the dent was still there.
Then he wiped it and the dent had miraculously gone. :grin: :grin:
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I know from experience spent 37 yrs doing PDR so seen it all
You did PDR for a living? I always assumed you were indeed a physio, or do you do both? Clever chappie!
Care to share any hints and tips? My old car has more ripples than a lake during a gale down the sides so that would be a good car to practice on! The poor thing has had nearly 20 years of work and supermarket car parks, been arse ended (only at parking speed so not badly damaged), clipped by an artic on the front wing and bumper and god knows what else in its life.
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I remember the PDR guy that I use telling me that dent removal on older cars is much more difficult or even impossible. Something to do with the way the panels are made nowadays makes PDR much more feasible.
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I remember the PDR guy that I use telling me that dent removal on older cars is much more difficult or even impossible. Something to do with the way the panels are made nowadays makes PDR much more feasible.
Yes, indeed, my 20 year old (VW group) car has proper metal panels and my mk7 is made of recycled bean cans.
My old GTI was clipped by an artic a year or so ago (whilst parked up) and just has a small dent in the front wing and a bit of chipped paint. If my mk7 had been parked there I don't think it would have got off that lightly.
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I remember the PDR guy that I use telling me that dent removal on older cars is much more difficult or even impossible. Something to do with the way the panels are made nowadays makes PDR much more feasible.
Thinner panels don't help modern cars steer clear of dings, nor does ever increasing levels of Copper in recycled steel, making it softer/more malleable.
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I remember the PDR guy that I use telling me that dent removal on older cars is much more difficult or even impossible. Something to do with the way the panels are made nowadays makes PDR much more feasible.
Thinner panels don't help modern cars steer clear of dings, nor does ever increasing levels of Copper in recycled steel, making it softer/more malleable.
Nor does careless idiots flinging their doors open or ramming their supermarket trolleys onto your doors.
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I remember the PDR guy that I use telling me that dent removal on older cars is much more difficult or even impossible. Something to do with the way the panels are made nowadays makes PDR much more feasible.
Thinner panels don't help modern cars steer clear of dings, nor does ever increasing levels of Copper in recycled steel, making it softer/more malleable.
Nor does careless idiots flinging their doors open or ramming their supermarket trolleys onto your doors.
I always look for the "Sheldon spot" in any car park and won't park next to anything tatty or an obvious carrier of small kids. I do find that people up here in the North East are a bit more respectful of other people's in general (there are a lot of newish cars up here) When I visit my Dad down in Southampton, people are so brazen about flinging the door of their 12 year old Fiesta open against your new Golf and when challenged they just say "it's only a car". Easy to say that when you're driving something that doubles in value every time you fill up!
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Them new ford RS's have a protector on the door edge that pops out only as the door is opened,really good idea.Stops you scuffing your door edge.
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Good idea but pretty pointless if you're careful. Which we probably all are.
Now if it could protect you from others opening their door onto you, that would be a winner.