# Dent Removal **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [May 25, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent-removal/14414 "2008-05-25T00:15:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![melott](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/melott/32/10827_2.png) [@melott](https://community.cartalk.com/u/melott)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent-removal/14414/1 "2008-05-25T00:15:55Z")
I have a car in good shape except for a lot of small dents, mostly in the range of size of coins, some a bit bigger. The paint looks undamaged in these spots. I recall these “dent removal services” that, I think, pop them out rather than doing filler. Decades ago I was warned not to use them: the word was it broke the undercoat layer beneath the paint, and you’d eventually get a cancer spot. Was this advice true? Is it still true? ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent-removal/14414/2 "2008-05-25T00:18:24Z")
I have used painless dent removal several times with good results. IMHO, it does less damaging than disturbing the original paint and repainting. It’s also very cheap, about $100-200 for a typical dent. ---
**Author:** ![Skipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skipper](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Skipper)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent-removal/14414/3 "2008-05-25T12:00:57Z")
The person that said not to use them was probably a regular body shop. I’ve not seen any problems from it, and we use them quite a bit on hail storms. I really wish more shops would learn the technique, I believe it would save us a lot of money, but regular body work pays more, so I doubt they will. Skip ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 12:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent-removal/14414/4 "2008-05-25T12:06:49Z")
The place I use is a real mom and pop place run by a guy and his son. It’s in between a row of used car dealers, he does most of his work cleaning up cars for them. ---
**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent-removal/14414/5 "2008-05-25T13:56:36Z")
[http://ltitools.com/lt820large.htm](http://ltitools.com/lt820large.htm) Here’s a video of paintless dent repair. Tester ---
**Author:** ![melott](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/melott/32/10827_2.png) [@melott](https://community.cartalk.com/u/melott)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent-removal/14414/6 "2008-05-25T22:45:05Z")
How much does this cost per dent? Most of mine are small, more like “dings”. ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent-removal/14414/7 "2008-05-25T22:52:01Z")
Maybe $100 each for the small ones. Maybe you can get a better deal if you have a bunch of them fixed at once. ---
**Author:** ![meaneyedcatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meaneyedcatz/32/692_2.png) [@meaneyedcatz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meaneyedcatz)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent-removal/14414/8 "2008-05-31T19:03:34Z")
The person that said not to use them was probably a regular body shop. Or it could have been somebody with no clue about what they were talking about.