# Dent

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent/7068>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [November 9, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent/7068 "2007-11-09T14:30:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![paulapnina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@paulapnina](https://community.cartalk.com/u/paulapnina)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent/7068/1 "2007-11-09T14:30:23Z")

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Is there such a thing as a “dent plunger” to pull out the soccer-ball-size dent that some anonymous person left in my fender?

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**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:** [November 9, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent/7068/2 "2007-11-09T14:51:59Z")

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A toilet plunger works if the dent isn’t too severe.

Tester

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**Author:** ![andrew\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@andrew\_j](https://community.cartalk.com/u/andrew_j)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent/7068/3 "2007-11-09T15:20:34Z")

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If you care enough to remove it I would suggest “dent wizard” service to perform the removal. They produce very professional results and quite inexpensively.

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**Author:** ![hellokit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6a8cbe/32.png) [@hellokit](https://community.cartalk.com/u/hellokit)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent/7068/4 "2007-11-10T17:31:38Z")

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There’s a dent puller tool which acts like a suction cup and uses a glue to pull dents. I have’t used it; but, it couldn’t hoit to try it.

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**Author:** ![mr\_josh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mr_josh/32/3008_2.png) [@mr\_josh](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mr_josh)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dent/7068/5 "2007-11-10T20:04:10Z")

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There are also large suction cups that are intended solely for pulling out large, shallow dents.

The problem with pulling a dent yourself is that when something impacts your car and leaves a dent, the metal tends to stretch, and that makes pulling the dent a lot trickier than you’d think. I think andrew\_j had the right idea when he suggested taking it to a paintless dent removal service.