Paintless Dent Repair??

[MossRoad]

Man, I'll bet our car had at least 90 dents in it from that hail storm. My wife and 1 of our kids and I were walking to the car in a parking lot and we hear what sounded like pinging, like metal ball bearings bouncing. Getting louder and louder, yet we were in bright sunlight. Then we saw white balls bouncing UP about 200 yards away and a white wall coming towards us. It was the weirdest sound. And we could see people running, so I grabbed them and threw them in the car just as it hit us. It was so loud! I was worried about it taking out the rear windshield or sunroof, so I had the kid stand up in the back seat under the metal part and we waited it out. Probably 10 minutes solid. The hail averaged about 1.5" in diameter. Every car, home, business, etc... sustained massive damage in about a .5 x 1 mile swath. As I mentioned before, the only panels on the car that didn't have dents were the driver's side doors as they were on the downwind side. It was brutal. All the leaves and small branches got stripped off the trees. Roofs on houses in the windward side were stripped. Vinyl siding was gone. Pool covers, gazebos, awnings didn't stand a chance. Quite amazing no one was seriously injured.

 

[Grumpycat]

Found myself caught on interstate, hailstorm, aluminum car (Tesla). Fortunately got under a bridge in time.

 

[two_bit_score]

Found myself caught on interstate, hailstorm, aluminum car (Tesla). Fortunately got under a bridge in time.

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Doesn't AL lend itself to repiar by dent pulling better than steel?

 

[Grumpycat]

Doesn't AL lend itself to repiar by dent pulling better than steel?

Apparently it is the opposite. When aluminum bends it cold works, gets stiffer. Makes it much harder to remove the seams formed by metal stiffening when the dent is formed.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Many years ago (about 45) I'm riding a bicycle with a 6'5" 350# friend when in a curve in the road he hit the ditch. It bent the front wheel double. He wasn't hurt so I said quick, hold either side of wheel while I pulled opposite sides. A loud pop and it went back straight. Not that I knew anything what I was doing but it went back perfectly straight and we continued on.
I've always thought metal was "funny" in that once formed it wants to keep that shape. I'll always think if that bent wheel stayed bent over time it wouldn't pop out, it would "want" to stay bent.

 

[two_bit_score]

Many years ago (about 45) I'm riding a bicycle with a 6'5" 350# friend when in a curve in the road he hit the ditch. It bent the front wheel double. He wasn't hurt so I said quick, hold either side of wheel while I pulled opposite sides. A loud pop and it went back straight. Not that I knew anything what I was doing but it went back perfectly straight and we continued on.
I've always thought metal was "funny" in that once formed it wants to keep that shape. I'll always think if that bent wheel stayed bent over time it wouldn't pop out, it would "want" to stay bent.

I agree. I’ve had better luck bumping out “fresh” dents than older ones.