i saw this gizmo in an informercial, it's two suction cups connected by a metal bar and there's a third cup in the middle that has a bolt coming out of it that goes through the bar, you stick the middle cup over your dent and turn the bolt to pull the dent out. anyone use this before?

 

speak of the devil, i have one and i was planning to give it a try either today or tomarrow, more likely tomarrow. I will definately let you know the results. since i don't care about my faded paint i won't even mind if the thing half-works

 

Go to yahoo.com and search for "PDR" or "painless dent removal". http://www.eastwoodcompany.com is now selling the tool. Seems like it wouldn't work at all, but I guess it does- hot glue?? Who would've thought! Let us know if you try it!

 

I saw one at a demo for the local paint supply shop that worked with glue and a glue remover to release them and it didn't harm the paint and was capable of pulling small soft dents. Don't know how the suction cups work though. James

 

stay tuned. tomarrow i'm trying it

 

If it works as good as the Oxi-Clean that same guy used to promote, I'm sold!

 

LOL! that is nothing new, suction cups have been used forever to pull out dents, just look in the snap-on catalog or any auto body tool catalog... one thing thats badass is that welder that tacks a bolt thing on your panel and you just pull the dent with that, its badass

 

NO! it doesn't work, i finally tried it yesterday, and it did more harm than good. and no, obviously it's not safe on all paints, since it RIPPED a chunk of my paint off. it makes more dents where it presses down too! i am pissed. also, it has no suction cups whatsoever. it's actually just flat pieces of plastic you have to glue on the dent. And that oxi clean guy must have trained forever and went through 50 hoods on the commercial until one happened to come out. also notice in the commercial when they do the one car with the deep dent, they don't show you the dent fully coming out, mine pulled out about the same amount as that one did when they stopped rolling. then, they show the guy polishing the car, BUT, they never said if that was a shot of the car before or after the dent got put in there. creative advertising, or as i like to call it, TRICKERY, those stinkin ******! Don't buy it! And now eastwood is selling the same tool? it's a shame, since eastwood is known for quality. a damn shame it is.

 

damn, too bad. guess i gotta learn how to do body work now

buyer beware

 

I think the advantage of the dent puller over suction cups is that you can get a more controlled "pull". And I don't think the eastwood kit is crap; people do make a living off the PDR. I think you're right about the guy practicing on 50 dents first, though. Did the glue really stick that well to the car?

Dans82, I would love that gun... I could've used it on my last job. A deer ran into the side of my friend's mid-80's 4-door GM car, and I had to use a conventional side hammer on the rear door. Then, I had to weld all the damn holes shut. If I had that gun, it would've been so much faster... but I can't justify it to myself. I don't do that much bodywork.

 

If you look closely at the info-mercials you will see it pull out the center dent nicely as it creates two new ones where the bracing suction cups go.

 

and NO, no suction cups, just flat pieces of plastic! you glue them on to your car, sounds like a poor plan to start with huh? and it's not paint safe if your car isn't brand new or has a new paintjob, it yanked a chunk of my 15 year old paint when i used it.

 

thx for the heads up, was thinking of getting it before reading this.