Some moral support regarding a ding !

[dellyend1]

Hi all, had my GT6 a week and having never dinged a car in the garage low be behold something has managed to drop off a shelf and ding the rear quarter of the car . I am pretty gutted ! I think it was a rampaging squirrel knocking a paint canister off.

 

anyway , I’m was not worried about paint as the car needs a full respray but I am rather anxious about the dent. I’d just like to know views / opinions from others experience as to how easily it is fixed at the point of respraying ? 
 

pics below and just trying to suss out of it could be pulled out from the surface by a body shop or if it is a filler job. I’ve had a look from inside the car and I think it is doubled skinned in that area and no way of getting acces to try and tap it out from underneath . 
 

if it could be improved by being pulled up from the surface I would probably take it to a body shop to get done in advance of a respray which I had planned for next year

any advice welcome as pretty annoyed 

 

with thanks 

 

jeremy

[Colin Lindsay]

Do you have a local Dentmaster? 

https://www.dentmasteruk.co.uk

[Pete Lewis]

anyone tried the freeze and heat to restore metal memory and dings / dents disappear 

ive not seen the adverts for that for a long time but it was supposed to work 

Pete

[PeteH]

If you are going to have to refinish anyway?. The old trick of welding a bolt/stud into the base of the ding, and pulling it out?. it won`t come right out but should then fill and re-profile?.

Pete.

[Paul H]

You could drill a hole and use a slide hammer with the corkscrew attachment 

Paul

[Peter Truman]

A member of our club here in Melb is "Mr Dent" remover and hat he achieves is just short of marvellous I'd give them (your local equivalent) a try also relatively cheap.

[poppyman]

I have seen Dentmaster remove bigger dents than that without repainting. Some of those guy's work miracles. And from memory don't charge for a quote.

Tony.

[Ian Faulds]

The guys are all correct, that will come out OK, get on to dent master, they are really good

[Badwolf]

Rampaging squirrel eh?? Love to see any insurance claim for that! I must remember to keep my garage doors closed. We have rather too many around for my liking and if they are now taking pot shots at Triumphs!!!???.....

[Pete Lewis]

Awe   Nuts   

our cat brought a squirrel in via the cat flap     he found it easy as the week before we ended up with a fat pigeon 

whats all the banging and crashing ..   its Barley with his bird  .... hides them under the sofa  

pete

[Chris A]

Yes cats bringing in birds is the worse! Feathers everywhere, mice and the like are fine as long as they are dead on arrival or soon after 😖 It's when they put them down and go and have a snack then when they come back look surprised the mouse isn't there any more.

While on the cat theme, we passed our interview and inspection last Saturday by a lost/abandoned cat and we are up to 4 now.

[Colin Lindsay]

6 minutes ago, Chris A said:

Yes cats bringing in birds is the worse! Feathers everywhere

For months I was finding feathers on my garage floor, little piles of really dry stuff but no bones or carcasses. I couldn't understand it as my cats don't go in there, even if I'm working with the doors open. 

Eventually I moved the Herald body tub and had a huge puff of feathers come from the old bedspread I had covered it with. Came from my Grandfather's house many years ago and now has a tear, so the bird bits are escaping....

[Roger K]

If you are planning to have the body refinished in the near future, I'd probably leave it for the bodyshop, if they're any good.  I don't think you'd get that dent out from the outside - and I don't think the body is double skinned at that point, is it?  Needs checking, I think you could get access to the back of that.  Either way, unless you know what you're doing I wouldn't try to fix that yourself.  If you end up stretching or creasing the metal you make the repair a lot more difficult (and expensive).

[Mathew]

At least it is not sharp. Hot glue gun and a puller might do it. Warm the panel carefully with a hot air gun and a gentle push with a round stick from behind. Careful not to push too hard and get a point .