I've got a small dent on the hatch of our car. Can these be PDR'd? I didn't want to have someone try to push it and create a bigger problem. Its pretty small and I'm probably the only one that sees it, but I'm the one that counts. LOL

 

I've had PDR work done on aluminum cars. Just do your research first and make sure that the tech has experience working with aluminum.

 

I recently had a door ding PDR'ed.
The tech had no issues - he said he thought the Jag aluminum was "more stout" than other Al cars he's done, whatever that means...
The repair is 100% invisible.

 

British aluminum weighs more for some reason..hence our cars being such porkers.

 

Had a small door ding PDR'd while my car was being serviced a couple of years ago. They have someone come in for that so I'm sure they got a cut, but it saved me time. Also, it was someone they trusted to do good work on the al-you-minium bodywork. They did such a good job that I'd forgotten about it until now. I know where to look so can find it when the car is clean, but I really do need to search for it.

 

Thanks. I'm going to get mine in and have the dent pushed.

 

it's because of the extra letter in the name, as we and the Brits have it "aluminium".

But yeah no problem with that, I've had 2 dings taken out of mine (door and rear quarter) - as long as the paint isnt compromised there is usually no drama if they are using the glue method, and even if it is scuffed a little there is usually no drama if they use the rods from behind.

 

That's because the British use Al' lu min' ium

 

Ours has perfect vision because of the 2 'i's ...

 

I just had a tiny dent, size of a single hail stone damage, pulled by a local PDR shop yesterday. It was on the passenger side rear fender, on the small flat area above the fuel cap. Barely noticeable, but every time I filled up, I would see it. $100 cash and it was gone. The rep said it took him about twice as long to remove as the same size dent on a steel car, but the method was still the same. Its as if it was never there. Money well spent.

 

I had the smallest ding about half the size of a fingernail

Had PDR with zero issues. Only took the tech 3 minutes, 30s of which he actually worked on the dent. Rest was removing and reinstalling a small panel.

He worked on it from the inside with a long rod and basically just pushed it back into place. $50 well spent!

 

Any idea how they accessed that area to get to the dent? Any rattles and squeaks as a result of them having to take things apart to access it?

I have that exact dent on my car but on the driver's side. Not happy about it, but have been living with it as I was not sure how much of the car would have to be disassembled to get to it. I was worried about rattles and squeaks as a result of the disassembly to access the dent.

 

We decided not to attempt to reach the dent from the inside to avoid the need to remove panels. They used the simple hot glue pulling method. It took a while, approximately a dozen or so incremental pulls, but eventually it came out perfect.

 

The tech actually only pulled open the panel of the door that is neither the interior nor exterior (let me know if I am explaining this panel poorly)

Was a simple enough removal and reinstall. I was definitely hesitant at first too but he said since I have had paint correction and coating he wanted to avoid touching the paint.

Guess the takeaway here is there’s more than one way to skin a cat!