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Tried to fix a hail dent on my own truck and made it 10x worse
Last Saturday I got a bright idea to save some cash and tackle a quarter-sized hail dent on the hood of my 2012 Ram. Used a heat gun and a can of compressed air like I saw on YouTube. Ended up popping the paint clean off in a three-inch circle. Now I gotta respray the whole hood. Anyone else ever turn a ten-minute job into a week-long project?
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graym4916d ago
Read that same trick back when I tried fixing a small rust spot on my old truck. Heard a body shop guy say once that compressed air trick only works on plastic panels, not metal. That heat gun probably softened the paint right before the cold shock peeled it off. At least you stopped before you melted the whole hood.
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tyler49216d ago
Oh man, you're totally right... I did that once on my beater Civic and ended up with a paint bubble the size of a dinner plate. Looked like the car had some kind of weird skin condition after I hit it with the air can. Guess I was hoping for a magic fix instead of just sanding it down like a normal person. At least my hood didn't end up looking like a dalmatian with heat rash... small victories I guess.
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