BRZN Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 Since my last write-up, Michelle has passed her driver's test and has the car on the road. She's driving it back and forth to school, work and her boyfriends. She also understands the price of gas! Yesterday I took her '94 GP to get the dents pulled out at a Paintless Dent Repair shop: Carisma in West Chester, PA. The car had the normal door dings, some hail damage on the hood and roof and a couple larger dents from what appeared to have been something dropped on it. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves: All Cleaned up and ready Wednesday evening: The LR Quarter had three dents in it with missing paint. Looked like something was dropped on it. I'd put touch-up paint in the scratches and chip (six scratches, one chip). Once I got the car back home I wet sanded the paint and buffed: He got out this larger dent in the hood along with all the hail damage: I didn't bother with the minor hail damage in the roof. I didn't want to pay someone else to remove the headliner, the damage was pretty minor and the paint up there pretty thin, with some missing clear. I'll be pulling the headliner out myself soon enough as the material is pulling away, perhaps I'll take it back to him then. A large ding in the drivers door as well as all the smaller ones gone: He couldn't get this one out. The fender is double walled in this location and a tool couldn't reach it. He even tried to drill an access hole with no luck: The large dent in the hood where I was told someone backed a pick-up into it couldn't be repaired with PDR. Looks like if I want the right fender and hood fixed. it'll be the old fashoned way: Shop's future Guard Dog Dakota: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94 olds vert Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 Looks great. That is such a clean car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3pt1lumina Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 PDR is excellent. I've had it done on 3 of my vehicles. As long as the person doing it is knowledgeable, it will come out great all of the time. Her GP is in great shape. Love that color! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRZN Posted March 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 Agreed. The place I took it to has been in business for 31 years and the guy doing the actual repair had been doing PDR for 17 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94 olds vert Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 I'm curious how did this run you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
95cutlass Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 That is a very cool color on the the car, I also love how clean it is!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRZN Posted March 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 I'm curious how did this run you? $370 +6% PA sales tax. They charge per panel and not per dent: I think $95/panel and $200 for the hood. He cut me a break because I had my wifes car in earlier that day to have a few pulled from her car and to do an insurance repair to the windshield. The windshield chip turned into a crack which will now cost me my $100 deductable rather than nothing for the repair. He felt bad that it broke and treated me more than fair. Hard at work on the wifes car: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94 olds vert Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 $95Panel doesn't seem to bad. I'll have to look into what the going rate is in my area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3pt1lumina Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 That's about what it is here too. When I was working at the Pontiac dealer in the body shop I got to know the dent puller real well, he did my cars for $100 / car, but it was cash money so it worked out well for the both of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AL Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 I got charged 10 per dent at my dealership when I worked there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRZN Posted March 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 $10/dent? Wifes car had five dents pulled and took 3 hours: About a half hour wasted on the windshield but the rest on the dents. Two took quite a bit of time while the other three were fixed quickly. I paid $265 on her car. At $10/dent someone wouldn't be in business too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AL Posted March 23, 2012 Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 It was a side job and it took him less than 10 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gp1991 Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Your daughter is one lucky girl, that car is gorgeous. If i had more money, i would love to make my car this nice looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cully77 Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 I had PDR on my 98 and it worked great! I had 2 or 3 dents repaired and the only one he couldn't fix completely was an outtie that someone managed to do via massive door-flying havoc. bastards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel87 Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Impressive work! Is this an incorporated business, or a stand alone shop? I have a couple door dings I wouldn't mind getting rid of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOT2B GM Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Wow, great results. I need to have this done on ALL of my W's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake91 Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 car looks great. when i came in this thread i was thinking "i wonder how much this cost as i need some dents removed". then it dawned on me that i actually have a car with out a dent for once, and dont need this lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuminaPower92 Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Holy Crap dude. My work is right down the street from there. Also we use them for all our cars, matter of fact my vert will be done by them soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRZN Posted March 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Impressive work! Is this an incorporated business, or a stand alone shop? I have a couple door dings I wouldn't mind getting rid of. Stand alone shop as far as I can tell: Carisma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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