Paintless Dent Repair

["dmc1982" <dmc1982@xxxx>]

My DeLorean and my wife's Acura unfortunately received some hail damage last
year while I was in South Carolina. Several paintless dent repair came to
town. These are big companies who literally have teams of people that chase
storms all over the country. They repaired the Acura with no problem. It
was much worse than the DeLorean and you can not tell at all where the many
dents were (and I am very critical).
The three companies that I took the DeLorean to passed on trying to fix it.
Two of them said that the access to the dents was not good enough from the
back side and the fiberglass shell would inhibit their technique. The other
one said they had tried to repair one once and the stainless was not as
malleable as regular steel and they couldn't guarantee results. They all
also said that it would have to be regrained after being done as it would
probably distort and smooth the surface. The process is most effective on
cars with clear coat so they can buff out the final distortion.
If you haven't seen them do it they use a bunch of smoothing tools , mostly
homemade, and a lot of patience to gently rub and smooth the surface back
into the position it really wants to be in. As long as it is not stretched
or creased it will naturally return to the flat surface. It takes about 1/2
and hour for a dime size hail dent.
It is a great procedure on a "regular" car to avoid losing your factory
paint but the DeLorean is not something they normally deal with. Just
wouldn't want them to make a minor problem worse.

Most of the DeLorean dealers offer dent repair and they deal with stainless
all the time.


Cecil Longwisch

#10663