My first dent
09-19-2008, 11:01 AM
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My beautiful 2004, 525i was just christen by a baseball (hit foul) during my son's game yesterday. I was wondering if anyone within the New York, Long Island area have anyone they could recommend. I have heard of these paint less dent removal places. Just wondering anyone's experience with this method pro's and con's. Thanks in advance.
09-19-2008, 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Alex 525i' post='673377' date='Sep 20 2008, 04:01 AM
My beautiful 2004, 525i was just christen by a baseball (hit foul) during my son's game yesterday. I was wondering if anyone within the New York, Long Island area have anyone they could recommend. I have heard of these paint less dent removal places. Just wondering anyone's experience with this method pro's and con's. Thanks in advance.
09-19-2008, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Alex 525i' post='673377' date='Sep 19 2008, 02:01 PM
My beautiful 2004, 525i was just christen by a baseball (hit foul) during my son's game yesterday. I was wondering if anyone within the New York, Long Island area have anyone they could recommend. I have heard of these paint less dent removal places. Just wondering anyone's experience with this method pro's and con's. Thanks in advance.
I live in Texas so I can't recommend any place near you obviously. But to ease your worries, I had a dent put on my car while parked at work a few weeks after i bought it. I brought it to a paintless dent removal place and they did wonders. Even after the technician pointed out the area of damage I still couldn't tell where it was at. Not every dent can be fixed, mainly the "creased" ones the guy told me. But if yours was hit with a baseball I would imagine its a fixable dent. Good luck with it.
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Originally Posted by Alex 525i' post='673377' date='Sep 19 2008, 02:01 PM
My beautiful 2004, 525i was just christen by a baseball (hit foul) during my son's game yesterday. I was wondering if anyone within the New York, Long Island area have anyone they could recommend. I have heard of these paint less dent removal places. Just wondering anyone's experience with this method pro's and con's. Thanks in advance.
09-19-2008, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by seoulman' post='673383' date='Sep 19 2008, 03:06 PM
How big is the dent? Any paint damage?
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Originally Posted by Alex 525i' post='673377' date='Sep 19 2008, 03:01 PM
My beautiful 2004, 525i was just christen by a baseball (hit foul) during my son's game yesterday. I was wondering if anyone within the New York, Long Island area have anyone they could recommend. I have heard of these paint less dent removal places. Just wondering anyone's experience with this method pro's and con's. Thanks in advance.
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Originally Posted by CWS530' post='673391' date='Sep 20 2008, 04:13 AM
Sorry to hear about that. So long as there is no paint damage, and the dent is fairly "uniform" (if that makes sense), then PDR is the best way to go.
The PDR guys if they are good, can get it back to about 99.99%~ Good luck!
09-19-2008, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Alex 525i' post='673393' date='Sep 19 2008, 08:14 PM
The dent is not that big. It's about the size of half a dollar. There is no paint damage.
Half dollar???............... Is that the same size as a ?1 coin? I'm in the UK. 
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Originally Posted by *AL*' post='673406' date='Sep 19 2008, 02:21 PM
Half dollar???............... Is that the same size as a ?1 coin? I'm in the UK.