Oh ~ my ~ God.... :O
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:11 pm
I was driving in North Van the other week and was making a left turn at a traffic intersection. The light had turned amber and I was about to clear the junction when I saw a small white car accelerating into the amber light, so I stopped my turn. As he was passing me I resumed my turn, at which point he stopped abruptly in the middle of the intersection. I don't know why as there was nothing in front of him for another thirty odd feet and he could have easily cleared the junction. I braked as he was still inside my turn. I looked into my mirror and could see that we were touching but I hadn't felt or heard anything. At this point he drove off (I suspect he didn't feel anything, either). I drove to where I was going to, which was right around the corner and getting out I wondered if I had received a scratch and would have to cut polish it out ~ so I had a look. I was dumb struck. The bottom part of my sliding door had collapsed in. I was in shock.
I started looking for prices for body work and they all ranged from $1,200.00 to $1,600.00, which included lots of bondo and a paint job. The next thing I did was start looking into repairing it myself. I did manage to pull the collapsed area out but it was still all dented up. The body shops had all told me that the metal had been stretched and would have to be heated up with a torch and hammered back (which would destroy the paint job, of course). When I took the rocker panel off I could see that where the metal was bulging in the upper part of the dented area it was compensated in the lower part and that it wasn't stretched, just displaced.
I was talking to Butch at CVI who had a look at the panel and told me about this guy who performed magic tricks and that I should really talk to him, which is the reason for this post:
No bondo. No painting. Three hours. $450.00.
His name is Jose, the name of his company is P.D.R. Systems Inc. (Paintless Dent Removal). His phone number is (604)-803 0477 and he will come to you.
Jose is amazing and if you need a repair done to your van I would not hesitate for a nano second to recommend him.
Falco.
I started looking for prices for body work and they all ranged from $1,200.00 to $1,600.00, which included lots of bondo and a paint job. The next thing I did was start looking into repairing it myself. I did manage to pull the collapsed area out but it was still all dented up. The body shops had all told me that the metal had been stretched and would have to be heated up with a torch and hammered back (which would destroy the paint job, of course). When I took the rocker panel off I could see that where the metal was bulging in the upper part of the dented area it was compensated in the lower part and that it wasn't stretched, just displaced.
I was talking to Butch at CVI who had a look at the panel and told me about this guy who performed magic tricks and that I should really talk to him, which is the reason for this post:
No bondo. No painting. Three hours. $450.00.
His name is Jose, the name of his company is P.D.R. Systems Inc. (Paintless Dent Removal). His phone number is (604)-803 0477 and he will come to you.
Jose is amazing and if you need a repair done to your van I would not hesitate for a nano second to recommend him.
Falco.
but I hope it put more light on the issue.