today we're working on what might be the
unluckiest Camry in America this year is
1999 Toyota Camry and we picked this up
from the auction a few years ago and
it's been a daily and backup car for
Boyan and when we picked it up from the
auction it had a damaged rear bumper
somebody a bunted sat in the corner and
over the past I don't know maybe three
years it's been hit in the same spot
another three times so we replaced the
bumper multiple times and just last week
we put the newest went on and a couple
of days ago somebody bumped into him in
the parking lot and as you can see here
they put quite a hefty dent and
unfortunately they ran off so we don't
know who did it so we're just going to
try to attempt a few low-cost repairs
and see if we can pull this huge dent
out and see if we can do it on a low
budget so we've picked up a few tools to
try this out the internet favorite seems
to be the blow dryer and compressed air
trick so we're going to try that first
you also picked up a couple of low-cost
tools from Harbor Freight including a
suction dent puller that was about four
bucks and a crossbar dent repair kit
that was about 11 bucks with the coupon
so we'll try all of these out and see
what we can do so what we're going to do
most of these directions say is to heat
up the area where the dent is for a
couple of minutes then take some
compressed air and basically turn it
upside down to put ultra cool air at it
and it should pop so let's give that a
try we've gotten the deepest part of the
dent pretty hot so we're going to go
ahead and spray it with some compressed
air upside down and see what happens
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unfortunately that did not really do
anything which we kind of anticipated
just because this is pretty thick metal
because it's kind of structural because
this is a unibody car so we're going to
go ahead and warm it up again but this
time we're going to move to the harbor
frieght four dollar plunger and see if
we can put it pull it out while it's
heated up since we sprayed the area it's
gotten a little damp so we're going to
go ahead and wipe it down before we
proceed to the next step and go ahead
and try to heat it up again and use the
plunger all right so boy I was going to
keep getting it from inside the truck
and I'm going to go ahead and do the
first plunge here
okay that made a little bit of movement
but not a whole lot let's try again
so we've been able to pull it out a bit
but because we can't get a good feel
down here where this crack is what we're
going to do is heat it from the outside
and actually push the deepest part out
from the inside and try to get it
straight alright so we've gotten it a
little push from the inside and we're
going to give it a couple more pushes
then we'll go back to the plunger for
some finish work
and this time around I'm actually going
to get in the car and just try to give
it a little push with my foot all right
let's see what we've accomplished and
where we need to put some more pressure
so we've gotten it out decently well
there's still a few low spots so we're
going to try to push some more of that
out and get it straight
especially here and a few more places to
get the lines back right so we're going
to do a little more heating and a little
more pulling and we may use the bridge
puller turn up for some finish work to
get it perfect so we got the glue gun
the cane in the harbor Freight kit and
we let it warm up took about three or
four minutes to warm up so we're going
to go ahead and take some of the bridge
full of pieces out here and start to get
this going to take just a bit of acetone
and just kind of brush it all around
this area where we're going to put our
bridge puller and go ahead and close
that off and then it says basically just
to wipe the area too quickly and now
we're going to look kind of for the
center of our debt and attach the puller
brush too
so we got the puller and it's got a few
angled pieces just make sure it's clean
because whatever it pushes in will push
right into your paint and now we've got
the pulling piece here and we just got
it set on a chisel here so doesn't get
glue all over the nice epoxy floor so
now I'm going to lay it on thick
right in the middle of the vent put the
glue gun down and then go ahead and
stick this in and hold it for just a bit
and now we're going to let it dry for a
couple of minutes just so it gets nice
nice good fit on to the ident and then
we're going to go ahead and start
knotting our bridge pulley here okay so
we're going to go ahead and slide our
bridge on and give it a nice angle there
so it's got some good grip on the
surface and start screwing it on all
right and now we're just going to thread
it in slowly and watch it pull up the
dead and as I'm threading this end I can
see the panel moving out and I can feel
a decent amount of resistance starting
to build up as it's pulling it out
and now we've gotten kind of to the end
and it's actually done quite a decent
job of pulling it up so this lower area
here is now fairly even so we're going
to move over to the next step beside it
and repeat the same procedure so I made
a mistake on the last one it kind of
started pulling too soon so on this one
actually let it dry for about four
minutes just so it could get a little
bit of a better grip so we're not
repeating this process over and over so
I'm going to go ahead and tighten it
down and try to pull this one out and it
actually did a quite a decently good job
of pulling on it now I just need to do
probably one more pull here and this
bottom line will be restored
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all right so now we're going to do some
finishing work on this top area here we
have a very small low spot here and a
bit of a high spot beside it and I
believe that they should even each other
out once we start pulling on that one so
we've used all of the tools we've picked
up and as you can see we've made
considerable progress so the panel now
is about at about 95% we still probably
have how to say maybe 15 or even 20
pulls to get all the small dents out and
I'm sure we won't get it a hundred
percent but it'll be pretty close for
the cost involved and about two hours we
spent so far it's actually worked pretty
well the plunger kind of helped us out
in the beginning and we were able to get
maybe one or two pulls where it actually
did something and then the area was -
waiting for it to pick up but for three
dollars and 49 cents it's what worth it
the hairdryer and compressed air trick
there's pretty much nothing it pops a
little bit but the dent was too big or
maybe our blow dryer wasn't hot enough
or something like that which we didn't
really do anything so it was kind of
worthless the star of our repair is this
set here which we picked up for about 11
bucks with the 20% off Harbor Freight
coupon and we've been using that for the
past hour and it's actually done a
really good job the only thing to watch
out for is the glue gun make sure that
you put it on something that won't burn
and watch your hands and fingers and
when you're putting it on it's not
really regulated so the 10
richer kind of goes up and down it stays
liquid always for you to put it on but
sometimes it will get really liquid and
start dripping off other than that you
have two scientists so you want to make
it useful on removing the glue is a bit
of a pain but it can be done and the
tool they give you for punching down
kind of the high spots in the surface is
actually useful we've used it to restore
this body line here mostly because of a
crease that was created from the hip and
that's basically what we're going to do
down here if you've had a panel retain
it you have to be careful that you don't
clean your paint off look we had some
pulled out here other than that the glue
is perfectly safe where we were going to
call this about a 90% success and keep
working on this doing some more pulls to
get it fully evened out probably touch
up the stain a little bit and I think
they're all good processes except for
the compressed air and I think it should
be a job well done for 11 and 4 for
about $15 total so please remember to
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