Ding-King

[rajp53]

It finally happened yesterday. After 13 months I received my first two
dings on my 04 Outback LTD. One ding is about the size of a quarter,
the other the size of a dime. No damage to the paint. Is it worth
purchasing and using the "Ding King" or a similiar product from
Simonize? Thanks for the advice.

 

[pheasant]

It finally happened yesterday. After 13 months I received my first two
dings on my 04 Outback LTD. One ding is about the size of a quarter,
the other the size of a dime. No damage to the paint. Is it worth
purchasing and using the "Ding King" or a similiar product from
Simonize? Thanks for the advice.

I tried it on a hail dent, ended up with a hill instead of a valley. Decided
I didn't want to practice again on a good piece of sheet metal as it looks
worse than the dent did. Most likely my technique, but not willing to risk
another boo boo so I figured it wasn't the worst 20 bucks I'd spent. At
least I got a hot melt glue gun out of the deal.

Mark

 

[mulder]

It finally happened yesterday. After 13 months I received my first two
dings on my 04 Outback LTD. One ding is about the size of a quarter,
the other the size of a dime. No damage to the paint. Is it worth
purchasing and using the "Ding King" or a similiar product from
Simonize? Thanks for the advice.

I'd suggest you forget the DIY gadget and look in your yellow pages
under "Paintless Dent Repair" and find your local Dent Doctor or Dent
Wizard. Take your car to a trained, qualified PDR specialist and have
it fixed right. If you try to do it yourself using the Ding King or a
similar device, you are just as likely to do further damage as fix
anything. What's worse, you can damage the panel enough so that what
would have been a simple PDR fix is now a full refinish-and-repaint
job at a body shop.

 

[the one and only]

I tried it out on a dark blue car. took a couple of trys but the ding
came out. Just a slight ripple when looking from an angle. Granted the
expensive dent removal guys work well, tried them also. But when your
selling the car to buy a Sube, what the heck.
mitch

 

[Cixcos]

It finally happened yesterday. After 13 months I received my first two
dings on my 04 Outback LTD. One ding is about the size of a quarter,
the other the size of a dime. No damage to the paint. Is it worth
purchasing and using the "Ding King" or a similiar product from
Simonize? Thanks for the advice.

My experience with Ding King was dissapointing. Perhaps my own fault for
trying something that sounds too good to be true. The result I obtained
after using it was the ding's depression turned into an outward
projecting pimple.

 

[lkreh]

It's just my opinion, but run, don't walk from those self-help dent
removal products. They will only make it much worse. As someone
suggested, spend the money on professional paintless dent removal.
Dent Wizard can be scheduled through my Subaru dealer (they visit the
dealer regularly and make appointments through the dealer). It's well
worth the ~$30/dent. We've had a couple of door dings and Dent Wizard
removed them so there's no sign they were ever there. Btw, I'm not
pushing Dent Wizard in particular. There are plenty of other
professionals that do paintless dent removal.

-LK

 

[the one and only]

Cixcos wrote:
The result I obtained

after using it was the ding's depression turned into an outward
projecting pimple.

Hi,
The guy I used works on high end sports cars (ferrari etc). He WANTED a
upward dimple and then he took a body work hammer and a stainless rod.
He placed the rod behind the dimple and tapped the dimple till it was
flat. Looked great but at 65 bucks a dent, it was a little "pricy".
mitch

 

[Gilles Gour]

Cixcos wrote:
The result I obtained



Hi,
The guy I used works on high end sports cars (ferrari etc). He WANTED a
upward dimple and then he took a body work hammer and a stainless rod.
He placed the rod behind the dimple and tapped the dimple till it was
flat. Looked great but at 65 bucks a dent, it was a little "pricy".
mitch

And this does'nt chip or crack the paint?