anyone use paintless dent repair on their model 3?

[austinmichaeld]

So I came out of my local grocery store yesterday to find two large carts had sailed into the side of my pride and joy leaving a button size ding in my drivers side back door. considering the wind and the weight of the carts, it could have been way worse. its a dime size shallow dent. no scratch at all.

Has anyone used paintless dent repair with any success on their model 3 or other tesla? I found a local place in austin that charges $75 for such a dent. which is nothing for the piece of mind to know my baby is whole again.

Thoughts

 

[Mister.T]

I was spraying tire shine on my tires after a car wash and slipped on the ice (a few months ago obviously). I still had the can in my hand so my first reaction was to make sure the can was far away from the car. I ended up putting a nice sized dent on the rear door with my elbow! Forget tennis elbow, I had just invented the "Tesla elbow."

Dad jokes aside, PDR fixed it up perfectly! They had to take the interior door panel off but you can't even tell the car was previously dented at all. YMMV depending on the tech...
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[Bill Foster]

All depends on how good the PDR guy is. Ive seen terrible repairs and I've seen ones where you would never even know.

 

[Thomas Edison]

It’s amazing what an experienced dent remover can do. But the aluminum is much harder to work with.

 

[bluhorshue]

This is my S getting a dent fixed. Its a long video, so you can just look at the beginning and end. $75 is really good. Happy with the work and would recommend. Only thing I didn't like is that he was using some polish to clean the panel for his tools to stick, so I had to wax my car again.

 

[edigest]

Your local service center should be able to recommend somebody.

My M3 was delivered with a golfball-sized dent in the rear fender. Fenders are welded on so no replacement possible. Tesla sent someone out to fix at my residence. Took an hour or so -- perfect result.

 

[aspec818]

Yup my 1 week old Tesla got two dents parking in the streets of SF. They were both reworked with PDR and came out looking like new.