George from MD

I'm sick and could have shot myself. The car slipped off the jack and I have a healthy but not very creased dent in the right rocker panel right above the jack point itself. Does anyone know if a paintless dent pro can get in behind there? Most say they can't without even looking at the car.

I checked the pet and it isn't clear to me how close the reinforcing pieces are to the panel itself. It is in the rear fender portion of the rocker panel and not the panel itself. Any advice appreciated- I just don't want holes drilled in the panel to pull it out.

cbweaver1

Pictures? Not that you want to send your car all the way to Florida but if it can be done there is a guy down in florida that can do it. Maybe Orbit can forward them on to him.

paver

Does it look anything like this?

TRAKCAR

I did that
Did not look that bad, more like OP described. Cost me 1300 to fix..

paver

they must have known you are a 4.0 big money guy. I got a quote of $650.

George from MD

Lindsay it looks almost exactly like that- so it was body shop for you??

paver

Sickening isn't it?

I haven't done anything to it yet. I'm still foolishly hoping and praying there is some miraculously talented pdr guy out there somewhere that can pull it out...fat chance, but I can dream . I live in a small market, but the local guy couldn't do anything with it.

NJ-GT

Body shop.

No access to the inside of the rocker panel for Ding Doctor.

karmx7

I had the same thing happen so don't feel too bad. I had a leak in a new tire and wanted to get the car up so it didn't damage the sidewall. To get clearance I had to take the saddle off the jack to get it under the jackpoint (I normally have some small ramps I use to gain proper clearance) and was just about high enough to get the ramp under there when the jack slipped, the result was a bent rocker panel and a $900 fix.

The good news is that it's fixable and I'm be getting a proper AC jack after this lesson.....

Keith

TRAKCAR

It was the local Porsche bodyshop that repairs zero mile cars coming of the trailer at the dealer. I though it was rare but there were 3 there getting fixed!! Sold new. Scary!! I also had the rear deck painted as the trailer ramp slammed into it....

Spiffyjiff

george, try brandon wagenmann (240) 876-9964. he fixed a couple little dings for me last year and is very knowledgable about p-cars. (i think he sub's out for europros, etc.)

jpoint

1. Regarding lack of access to that panel, I saw a dent buster in the Chicago area working an Audi in a no access area - but he did have to drill a hole in the wheel well side of the panel to create access. The result was good and he put a plug in the hole.

2. I don't want to hijack this thread, but I'd like to ask permission from the posters with damage for permission to use these images as examples of what can happen when your car slips off a jack. Full disclosure - we'd be using them in the context of explaining how the pads for Jackpoint Jackstands prevent this from happening when used with a proper size floor jack. We saw this problem in early testing and redesigned the pads to prevent it.

3. On a separate note - Omega makes a couple nice floor jacks that have 2.5" pickup height - good for getting under lowered cars. They're heavy - but if you're looking at the AC - I suspect you're not planning to carry it around. The 29025 is a standard length lift arm and the 29023 is long like the AC. Omega manufactures the long shop jack sold by Matco and lots of other commercial jacks. The parent company owns Hein-Werner U.S. made jacks. Just FYI.

4. Paver - if your avatar was black and white it would look like a 997 had been shopped into an old Japanese horror movie ala "Them" or "Mothra".

karmx7

Your welcome to use that photo that I posted, you've created a cool product that can save others from suffering from a similar fate.

Keith

jpoint

Thank you.

paver

You can use mine too...no problem. BTW, that is a big spider. If you look real close there are some babies underneath it.