eclou

I was cleaning out my garage the other weekend and re-stacked some of my track tires. I inadvertently stacked them too high near the garage door rails and one evening when I went to open the garage door the top tire was knocked off the stack and fell directly onto my 993tt passenger rear fender. It was like a slow-motion nightmare, as my eyes tracked the tire as it fell full force onto the car from a height of near 7'. I screamed internally and felt nauseous, ready to vomit. The dent was the size of my face, and depressed about 2-3 inches!

I happened to have some hobbyist body tools, so I used a suction cup to pull the bulk of the dent out. There was however 2-3 dimples left and some light scuffs from the old track rubber.

I took the car to a highly recommended dent/detail specialist in Houston, Chris Gilbert (713 882 4055). Chris had fixed some minor door dings on various cars of mine in the past, but nothing like this. I went to him with modest expectations, and was mentally prepared to accept some residual defects.

Chris went to work quickly and was able to access the panel just forward of the muffler. He did not need to remove the wheel and was able to slip the tools over the fender liner. It took him about 20 minutes to massage out all of the irregularities in the curved panel as I watched. It was almost like watching someone "photoshop" out the defects. After that he used some buffing compound and eliminated all the scuffs in a couple of light passes with an orbital polisher.

I cannot give a higher recommendation for Chris, and am extremely satisfied!

Land Jet

You lucked out for sure.

texas911

My worst nightmare too, self inflicted door ding! Glad it turned out good for you. I'll keep his number incase I need him. Does he drill holes to get at the door ding or does he remove panels?

eclou

most door dings he can get to by the window seal. I think there are just a few areas he needs to make a small drill hole, but he has made his own custom tools for hi end cars to avoid that whenever possible

TT Gasman

Good for you Gene, a dent specialist is worth his weight in gold.

RJFabCab

You a lucky man, bro!

Skilled dent specialists are amazing... with tools straight out of Mission Impossible.

E55AMG

Glad it worked out. LMAO at your avatar!! Priceless!

Edgy01

Glad to hear you were SAVED! A buddy of mine did something like that to his Porsche many years ago. But it was an acetylene tank that fell against the rear quarter panel. He worked out the mess himself--well before the days of the paintless dent removal guys!