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Dan Schwarzkopf

Five Seasons Auto

319-396-8683

Dan Schwarzkopf is a Certified Auto Body Technician and supervisor with 5 Seasons Auto Body Repair in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has been with the company for nine years. Dan attended the Auto Body Collision program at Kirkwood Community College in the Fall of 1997. His dream vehicle to rebuild is a 1972 Dodge V100 pickup. He enjoys fishing for walleye and bass in his free time.

Dent Repair Using a Finger

Dan Schwarzkopf of Five Seasons Auto Repair, demonstrates how to remove dents from your car including a technique using your finger.

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Dan Schwarzkopf: My name is Dan Schwarzkopf. I work at 5 Seasons Auto Rebuilders in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I am going to be showing your today how to remove dents from your car without damaging the paint by using a backside of a hammer, a hard piece of wood, a hard piece of plastic or just with your fingertips. Let's get started. I located this dent right here, it is the easiest one to get to from the topside as well as the bottom side. I am trying to push the dent up working from the outside and towards the middle. Try work the dent out, just using my fingers here. I am feeling the dent with my fingers, I am trying to place my right hand over the dent, so I can make sure that the things are lined up. As I am pushing out on that outside end, I am going to be working on the dent from the outside to the middle. I am just moving my hands around the outside of it. So I am trying to make -- see where the metals is going to be moving the most at, so I want to proceed very slowly. I don't want to pop -- going here and just pop the dent out. I will cost too much damage to the metal, I would fatigue it, and you definitely do not want because you have an oil can effect which makes it go pop in and out all by its own. I can't get down with my fingers on the back side, so I am going to go ahead and use a piece of wood, the backside of a hammer. I am going to be using a curve side, not the edge. If I use the edge, I am going to put a crease in the metal, that will cause more damage. And once again, I need to locate the dent. Just slightly pushing up with the hammer, just like to locate it. Right now I am on the backside of the dent right here, I am moving the hammer around in a circular motion on the backside, working this backside of the dent. I can tell that I am not getting the dent out on that. Getting out the dent out just using the backside of the hammer. Once again, I am starting from the outside, working my way into the middle. My hands are on the backside, so I could feel where the hammer is going and almost applying pressure downwards. So I can try and remove -- work that metal around back into position. And unfortunately, I cannot do it because the metal is just way too stiff for me to do. So I am going to move into the next step which is the PDR kit where you can buy in your local home center, over the internet, TV and I will be showing you that step next.

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