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[YZ250]

What's the best way of removing small dents that can't be knocked out from the inside? I believe there is a product that consists of suction pads. I understand these can be used to "pull out" dents from the outside.....

Any ideas, please...

My son does unbroken paint dent repair as his job. He has a variety of tools which range from short bars, long bars, thin bars, thick bars, flat bars, plastic hammers and slide hammer and hot glue bits. On top of this he has the lights (to highlight the bad area) and loads of dressing tools and releasing solvent. He is really fussy with the end result but I've never fully watched him as he hates being watched while he works. An example of the hot glue/slide hammer tools shown below. Different size pad for each size of dent. Sharp dents are the worst to hide.

As already said, mis-use of these tools or weak paint can result in scorched paint.



Regards
Alan

[Lazydocker]

I just called a local smart repair guy... He did a deep scratch, a little scratch and a ding on SWMBO's Panda, 2 scratches and 4/5 dings on the Omega. He was here just under 5 hours and charged me £280

Money well spent IMHO... You can't see where he was working

[kettle]

Be carefull on smart repairs had some vandel scratches done other year after a while paint all lifted like a skin had to take to a bodyshop for repair they informed me wrong type of paint used causing a reaction also said they have to redo a lot of these smart repairs as they dont really know what they are doingended up costing me twice and a lot of inconvenience so be carefull firm i used was a well known firm and only as good as bloke doing job warrenty waste of time they informed me must of been caused by me  what a suprise.

[Olympia5776]

Depending on the extent of the damage ,if they are small dings I'd definatly go for the dent removal guys everytime.
I've used them on the Omega and my wifes Freelander a few times because of ignorant careless cretins over here who think we all drive old Massey Ferguson tractors and don't GAF.   
The two guys I used both here and in UK were absolutley amazing and frankly there was virtually no area that they couldn't get to on both these cars.
Not cheap when quoting but I asked them to do the cars when and where it suited them and they charged pocket money.
Here's one on the FL which was difficult to get access to, the paint was broken but I carefully filled the paint defect with paint and lacquer and then compounded with 1500 paper . I had one the same on the Omega but can't find the photo. Both now impossible to detect.

[CaptainZok]

He usually staggers off to bed under his own steam, I'm sure Greg would help him if necessary.