{"id":1576,"date":"2016-01-23T17:07:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T17:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2016-01-23T17:07:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T17:07:57","slug":"budget-dent-repair-heat-air-claybar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/diy\/budget-dent-repair-heat-air-claybar\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Dent Repair: Heat, Air, &#038; Claybar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The High School Parking Lot. Ah, the Horror. The Horror. Since dents and dings are inevitable in this crucible of parking trial-and-error, it&#8217;s best not to get worked up over dents and dings until graduation. There are some hints that will help get you through.<br \/>\nTake for example this trifecta: scrape, dent and cracked paint. The most serious aspect is actually the cracked paint. If left untreated, the fender will rust making for a much more expensive repair later on. The easiest to fix is the scrape since it&#8217;s on the surface. Just use the Claybar with some Speed-shine and elbow grease.<br \/>\nDent removal is the area of experimentation for this post. We wanted to see how far we could get with just a heat-gun and compressed air. The result was actually pretty good, especially considering that complex curves are especially challenging for any paintless dent-repair technique. We removed the plastic fender liner, and then used a 1000 watt heat gun alternately with a can of compressed air held upside-down. Heat the area slowly and quickly quench with the cold liquid spray. We did this combo about five times, reducing the size of the dent by about two-thirds. Once we were satisfied (ran out of beer) we decided to flake off the cracked paint, sand the gash a bit, then hit it with some primer and touch-up paint. It&#8217;s good at 20 feet and I&#8217;m sure not the last time we&#8217;ll be doing this.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/After.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/After-1024x518.jpg\" alt=\"After\" width=\"1024\" height=\"518\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High School Parking Lot. Ah, the Horror. The Horror. Since dents and dings are inevitable in this crucible of parking trial-and-error, it&#8217;s best not to get worked up over dents and dings until graduation. There are some hints that will help get you through. Take for example this trifecta: scrape, dent and cracked paint. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/diy\/budget-dent-repair-heat-air-claybar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Budget Dent Repair: Heat, Air, &#038; Claybar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[142,196],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","category-vw","tag-heatgun","tag-paintless-dent-repair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}