Paintless Dent Removal (PDR) Using the Harbor Freight Crossbar Dent Repair Kit

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⚠️ Note: There have been a few comments about getting this professionally done. Unless you've practiced this on some sheet metal or a beat up car and have gotten good at it, I agree that you should seek a professional to do the repair work to prevent any further damage such as stretching the metal by pulling it out too far.

How I removed most of large dent left behind from someone hitting my car with their truck door. This method essentially uses a crossbar tool and hot glue gun to pull a dent up. It is a time consuming process, but it only costs around $15 to do. It works well on simple dents, but it may not completely fix deep dents or ones where the metal is creased such as in my case. There are before and after pictures at the end of the video.

[vintagemotorcyclerepair]

Thanks for this, I'm here at HFT considering to get this kit for motorcycle fuel tank dent repairs, and this answered all my questions. Bonus points for doing it all one handed! 🥳

[porschmn]

I have the same kit and I made sure to clean the car area and the plastic piece you apply the glue to with denatured alcohol, I also use it to clean off the residual glue stick from the car and it works great to remove a dent, but it does take several attemps to get the dent mostly or completely out. If you clean things well the pop as the glue releases is loud.

[johnbednarz]

Works pretty good for a cheap tool, used it on my son's car after he hit a deer for the smaller dents.

[Chris-jydm]

Thanks for your video help I pulled a tiny bullet dent out last night used the same kit I’m left with a tiny crease now but much better. PS the bang was loud

[pcm]

As soon as he said, "...it pisses me off", I was in. Same scenario for me, thanks to some jerk at a home supply store. Looks like that kit did a pretty good job.

[apb]

If it took you that long to find the exact location of the dent you were just working on that I would consider that a very good fix for the money and time you spent on fixing it.

[ragazzi]

I bought this kit today from HF and it works pretty well but you must wait longer than 10 second before pulling the dent out! otherwise the glue does not stick to the paint very well..
Also It will take multiple attempts to fix a dented area..

[timmholl]

So, I tried this on my 2018 Tacoma on the rear side of the bed. It pulled the ding out all right, but it also left a mountain in its place. Caution to Toyota owners. The metal is very thin. To the body shop I got to get it professionally done. I should have listened to that little voice in the back of my head.

[taonow]

You can use a hot glue gun and a bottle, like a plastic coke bottle, put the glue on the cap then place it on the dent - let sit for a minute or two- screw in the bottle to the cap then slowly pull the bottle and it will pop - then pull off bottle and remove any residue from the glue

[koolpopjones]

Mines was with a runaway shopping cart 🛒. Gonna give this a try

[TheONEnONLY]

Thank you so much ima try this someone did the same thing to my truck From what I saw in the video you can tell a big time difference 90% difference

[chrisscott]

PDR pulls can take 3 to 4 hours to complete ..also tapping down the highs first before the actual pull helps alot and using a heat gun so you don't crack the paint

[constantdarkfog]

Good job, nice seeing a DYI tool that really works. This looks like a must have tool for any car owner, my cars hood was smacked by a small stone while driving this week, leaving a small dent. I'll for sure give it a try. Thanks

[Psche]

Man...this damn thing actually worked! Thanks!

[sislertx]

Im gonna use it on my mail box...thanks for showing..didnt know it exsisted

[davidhovik]

Thanks for the video this is exactly what i was looking for.

[buckminsterfullerene]

What are you talking about, The amount of time to do this procedure is nothing compared to repairing and painting the panel!

[danjenkins]

So useful thank you for posting this; my dent kit instructions were terrible so this was a huge help!! 👍

[styrenerodder]

What about a really deep dent in a Schwinn bicycle fender. The rear rack came down with weight and mashed it in. The fender is a compound bend, and the damage is really deep in medium large area.

[MJFUYT]

Super video explaining the process. And really nice work. Night and day difference. Looks like it never happened.