Electromagnetic dent remover
The unit was supplied in a Peli type box that was divided into sections designed to hold the unit, the tip, induction feed lead and power lead. The power lead supplied is a kettle/PC type with a EU plug. This is easy to swap using a lead with a UK plug. The unit feels well built and has a feel of quality.
Both the power and pulse time are adjustable. Under power, the unit bleeps every few minutes, but the volume can be turned down or off. I suspect that the purpose of the bleep is to warn the user that the unit is on.
Let’s start by saying that I bought this with some scepticism that the claims and online videos of the effectiveness of this technique was true.
With a bit of spare cash in my pocket and with a few dents scattered over two cars, I thought I would invest in this tool to see if I could avoid spending the same, or possibly more at a body shop. I thought to myself that if it didn’t work, or caused some damage, I would not make anything worse that would lead to an increase in the body shop cost I was trying to avoid.
With some limitations, it did work and I am pleased with my purchase.
Some preliminary online research indicated that it was best suited to ‘soft’ dents, ie, those with no sharp depressions. Both these types were present on my cars.
My first go at a practice run to test the tool was to tackle three ‘soft’ dents on door panels. Two of these appeared to have been caused by either a shopping trolley or another car door and were anout 1cm in diameter. I set the power at 50% and timer at 1 second. Then, following what I read online, I pulsed the tip, each time moving it stepwise around the dent, but not on it. The panel could be seen to shrink as the dent lifted. I used a damp cloth between each pulse to cool the surface of the body panel. One dent disappeared and the other became barely visible. I may come back to try and pull out the remaining dent with this tool, but I suspect it may respond better to the use of a glue PDR kit.
The third ‘soft’ dent was again on a door panel, but this time across a contour line and about 3 cm in length and 2cm wide. Using the same technique as before, I was able to lift most of the dent, but a small indentation remained on the tip of the contour line. I suspect that this would need to be lifted using a glue PDR kit or manipulated from the back of the panel whilst using the tool.
The last dent I worked on was a ‘sharp’ one, about 3cm in diameter, possibly caused by a flying stone which had broken through the paintwork. I managed to reduce the diameter to about 2cm, but the sharp indentation remained.
In conclusion, on my first attempt I managed to improve the appearance of each dent, with the best improvement being on a flat panel. I am confident that with some practice it will be an useful and effective tool, especially when complemented by using other dent removal techniques. I spent less than a minute working on each dent, so I was impressed by how quick the tool lifted each one without damaging the paintwork.
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