Kit includes:

1 Dent Dynamics Slide Hammer

1 Dent Dynamics Twin-Tip Knockdown

10 Olympian™ #1 tabs

10 Olympian™ #2 tabs

10 Olympian™ #3 tabs

10 Olympian™ #4 tabs

10 Olympian™ #5 tabs

5 Titan™ #1 Flat Top Tabs

5 Titan™ #2 Flat Top Tabs

5 Titan™ #3 Crease Tabs

5 Titan™ #4 Crease Tabs

5 Titan™ #5 Flat Top Tabs

5 Titan™ #6 Dome Top Tabs

30 Black Glue Sticks

Come see Dent Dynamics at the Charleston Auto Expo on September 25th at Omar Shrine Temple. We will have a booth and be doing live demos of paintless dent removal.

Charleston, SC — The Charleston Auto Expo will be held at the Omar Shrine Temple on Sunday, September 25th, from 12 until 5 PM, in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. The Charleston Auto Expo will showcase the top local and Southeast automotive specialists, presenting the latest advances in the automotive care and specialty products industries as well as conducting live demos, sharing product knowledge and offering giveaways! Proceeds from the auto show will benefit the Dillon Frisbie Foundation.

Live demos will include: 3M Clear Bra Protection, Wheel Repair, Upholstery Repair, Paintless Dent Repair, Car Audio, Vinyl Wraps, Headlight Restoration, Window Tinting, Detailing, Paint Touch-up, and more.

Admission is $5.00 which includes a free goodie bag and automatic entry in all day drawings for thousands of dollars in free products and services. Rare cars, and Darius Rucker’s West Coast Custom USC Gamecock Karminn Ghia will be on display. In addition, attendees will enjoy continuous live music outdoors; Low Country BBQ and tacos provided by the Taco Boy Food Truck. The car show will also include a family fun corner, featuring our Car’s jump castle and a cotton candy station.

“This is a consumer expo show that will not only showcase products & vendors, but sponsors will be selling services and merchandise! The Charleston Auto Expo is a place for all car enthusiasts to learn about unique auto care services and products and meet other car clubs/groups and auto enthusiasts,” says John Ritenour, the auto show organizer.

For more information on the event and the Charity it benefits, the Dillon Frisbie Foundation visit: www.CharlestonAutoExpo.com

Paintless Dent Removal is the preferred method of repairing hail damage.  For more information, please visit our Hail Damage page.

Noticing a ton of you dent guys (including myself)  carrying two knockdown tools to support two different tips, I started thinking about all the time I have wasted over the past 18 years switching knockdowns.  I personally prefer having two totally different tips – one sharp tip for picking out the minute stuff and one very wide tip for knocking down larger smiles and crowns.  This new tool is both of those combined into one.

The shape of this tool is what makes it work so well.  If you think of it as the letter “X” it will make sense.  You use your hammer on the opposing end from the tip.  This allows you to quickly and effortlessly change the tip you are hitting by simply changing the angle you are holding the tool.

This tool will really improve your blending skills.  Where I have seen the biggest gain in efficiency is on hail damaged roof rails.

I will say there is about a 20 minute learning curve with this tool.  You have to actually think about it for just a second before you hit.  Probably like the first time you picked up a single tip knockdown.  But, once you get it, you get it!  It becomes second nature and you will be switching tips without even thinking about it.

Anthony Spencer
Owner
Dent Dynamics

I recently had this installed on my personal car by Pleasant Details (www.pleasantdetails.com).

They are located in Mount Pleasant and did an amazing job.

We decided to shoot some video of the install and this is the result.

The Lowcountry Miata Club hosted the event for a second time.  The first event was in 2008. They are a really passionate group of people.   Twice a year, once in the Spring and once in the Fall, they have their Tech Day events.  During these events I go and spend the whole day removing dents that their prized Miatas have accumulated.  These people love their cars and are a fun bunch.

Miatas Doin' The Charleston 2008 Event

One thing people need to be made aware of in South Carolina is that law states you can have your vehicle repaired at your choice of repair facilities. Insurance companies will sometimes make you think you have to go where they tell you for the repair. This is referred to as steering. People should be weary of any insurance company requiring you to go to their back-pocket-deal preferred vendor.  The choice is yours to make.  Not the insurance company’s. By law, in South Carolina, the insurance company cannot tell you who to take your vehicle to for hail repair.

For more information, visit our Hail Damage FAQ page.

I really feel that there needs to be education for the body shop industry to inform them of what is possible with paintless dent removal. The amount of time savings that PDR can save is quite substantial. Let’s take, for example, this van. If this van was to go the traditional route for repair it would go something like this: Customer would drop off van at body shop and get rental car for a few days. Next the body shop would sand the paint off the dent, weld some studs in the dent’s center, pull the dent out, grind off the studs, fill in the rest of the remaining dent with bondo, sand that down smooth, spray on the primer, spray on the paint, then spray on the clear coat. Time elapsed: a few days.

Now let’s look at how I fixed it:

When I arrived at this appointment the owner said he was trying to avoid taking it to a body shop because they wanted something like $1,500 to fix it. They said that that was the only way to do this repair and that paintless dent removal wouldn’t be an option on this one. In all honesty, this was a nasty dent and I knew it would be a tough one. I told the owner I was pretty sure it would come out but I wouldn’t know until I had spent a little time on it. So, he went back in his office to get some work done and I went to work. I removed the taillight was able to get tooling up under the backside of the dent and massaged it out. Time elapsed: 2 hours.

I am not advocating that every dent out there can be fixed using paintless dent removal. What I am saying is that there are too many cars out there getting repaired by being repainted when there is another option. Painting a car is sometimes unavoidable but it should be avoided at all costs is possible.