Dry Ice is like 1.50 a pound here in KC and i will trying in on my fenders while there are off and let you guys know.



~Luke

 

cool, finally some real tests!

Can you take pics with that?

 

sorry guys, over the weekend i punched soemthings and broke a couple bones in each of my hands. I'll think i'll start twitching after 6 weeks of not working on my car.

 

That's why you need to use a fistpack! I have the same problem - to this day I have a bone fragment causing random pain in my knuckle.. You're better off doing pushups when you get mad.

 

3 or 4 years back my dad used a block of dry ice on our honda accord after a huge *** rock got chucked onto the freeway and bashed in the left front fender. This wasn't exactly a dent, more like a small cave-in. Was prolly 6 inches diameter and about (but no deeper than) 3/4 inch deep.

He used dry ice to pull up most of it, he just took a block of it and held it up against the entire dent for a while and just let it keep poping. It wasn't perfect but he got it down to mostly dings and small dents at which point he used body filler on.



The guys that are saying it doesn't work, probably didn't leave it on long enough, on our dent my dad was messing with it for about 5-6 hours.



He spent a whole $5 on the ice and got way more than he needed, but we got it from a factory that just has loads of it instead of a welding shop or body shop.



Dustin

 

not to flame or anything, but your story doesnt make any

sense?



why spend 5-6 hours holding ice up against a body panel when

he ended up using body filler in the end ?



He could have spent about 5-6 minutes with a stud gun and

then used his filler.



I can see if the end result required no filler or painting, but to

hold ice up then end up grinding, fairing, taping, masking

priming and painting anyhow seems a bit silly. In your last sentence

you say you got the ice from a factory instead of a welding

or body shop, did you mean instead of taking the car to a body

shop or did you mean buying dry ice from a body shop?

Body/welding shops dont sell dry ice, and who did the

body work and paint?

 

My dad has told me that you can get dry ice from body shops (or atleast thats what I thought I heard him say), but maybe he is wrong, I've never seen him goto a body shop in my life, he's to cheap and rather fix it himself or just leave it it be.



The damage to the car was to small to warrant spending the money to pay anyone to do the work was just cosmetic anyway. He used the dry ice first to hopefully fix it the cheap and easy way, and failed. He just heard the trick worked and thought he would give it a shot, he's not pro body guy or anything like that. So he ended up just getting the shape of the fender back (not sure how, I personally know very little about body work), and then painting it. I'd bet he didn't even use any special paint, he's cheap like that.

 

oh, so your story was saying that the dry ice failed

 

sorta, it didn't work perfectly. My dad feels it was a success, it pulled a lot if the dent out, but he thinks the dent was just to big for the ice to handle.