Fixing a ding

[Jeff120]

Washing my car yesterday I find a small ding/dent in the middle of the roof, about the size of a nickel and fairly shallow. I assume one of the neighbor kids bounced a ball off of it.
Before going to a paintless dent repair person I was thinking of trying a DIY method. Ive seen the dry ice and the hairdryer followed by compressed air. Has anyone had any success with this? What is the potential for damaging the surface?

[weavers]

I have had no sucess with ths. I have tried on steel doors, fiberglass and whatever my current car is made out off. Maybe I am not getting it hot enough, or cooling it fast enough. Or its the wrong type of dent, i dunno. you could try those glue+suction cup

These ones are on ebay for pretty cheap. I hear body shops charge 50-100 bucks per pannel. They care about the number of dents. I would talk to a body shop
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[shoeless89]

I would say any of your mentioned methods would have a pretty good chance of damaging the paint. I personally wouldn't do any of them. I would just find a PDR person and have them do it for ~$100. Rather then runing the whole panel and having to have it repainted.

[dougaross]

I had a couple of small dents in one panel repaired using PDR. Came out perfect. I could not tell where the work was done. $100

[shoeless89]

Some PDR guys are AMAZING. Sigh, I want to learn how to do it!

[soccer05]

Which PDR company did you use for $100?

[opie_7afe]

the dent remover that has the 2 cups and the glue on studs do work, when they first came out i tried it just for kicks (im a doubting person regardless) and to my surprise it worked great for smaller dents, about dime to quarter sized it worked for, pdr techs do use the same method just using a different tool and stronger glues....don't hurt to give it a try, and the method using dry ice and a hair dryer don't work....