Please tell me someone's had a good experience with paintless dent removal??!!!

[schmidty]

The FG copped a flogging in the big storm we had in Perth a few weeks ago. No where near as bad as some. But it's 6 months old, with 17,000km on the clock, and now looks like the surface of a golf ball. Got probably 100 dents on the bonnet, roof, pillars and front guards.

It was assessed on Wednesday and they've decided to attempt the repair using Paintless Dent Removal. I was livid, as i get no say in this. They basically said it's paintless or bad luck. I had it out with the assessment manager at the center where my car was looked at. He said that if i was talking about the local paintless blokes in the phone book he'd agree. But reckons that they have brought these guys out from America, and that all they do is travel the world fixing hail damage and they're in a different league. They've got my ute booked in to be worked on for 5 days.

I use my ute for work, but it's immaculate and i plan on keeping it that way. I've never seen a "perfect" paintless dent repair. SGIO have said that they have to warrant the repairs for life, and if I'm not satisfied that i have every right to demand it to be re-repaired and done to my standard. Obviously they must have some sort of standard that they call "good enough" and i'll just have to lump it?

If it was a few dings, i'd consider it, but 100? And some are right on panel folds and edges.

Anyway, i've never seen a paintless dent repair that i'd rate higher than 95%. Just wanted to know the opinions of those who've had more exposure to this method of repair.

I'll put some pics up of the damage tomorrow.

Cheers

Schmidty