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My brother told me to use a hair dryer on a dent in my car door
He swore he saw it on a video, so I tried it on my old Civic for about twenty minutes. It didn't do a thing except make the paint really hot, and now I'm worried I messed it up. Has anyone actually had this trick work, or was he just pulling my leg?
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tylerw9213h ago
That whole "life hack" thing feels like a trap sometimes. People see a 30 second clip of something working once and treat it like a fix for everything. It reminds me of the "put a dented bumper in hot water" myth. Those tricks only work on very specific plastic parts, not metal doors. You probably just heated up the paint and the glue under it, which isn't great. A real dent puller kit is like twenty bucks and actually works on metal.
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the_luna10h ago
Completely agree with you about those quick fix videos. They create this false hope that complex problems have magic solutions. Watched a neighbor try the boiling water trick on a car door last summer and it just made the paint crackle. Sometimes the right tool for the job is just the right tool, not a kitchen hack.
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amymartinez8h ago
Remember that video about using a potato to pull out a small dent? A buddy of mine actually tried that on his fender. He ended up with a rust spot shaped like an Idaho russet a few months later. @the_luna is right, these shortcuts just set you up for a worse problem down the line. Watching him explain the potato sap and metal thing to his wife was honestly the best part of the whole mess.
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