RABF250
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Paintless dent repair is the way to go. Nothing beats a factory paint job.
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How to make a grown man cry…
- Thread starter SXSBenzie
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Sorry about your truck, surprising the clear bra didn't dent. I need to get some of that on mineSorry to keep you guys waiting. Here is the Update:
The hood has probably 15-20 dimples in it, so it will need to be replaced. The only other place I can find any damage is on the roof between the windshield and sunroof. 2 small little dimples that you can feel with your hand, but can't see it unless you are looking up on top of the truck and moving back and forth. My guess is, I will leave those 2 there depending on how they want to fix it. No way I am letting a body shop replace the top of the truck for something that minor. Maybe they have a different way to take care of those, not sure.
I was definitely expecting the roof to look like the hood, glad that it didn't! Now the question is, why does the hood take so much damage and not the rest? Does ford use a lighter aluminum for the hood to save on weight? The clear bra on the front 12" of the hood did its job, no damage there. Now I wish I would have just covered the whole hood!
I will let everyone know what the body shop says about fixing the roof.
Here is a picture of the size of the hail.
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Cux211
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They can probably suction cup those few on the roofSorry to keep you guys waiting. Here is the Update:
The hood has probably 15-20 dimples in it, so it will need to be replaced. The only other place I can find any damage is on the roof between the windshield and sunroof. 2 small little dimples that you can feel with your hand, but can't see it unless you are looking up on top of the truck and moving back and forth. My guess is, I will leave those 2 there depending on how they want to fix it. No way I am letting a body shop replace the top of the truck for something that minor. Maybe they have a different way to take care of those, not sure.
I was definitely expecting the roof to look like the hood, glad that it didn't! Now the question is, why does the hood take so much damage and not the rest? Does ford use a lighter aluminum for the hood to save on weight? The clear bra on the front 12" of the hood did its job, no damage there. Now I wish I would have just covered the whole hood!
I will let everyone know what the body shop says about fixing the roof.
Here is a picture of the size of the hail.
View attachment 52224
dmitt29
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In a less-distant life, I did skin repair on aluminum skinned aircraft. What's most common while fixing dents on aluminum skins is something called "oil-canning" which is where the skin gets stretched thinner than the surrounding undamaged metal and in attempting to push it back into place, it really has nowhere to go causing a soft spot that flexes like the part of an oil can. This is most likely the only consequence of doing hail dent removal on the new Super Duties.The tricky thing about Aluminum is that it work-hardens when bent/dented. This work-hardening can make it very difficult to get back to exactly where it was as it gets more and more difficult to bend the more it is flexed back to where it was due to how the grain structure reorganizes. We've all experienced this - if you bend an aluminum flat bar 90 degrees and then try to bend it back - it just fails and you can clearly see the grain structure of the metal in the failure. How this plays out for dent removal I actually don't know - but it definitely plays a factor in their repair strategies. I imagine there are times where it's this reason why that it just makes more sense to flat-out replace panels.
AdvPhotog
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I live in north Texas and before the Tremor I watched my Raptor and Superduty Dually get beat by a hail storm. After that disaster I purchased this invention in the link below which has been a great investment for the Tremor protection. Takes me about 15 minutes to cover the truck and start inflating it. My neighbors thought I lost my mind until that first hail storm where my truck was the only outside vehicle with zero damage.
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