finally got my dented in fender fixed yesterday. i got estimates of $650-$700 and was ready to take it to a bodyshop where a friend works monday but at a party sat night another friend who works at a toyota dealership saw it and actually popped a majority of out with his hands!

he told me to bring it by his dealership yesterday and let this guy from a company called dent masters from richmond fix it. guy just had to drill a little hole inside the lip of the fender (which he plugged and silicone sealed) in the engine bay where the hood comes down to get inside the fender and push it out.

took him quite a while though cause apparently there's a brace that runs along the crease of the fender making the dented part hard to reach.

i forgot to ask but i'm assuming what he did is the paintless dent removal everyone was talking about in my previous post?

anyway looks perfect to me and only cost me $100, so now i've gotta decide what to do with this $570 insurance check

huge thanks to everyone who replied to my frist post with advice, helpful info, and condolences, really appreciate it here's the before n after pics

 

LOOKS GOOD

 

Those dent removers do excellent work.

 

looks perfect!

 

nice work, looks like nothing happened before.

 

put the other 650 into performance parts

 

Wow, that looks good. How'd that happen in the first place?

 

Not bad at all!

You gotta give credit to the techs on this one. That fender is one big compound curve witha nice crease along the way. Putting all that back into position can't be easy.

Congrats!

 

Looks good, I remember your other thread from when it happened. I said I didn't think PDR would work on that dent. I'm glad to see I was mistaken.

 

wow, how long did that take?