Vid: This is how to fix your car's dents with a GoPro
 

Vid: This is how to fix your car's dents with a GoPro

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By Zach BowmanRSS feed
Posted Nov 25th 2012 8:01PM

Body shops employ all kinds of sorcery when it comes to correcting crimes against sheetmetal. Their arsenal of tools is wide and varied and almost always includes a massive suction cup or two. You know, just like the powerful GoPro suction mount.

A skilled hand can apply the suction cup, give a swift yank and fix large, unsightly dents as if they were never there. Curious to apply the theory to your own bruised fender? You're in luck. The video below shows a handful of Kiwis getting crafty with a GoPro mount to fix the rear quarter on their Starlet GT.

Don't have a GoPro? Don't sweat it. Depending on the size and location of your ding, you can pull off the same trick with a little water and an old-school toilet plunger. The move has been saving teenagers from parents' wrath for years. Check out the clip below to see just how well the suction-cup bodywork fix turns out.

Haha, I'll have to give this a shot on my daily Taurus.

Nice job fellow Kiwis, haha.

Haha. I've done this before with my GPS mount lol. Works wonders!

Love MCM

good post though, very useful

Funny thing is that without reading this I tried this on my dented rear quarter panel and it helped a bit but my go pro suction cup is a little more loose. The metal on our quarter panel is tough aluminum and not the regular sheet metal. The pointless removal guys declined to help and I have no choice but to possibly do the bondo thing.