Do you have dents on your Logan? I do! I park mine in heavily populated area, where we "fight" for each parking spot, so, cars are parked very tight and when someone opens the door to enter his car - it is very likely that it will make a dent on your car Logan (and Renaults in general) seems to have very thin metal that is very prone to dents... But, have a look at this link: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=removing+dents This post has been edited by Sloba: 17 May 2007, 11:41

Hey good
But does it realy work
Stu

Watch out. The solution with dry ice may lead to damaged paint. In fact, if this method is applied on the paint of your Logan, i'm pretty sure that your car will need to be re-painted. Not the thin metal is the biggest issue of this car, but the paint could win the "Biggest problem of Logan".

O - M - G !!!!

Why didn't I think of that?!?

I've got one question though... What is the equivalent for airduster in romanian please? My guess is that's some kind of high pressure spray used to clean keyboards for example. Am I right?

Than again, it's simply brilliant! I'm almost wishin' to get a dent on my car!
NOT

It is I suppose the same as the gas bottles that you can fit on the Horns that they take to football games

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Stu

What a clever piece of bush-craft!!

It works on the principle of metal contracting under extremely low temperatures, but applied only to a limited area. So, what you need is compressed CO2 (carbon-dioxide), which when released from that pressure turns into solid state, lowering temperature to around -80C. Therefore, read carefully labels on the spray cans, they are useful only if they contain CO2! Another candidate would be liquid nitrogen, but it is much harder to find, and its temperature is a lot lower, so it is more dangerous for the paint!

And regarding damaged paint job... This procedure is only a bonus, if it works – great, you saved some money, and if not, then it was the job for the professionals anyway...

Where can I find a CO2 spray in Romania?

IN A CO2 Shop
Stu

sorry mate could not resist that one

Thank you.
Does anyone have another answer for me? Praktiker/Bricostore maybe?

You have 2 likely sources of compressed CO2.
Fire extinguishers are the most likely, but they might be too costly to be abused for such purpose.
The other one is cooling or duster spray cans that can be found in the electronics parts and tools stores, although duster sprays may contain only common compressed air, which is useless for this purpose.

You would definitely have to look carefully at the labels on the spray cans anyway.

This post has been edited by g100sic: 21 May 2007, 00:27

I don't have dents on my car but I do have some paint marks most likely from the same reason: someone touched my car when he/she opened the door. Any advice for this issue ?

I've seen some kind of dusting spray in METRO. It was in the notebook aile. The next time I'll read the label in search of it's CO2 content

This post has been edited by Muttley: 21 May 2007, 15:56

I don't think it is, but I'll take a look. I found CO2 sprays at Adelaida. When I'll need something from them maybe I'll order one.

Bought it!
192 RON in Metro. A friend of mine has just bumped a door on his Logan. How convenient!!!
These days we'll try it out. But we're still short of one hair dryer and a socket to put it in

If you spent 192 RON on CO2, then i think you can easily buy a small generator and then you will solve the socket problem.

Did you explained the drawbacks of this method? Is your friend aware of these?


..geez..are you serious?

Damn, I never learn! 19.2 RONs...

What drawback? There's no drawback at all. Just a little spray and you get a brand new car, even better than when it came out of the factory, because the body will become more stretched.

Seriousely, he saw the movie and he can hardly wait to try it.

PS: did I mentioned that he has CASCO??? So nev'mind those drawbacks of yours, they're free of charge.

This post has been edited by Muttley: 28 May 2007, 10:02

Send us photographs of before and after if you can !
We are all waiting for your Test results
Stu

..and organize them nicely...BEFORE and AFTER.

News flash...

This friend of mine asked me to buy him the CO2 can. He told me on the phone that he had a crash, and as a result he was left with a broken door.

A few hours ago I've first saw the "big damage". And where I was expecting to see a ruined door was only a small dent on the middle horizontal line of the car. It looks as if a bigger mosquito had a head-on collision with his door. It's almost unnoticeable... And because of that middle rib I'm afraid that our procedure won't do him any good. Still, he's eager to try it. And as I won't be there when he'll attempt the quick fix, I will ask him to take some pictures for you guys.

Sorry for the "bad" news

In this case, we do not accept pictures anymore, but instead we accept videos. Under this conditions we will accept your mistake not to be present when the experiment will be made....

Another "latest info"

It's not the dent I've seen. It's another one, under the trim of the right front door, a long nice dent. I haven't noticed it because the car was dirty .He has rubbed his Logan against the rear bumper of a parked car, a small Daewoo Tico.

If all goes well, I hope you'll get your pictures (/movie), in about a week or so.