Can I pop out this dent?
 

Recently my car suffered a hit and run and got a pretty good sized dent in the rear bumper. My insurance deductible is way to high to be worth paying.

I've heard of people popping out dents with a heat gun. I've also heard of people using a hair dryer and CO2.

I'm kind of afraid the dent might be too big though. Any thoughts?

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if you have a garage, use a hear dryer to heat up the dent and try pushing from the inside. if you cannot access with the bumper on the car, try taking it off

thats my opinion, i dont have experience w/ body work

You'll have to take the bumper off

most-to-all bumpers require the removal of tail-lights and trunk carpet molding to get to all of the screws.

Once off, take the bumper inside and place on a cushioned carpet, heat with hair dryer moving in circles, do NOT keep it in one place - then with either a baseball bat or something similar, wrap a towel around the end and put pressure to pop out CAREFULLY!

i do not take responsibility for the end results - this is the method I have used for my rear bumper and worked for me, but may not work for you -

Thanks for the advice guys.

I was looking through the vacation pics and found instructions on how to remove the rear bumper so I will most likely try your method galanthole.

You might be able to make it better, but it won't be perfect. That would be replaced if a body shop was to do an insurance repair.

The dent is extremely noticable in the daylight. As long as I can make it not as noticable I'll be happy. It doesn't have to be perfect.

I'm going to attempt to fix it this weekend. I'll post pics of what the end result is.

Yep, use a heat gun and take your time.

I took the rear bumper off late Friday night. Took a blow dryer to it and some muscle, this is what I came up with.
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It's barely noticeable. I was relieved at how easy it was to fix it.

Nice man,glad it worked out so well.

doesn't even look like there was an accident...

Glad it worked. I've seen some come back, but with stress in the paint.

Unless you know what you're looking for, it's not even noticeable.

Great result :)

looks way better than i was expecting to see.

nice job.

Absolutely great work - glad it turned out so well. Rear bumper cover corner dents are the most common; it's amazing what people will spend to remove them or replace when all they have to do is spend a couple man hours on removing, fixing, putting back on.


Again, great job there.