7 Best Car Dent Removal Tools

Buying Dent-Removal Tools

No one likes to see a dent in their otherwise pristine vehicle, but unfortunately, sometimes those car dents can’t be avoided.

Dent-removal tools are readily available online, and when used with a skillful hand, they can help restore minor dings and dents to near perfect. You don’t need previous dent-repair experience to use these tools, but success does require plenty of patience and gentle movement.

Become familiar with the different dent removal tools before you start shopping. Designs and features vary, but they fall into one of three categories:

• Pulling Style: A suction cup or plastic pulling tab is stuck to the dented metal vehicle body, then gently pulled on until the dent disappears.
• Hammer/Tapping Style: Best for small dents, tool involves tapping a specially shaped punch with a smaller hammer, slightly to one side of the dented area. The idea is to “pop” the dent back out from the side.
• Rod Style: Some dents are much easier to remove by pushing on them from underneath rather than pulling them out from above. Rod style dent removal tools involve sliding long steel rods under or behind the dented vehicle panel, then carefully pushing them against the dent from underneath to push the compressed metal back out.

Here are additional considerations:

• Dent size, shape and location. For pulling-style dent removal tools, the size, shape and location of the dent determines the size of pulling tab you’ll attach (with hot melt glue) to the vehicle’s body panel. Pulling tabs should fit snugly within the dent for best results.
• Body material. Most vehicle bodies are made of either steel or aluminum. Steel is heavier and harder to bend, so you’ll use dent-removal tools with plenty of gripping power. You can get away with lighter adhesion if you’re working with aluminum.
• Tool cost and versatility. If your vehicle has several dents of different sizes and shapes, go with a full-featured dent pulling kit with plenty of different pull tabs. If you’ve just got one or two small dents and don’t anticipate more, a simpler tool with less attachments can work.
• Your personal level of patience and finesse. Dent removal isn’t a job you can rush or power through with enthusiasm alone. If you don’t consider yourself a careful, patient person, this is probably a job best left to a professional.

Keep reading for eight of our favorite dent removal tools and what makes each stand out.

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