Just had my local PDR man round to fix the hailstorm damage on my Mondeo. I'd counted about 100 dents, he reckoned on maybe twice that many.
End result: magnificent. If you look, really, really hard you can *almost* see one or two very slight imperfections in the surface. That's it. It's as close to perfect as it'll ever be.
I'm really chuffed. And the price was cheaper than my insurance excess too.
For anyone in my part of the world interested (North Worcestershire), try Richard's PDR. Nice chap and did a brilliant job for me. He's ex-Rover, having learnt PDR on the Rover production line, so has loads of experience.
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Obviously a good guy and I'm glad you got the dents sorted.
A bit worrying that so many new Rovers were coming off the production line with dents!
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Modern car factories build cars with Robots.
Rover built cars with Roberts, "Bob pass the hammer / spnner / strike manual!
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To be fair to Rover, as it was explained to me (or I understood it!), the steel pressings slowly detoriated and errors could be introduced. By the time they were spotted, up to several hundred cars could be affected and needed correcting.
Also, he reckoned on about 3,000 points along the assembly line someone would attach something to the car (inside or outside), so inevitably things got bashed and scraped along the way sometimes.
It'd be interesting to find out if other manufacturers have PDR guys on their production lines though.
Either way, thanks to all that practice, he was *very* quick at removing all those dents and still managed to do a great job!
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I was helping fit a radio in a new Fiat 127. Routing the aerial lead we found a hole in the floor you could nearly get your hand through. It would appear some large, foreign object was in the press when the floor section went in. it had then been painted, undesealed and sold to the customer.
I never did find out how it was resolved.
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It'd be interesting to find out if other manufacturers have PDR guys on their production lines though.
Most have rubber mats to fit over the front wings to avoid dents when inserting engine etc...
Rover did not in the 1970s : I saw a completed Mini Clubman which had the rear subframe on one side 6cms out of alignment and hence not bolted to the rear bulkhead.
Says a lot about QC that it went through Body in White , Paint, Trim and Assembly and the body fault was never picked up.
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>> Says a lot about QC that it went through Body in White , Paint, Trim
>> and Assembly and the body fault was never picked up.
Reminds me of the story about the finished 60's Vauxhall that had a front disc brake one side and a drum brake on the other side.
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>> A bit worrying that so many new Rovers were coming off the production line with
>> dents!
Friend of mine used to work in a body repair shop.
He lost count the amount of brand new cars that were put through the shop for minor dents, scuffs, orange peal paintwork, etc before the buying customer took delivery of their brand new car.
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Saw a prog on Discovery about the Maserati factory, where they make the current coupe. The amount of fettling required, even after the paint had been applied, had to be seen to be believed. The true meaning of 'hand-built' seems to be 'botched'.
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