Fender dent removal

[TimbyMaTombo]

Hey everyone...
so my dad in his infinite wisdom dropped his motorcycle on my passenger fender leaving a nice dent right above the wheel well and I was wondering how difficult it would be to remove the fender and hammer it back into shape. There is no crease in the dent so I was figuring I could do it if I found the proper tools to do so. I'd really rather not have to buy a new fender even though my current one could use a repaint, but I'd rather just fix it for free.

If possible, what should I use to ease it back into shape?

Here's pictures.

[Garageaholic]

I think that what you're referring to is more general automotive body repair. In which case, you'd remove the fender and bang the dent out from the back. Removing these fenders are not difficult at all. However, try to get it as smooth as you can. If you're lucky, crafty, and good with auto finishing hammers/dollies, you can bang that out to an almost pre-existing state. That's probably your best and cheapest bet. If you go bondo, you need to repaint and if you repaint, you might as well spend LESS money on a replacement used black fender because they don't go for alot of bones.

[TimbyMaTombo]

Well, I have close to know automotive experience but I do a lot of reading and researching and it doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult to hammer it back out of I get the proper hammer and use a delicate touch. I wouldn't want to do bondo over it, then I might as well just replace it. I just figured that since the dent doesn't have a crease or anything, it could easily be hammered out. Should I post this is the general cosmetics section?

[Buzztt]

Ask dad to pay the $100 for a PDR guy, if you don't know what you are doing you could end up costing yourself more than that

[TimbyMaTombo]

I'm not exactly sure that would go over too well with my father....

[TimbyMaTombo]

If I try it myself and don't get the results I'd like, I could just replace it with a different black one. I would like to learn how to do it myself regardless, so I may go that route and learn as I go...

[Vivek]

If you do end up doing it, post the results and process. There's a very shallow but kinda large (in my opinion, it's smaller than yours for sure) dent on my quarter panel that's very easily accessible, but I'm apprehensive about trying to bang it out myself.

[AndrewBird]

The only tip I will give you is don't hit the metal very hard. Only enough to shape it like you want. It is very easy to over do it and stretch the metal too far.

Judging from the pictures, the metal is already stretched past it's normal state, meaning you will have a hard time getting it back flat. It will always be slightly dented in or out.

And you will have to repaint if you hit it with a hammer, fyi.

[idanity]

you can do it...

it will take a thousand tiny hammer strikes, but it can be done.
patience, and slow, do it in good light and reflection. like above, don't over do it.

talk to some old school body guys that hammer out dings on ultra rare cars...its not easy, but nothing rewarding ever is.

if you can master this skill, you can write your own ticket.