We love a superb detailing or dry-ice blasting video, however neither kind of before-and-after transformation can maintain a candle to footage of a paintless dent restore grasp in motion. Watching a dent wizard therapeutic massage a physique panel again to well being when standard knowledge says the one repair is a completely new part of metallic and hours of prep and paint time, by no means ceases to amaze us.

This video exhibiting Matt “Dent Slayer” Boyette working his magic on a crunched Rivian R1T is an ideal working example. The proprietor transported his EV 600 miles (970 km) to Boyette’s All Out Paintless Dent Removing store in Jacksonville, Florida, after being quoted a stunning $41,000 to restore a dent within the rear quarter panel of the inexperienced truck.

Boyette says that the excessive quote was a results of the quarter panel stretching proper by to the entrance of the automotive, and the unique quote factoring within the elimination of the panoramic roof and even the battery, although as one commenter suggests, it sounds just like the store might need provide you with a excessive value as a result of they didn’t need to tackle what they guessed may be a nightmare job. Both manner, the price of doing all that, then becoming a brand new panel earlier than portray the lot wouldn’t have merely been a monetary one for the R1T‘s proprietor. He would have been going through a number of weeks with out his truck. However Boyette and his group had it fastened in simply two days.

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The video exhibits the group attacking the Rivian’s rear quarter with a mix of glue pulls, rods, and hammers, and it doesn’t take lengthy earlier than the quarter has regained its fundamental unique form. However it nonetheless appears like a mottled mess that’s lined in high- and low spots needing main consideration. That is the place the actual magic occurs and Boyette says in his narration that it was made in particular sophisticated by entry to the again of the panel being restricted to 1 small gap on the backside.

However the completed job is so good it nearly appears like new. Boyette freely admits that there are a few tiny imperfections, one being a small chip and the opposite a tiny dent that couldn’t be teased out as a result of it was too near the sting. To be sincere, we struggled to see it on the video and we think about it’s the identical story within the metallic and most of the people would by no means guess it had been in an accident.

Boyette doesn’t disclose how a lot the Rivian proprietor paid for the restore, however because it solely took two days you already know it should have been a fraction of what he was quoted by a store for a standard repair, and this manner he received his truck again on the highway with out it having been pulled aside and put again collectively, which is a giant plus.