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Old Apr 16, 2019 | 09:23 PM
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Big body dent pointers?

So I’m pretty new to the body work. I have done well getting out small dings and dents with a hammer and dolly. I have my door that has a large dent as if the whole panel was pushed in. How would I go about pushing it back out? Without the obvious answer of pushing it out. It just springs back to the dented position.
 
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Old Apr 17, 2019 | 11:03 AM
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What is happening is called oil canning. Check out this video.
 
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Old Apr 18, 2019 | 04:52 PM
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What happened to the door? Did something hit it, or did it "hook" on the fender??

Can't even begin to recommend a repair method without knowing more, so don't start shrinking anything just yet

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