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RE: paintless dent removal

To: "'Allendorfer, Mike'" <mwa96imp@regionofdoom.com>,
Subject: RE: paintless dent removal
From: "Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto}" <PETER.THANA@ROCHE.COM>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:56:20 -0800
I'm all for getting good prices, but if Jerry and I keep our appointments
with Brad on Monday, we're going to pay a lot more than you guys eventually
do on the group day!

Seriously, do you really want something set up?  I will call him about it,
but I need to have a reasonably firm date, location, and a reasonable
estimation of the number of clients he can have.  Do you guys all actually
have dents you want to get fixed, or is it just the idea that intrigues
you?:):)

Let me know and I can suggest it to him and try to set something up.

Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: Allendorfer, Mike [mailto:mwa96imp@regionofdoom.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:48 PM
To: Kelly, Katie; BA-AUTOX@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: paintless dent removal


That's actually a brilliant idea that has been done more than once.  The
Impala clubs will invite selected dent guys to gatherings such as car shows
and club picnics to do their thing.  Good prices, convenient and the guy
makes a mint.
Mike Allendorfer
96 Impala
89 Honda Civic SI

----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly, Katie <kkelly@spss.com>
To: <BA-AUTOX@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:57 PM
Subject: RE: paintless dent removal


> That is almost a brilliant idea! He'd make a mint!
>
> Peter, you're talking to him first. Why don't you suggest it? Let's hope
he's not a huge football fan, though.
>
> Katie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Merritt [mailto:CMerritt@luminous.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:55 PM
> To: Kelly, Katie; Craig Haggart, SSRL Accelerator Ops Group;
> BA-AUTOX@autox.team.net; PETER.THANA@ROCHE.COM
> Subject: RE: paintless dent removal
>
>
> Give him a call and ask him to come to Boondoggle!  I can just see it now,
> him walking up and down grid with his nifty tools, or volunteering to help
> Tech while pointing out all those nasty dents that he could just pop out
> right quick while you wait...
>
> -Carl
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kelly, Katie [mailto:kkelly@spss.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:40 PM
> > To: Craig Haggart, SSRL Accelerator Ops Group;
> > BA-AUTOX@autox.team.net;
> > PETER.THANA@ROCHE.COM
> > Subject: RE: paintless dent removal
> >
> >
> > Okay, I live in the North Bay, so what do I do? I want to
> > call this Brad guy, too!
> >
> > Katie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Craig Haggart, SSRL Accelerator Ops Group
> > [mailto:haggart@SLAC.Stanford.EDU]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 3:38 PM
> > To: BA-AUTOX@AUTOX.TEAM.NET; Kelly, Katie; PETER.THANA@ROCHE.COM
> > Subject: Re: paintless dent removal
> >
> >
> >    > Just how large was this dent? I was told my dent, which
> >    > doesn't seem that large to me, is too large for DentPro.
> >
> > The dent was easily 6" high by maybe 4" wide, which I had assumed
> > was much too large for DentPro-type operations.  I'd heard that
> > they could generally only pull dents about the size of a quarter.
> > When I went to a body shop to get an estimate, they told me that
> > I needed an appointment first -- yes, an appointment to get an
> > estimate! -- but as I was walking out, the front-desk person
> > mentioned that I might want to talk to the guy in the parking lot
> > with the white truck.  It turned out to be Brad.  He took one
> > look at my large dent and correctly concluded that he could pop
> > out the panel and treat the resulting small dents as if they were
> > door dings.  That's what comes from experience, I guess!
> >
> > By the way, Brad quoted me $125 to fix just that dent.  Doing
> > additional work on the same panel is only about $35 more, so I
> > asked him to give me a quote on doing the whole car: the big dent
> > in the rear quarter panel, a small dent on the same panel near
> > the passenger door, a standard parking-lot door ding on the
> > driver's side, a rock ding on the hood, and another tiny rock
> > ding on the front fender.  He said he'd do them all for $200.  I
> > couldn't refuse.   :)
> >
> > --
> > -Craig Haggart
> >  haggart@slac.stanford.edu
> >  Sunnyvale, California
> >  '96 Miata M Edition

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