Got the PDR tools today. Comments: Kit is reasonably complete, I'll also need some alcohol (empty spray bottle included in kit), a glass protector panel to slip inside doors to keep the picks from scratching the glass, a heat gun for warming the paint in sharp creases, some longer picks in the 30-45" range to reach the bottoms of doors, and it would be handy to have an airbag door spreader in addition to the plastic door wedge. The kits on AliExpress have instruction booklets, this one does not. Plenty of instruction materials on Youtube and I can always buy a DIY book or two.
Space is limited in the tool bag, but you can cram all the non-pick tools in it and get it zipped shut if you try hard enough. I even managed to get the LED line board and a USB wall plug in there. Has a few pockets in the sides to hold the glue tabs, knockdown punches, hand puller etc. If you use the bag you'll find yourself digging for whatever is in the bottom of the pile in the bag. Everything appears to be cheap but serviceable, except the pick tools aren't polished to a mirror finish and the flat bladed picks have a milled texture on the sides almost like they're files. Not only would the milled picks take the paint off the inside the panel, I bet they'd emboss their texture in thin fenders and it would show through the paint. It'll take some grinding/sanding/buffing before I'd dare use those things. I haven't tried the LED line board so I don't know if it'll stick solidly to a car or not, and I suspect the lighting is inadequate. Maybe I should have bought a set with an unlit reflecting line board instead. I guess you get what you pay for. Chinese PDR picks usually run around $10ea when you buy a set, and I don't know if they're any better than the ones in this kit. I got ten picks included in a $125 kit, the nonpick items basically duplicate the $90 sets on AliExpress, and similar sets of ten picks run $70-100. > On October 9, 2017 at 12:02 AM Mitch Haley via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > http://www.ebay.com/itm/262977911935 _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
