Came back to my old shop after 9 years, found my dent puller trick still on the board
Nobody writes down the good stuff anymore, it's all on phones that get wiped. I had a fender on a 2012 Civic with a crease exactly where the brace sits and went back to the heated slide hammer method I learned in 2016, worked first try. Anybody else got a trick they thought died but still pulls its weight?
My 2014 F150 had the same issue and I wasted a whole afternoon chasing it with a regular puller before I gave up and used the old heat trick. That stuff gets buried under newer methods but it still works fine. Guess some things just don't need upgrading.