The dent comes out. The paint stays on. No filler, no sanding, no repaint, and nothing on your vehicle history saying a panel was refinished. For most dings and most hail, it is simply the better repair.
No repaint
Every panel on your car left the factory with paint applied and cured under conditions no body shop can reproduce. It is thinner, harder and more uniform than anything sprayed afterward. Once that finish is sanded off, it is gone.
Paintless dent repair works the metal from behind with rods and picks, reading the panel through a reflection board, moving the low spot back a fraction at a time until the lines run straight again. The finish is never touched. That means:
Door dings are the easy case: a single shallow dent, usually on a door skin, usually an hour or two. Bring it by and we will often do it while you wait.
Hail is volume work. The individual dents are shallow but there can be two hundred of them across the horizontal panels. It is slower, it is priced by panel and dent count, and it is almost always an insurance claim. That is covered on the hail repair page.
Creases are the hard case. A long dent that runs across a body line has stretched the metal, and stretched metal fights back. Some creases come out clean with PDR. Some come out ninety percent and still need a skim and a blend. We will tell you which one yours is after we look at it, not after we have started.
This is the part most shops leave off their website. PDR is not right for every dent, and pretending otherwise costs you money.
When one of these is the case, we say so and quote the conventional repair instead. That work happens in the same building.
A reflection board across the surface shows exactly where the metal is low and how far.
Behind the panel, through a window channel or a factory opening, without cutting anything.
Small, repeated pushes from behind. The dent comes up gradually, never in one shot.
Back to the board. When the reflection runs straight, the panel is straight. That is the test.
Before
After
BeforeAfterPDR is a technique that massages dents out from behind the panel instead of filling and repainting them. Your factory paint stays intact, which protects both the finish and your resale value. It is the right method for most hail damage, door dings, and shallow creases where the paint is not broken.
A couple of door dings is often an hour or two while you wait. A hail-damaged panel takes longer, and a full vehicle after a storm can run a few days. We give you a real timeline at the evaluation rather than a hopeful one.
Almost always, because there is no filler, no paint materials, and no booth time. It is also faster, and it does not put a repainted panel on your vehicle history.
No. PDR moves the metal back to its original shape rather than covering the low spot. Once it is right it stays right, and our workmanship carries a lifetime warranty for as long as you own the vehicle.
Not with PDR alone. Once paint is broken the panel needs conventional repair and refinishing, or the bare metal will corrode. We will tell you that up front rather than pulling the dent and leaving you with a paint problem.
Two hundred dents instead of two, plus the insurance claim. Free walk-in evaluation.
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