
Paintless Dent Removal is a way to remove small sized dents without the need of repainting because it doesn’t disturb the color finish.
Such approach of dent removal is much cheaper than any traditional methods. It also takes less time to complete.
If your car suffer from hail dents, door dings, dents from baseballs, as well as other small sized dents, then this technique of paintless dent repair may work for you.
There are dents that can be removed completely so that the result looks no difference from the original shape at all.
However in most cases, the dent can be restored to 90% from its first shape. Although only 90% it is hardly noticeable and most automobile owners can accept the result.
However there are particular scenarios when the dent cannot be removed without creating damages to the paint finish.
So before you leave your vehicle to the repair specialist, it’s recommended to ask his/her opinion about the result to be expected from the dent removal process.
The repair process makes use of specially manufactured tools and methods.
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These procedures have been improved during recent years to handle larger dents.
What the repair technician actually does is pushing the metal back so that it pops out to its original form by using the special tool.
For certain dent conditions, the PDR (Paintless Dent Repair) is highly effective.
Such dent characteristics can be repaired effectively by applying this strategy:
- The dent location is a bit far from the edge of the panel.
- The paint is still intact meaning it hasn’t been cracked or broken.
- Dents or dings that are resulted from parking lot accidental hits.
- Hail damage.
There are various benefits of performing this approach of dent removal :
- No need to repainting or applying body filler.
- The value is much less than other conventional vehicle body repair services.
- The repair process is much quicker.
- Since no painting is involved you don’t have to handle with improper color matching risk.
The result of PDR highly depends on the skill and expertise level of the repair specialist. So if you determine to fix your dents in the auto body repair shop make sure you leave your auto to reliable professionals.
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