Paintless Dent Repair (PDR), also known as “Paintless Dent Removal”, is an innovative dent repair process.
By using specially designed tools that work from behind a vehicle’s metal panels to manipulate and flex the panel back to its original form — without damaging the vehicle’s factory finish.
Additionally, glue and a specially designed tab may be used from the outside of the panel to pull the dents out. This unique process takes only a few minutes, so dent repairs are performed easily and conveniently.
Paintless Dent Repair can be used on both aluminum and steel panels.
PDR does not require the need for any sanding, painting, or body fillers, so vehicles retain their value and shine.
A wide range of damage can be repaired using PDR.
The PDR process can repair dents, dings, creases, and hail damage with much less expense and inconvenience than other traditional auto repair methods.
What are benefits of PDR?
Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) helps to keep your vehicle in its original condition, and therefore, retain its original value.
Since PDR does not use the extensive, intrusive methods of dent repair commonly found in the auto body repair industry, your damage can be repaired quickly. Depending on the number of dents, you could have your vehicle repaired within a few minutes to an hour.
Your vehicle maintains its original OEM paint and you don’t have to worry about paint not matching or blending other body panels. Without the need for sanding, painting, or body fillers, in most cases, the PDR repair process can be completed for a fraction of the cost compared to conventional body work and panel replacement.
What about risks?
An untrained individual can damage a dent if attempting a repair without the correct skills and knowledge. Limiting factors for a successful repair using PDR also include the flexibility of the paint, and the amount the metal has been stretched by the damage incurred. Hence, often extremely sharp dents and creases may not be repairable - at least not without painting afterwards.
How long does it take?
Damage can be repaired quickly. However, extensive damage, which is common during severe hail storms, may require a few hours to repair.
What alternatives do I have?
A wide range of damage can be repaired using PDR; however, usually if there is paint damage, PDR may be unsuitable. In this case, conventional body work as well as panel replacement must be utilized.
There are many factors that come into play when pricing paintless dent repair. Factors that affect the cost of paintless dent removal are location and depth of dent, conditions of the paint in the dented area, supports and braces behind the dent and electronics, etc.
While repairing minor dents, door dings, creases is usually inexpensive, there are other benefits from paintless dent repair that must be considered. Most important of which is restoring and retaining the value of your vehicle. Second, the cost is usually less than traditional body shop repairs. Last but not least, the time is significantly less than a traditional body shop.
Important: Hail damage pricing is completely different than that of the minor dent and ding pricing. Hail damage pricing uses a matrix provided to the industry by insurance companies and varies considerably in cost. Hail damage pricing is based on the number of dents, size, depth, location, etc. per panel. The cost can vary for a complete vehicle repair and is usually 30-40% less than traditional body repair and saves the value of your vehicle, and cuts the repair time by weeks, getting you back in your vehicle faster.
Also, remember that auto hail damage falls under the comprehensive side of your insurance policy. It is considered uncontrollable and an “Act of God” and therefore does not affect your insurance rates for filing a claim. In some cases, not repairing a vehicle with hail damage can cause major issues later on from a repair standpoint, but it also leaves you liable to your lien holder and can cost thousands if you trade-in for another vehicle.
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