Questions You Should Ask Before Hiring A PDR Professional
If you’re not savvy when it comes to vehicles, getting a ding or dent repair can come with numerous questions. This is especially essential if you’re getting dent repairs for the first time. You may not know how long it’ll take, its cost, and the results you should expect. Asking questions is one of the ways to learn. It’ll help you gain insights and stay calm anytime you hire a PDR professional. Here are the questions you’ll need to ask your technician before you get started.
Will the Paintless Dent Removal Completely Fix the Damage?
Paintless dent removal is most effective because it uses minimally invasive methods to eliminate minor dings and dents. In most instances, there will be no sign of damage, while in others, the dent will be barely visible. The chances are that your PDR technician will give you a reasonable idea of what you should expect based on your situation.
How Long Will the Paintless Dent Repair Take?
The paintless dent repair is minimally invasive and shouldn’t take too long. When handled by a professional, the systematic process will take at least two hours. In some instances, you can get back on the wheel the same day you drop your vehicle for the repair. However, it’s essential to ask your technician this question. This is because your car may have adverse dents that would require much more time.
Can Paintless Dent Repair Fix Serious Dents?
PDR is effective in numerous ways, but it might not be the best choice for repairing large dents. Besides, it’s designed to repair dings and dents, not severe damages to the body or frame. However, you can still contact your technician, who’ll help you figure out the best solution that will be best for larger dents.
Is the Company I’m Considering Well-Established and With Good Reputation?
Paintless dent is typically art, and you should hire a certified technician who handles it like an art. Working with a company that isn’t well-established can lead to more damages, which can be costly. Always go for a company that has established a good reputation by offering high-quality repairs. The company that you’re hiring should provide you with a list of references as well as before and after pictures of the jobs they’ve handled. The technicians should also point you to independent testimonials, reviews, and ratings.
Will My Insurance Cover for Paintless Dent Repair?
In most cases, the insurance will work for paintless dent repairs, especially for hail repair. It’s not only a recognized repair method but also a required repair method. However, it’s important to contact your service provider to know if they accept insurance to cover all the costs.
How Much Will the Paintless Dent Repair Cost?
This is the most commonly asked question for PDR technicians. The cost of paintless dent repair will depend on various factors. They include: how big or small the dent is the sort of metal that your car has the number of dents, and the methods that’ll be used to repair the dents. A good technician will provide you with a reasonable estimate and explain how they’ve determined the cost. They should also help you understand why the cost is accurate and how they’ll perform the repairs. If a PDR technician can’t answer your question, then avoid them like the plague.
What Are Some of The Benefits of Paintless Dent Repair?
One of the best things about PDR is its quality. It’s non-invasive and doesn’t cause any disturbance to the original manufacturer’s paint. Their cost is another benefit. It’s typically cheaper, unlike the conventional dent repairs. Time-saving is yet another significant benefit of PDR. You can get the dents fixed in at least two to three hours. It’s also an eco-friendly method. This is because it doesn’t require the use of toxins that are used in other conventional dent repair methods.
Are the Technicians at Your Company Well-Trained?
This is one of the most essential questions you should ask your PDR service provider. This is because for one to get a license or certification, they must have undergone thorough PDR training and coursework. Also, the technicians should have been in the industry for at least five years to garner the best skills and expertise.
Does Your PDR Technician Use Corrosion Protection?
Corrosion protection is ultimately protecting the entire painted surfaces of your vehicle. The tools being used to repair the dents can accidentally rub the inside of a panel. You should make sure that in case any paint is pushed or rubbed is re-coated appropriately. If a technician is doing this, corrosion won’t be a problem from the PDR process.
Should I Expect A Guarantee from My PDR Service Provider?
A good company will stand behind its services. This is offering reasonable warranties on them. Most companies will offer a lifetime warranty, which would be the best deal.
After A PDR Will, The Repairs Be Visible?
When the paintless dent repair has been completed, there will be no evidence that a dent was once there. This is especially when it comes to minor debts. Similarly, the presence of major dents can’t be easily noticed.
How Do I Know Whether My Dents Are Repairable?
Most technicians will ask you to send a picture to assess the dent and tell you whether it can be repaired. Other technicians will require you to book an appointment where they’ll take their time to view your car and assess the damages. Your ideal technician will guide you on the best way to assess whether the damages can be repaired.
How Soon Should I Contact A PDR Technician After My Car Gets A Dent?
It’s important that you contact a paintless dent repair technician in the shortest time possible to get the dent repaired. Leaving the dent is an eyesore and a vehicle is typically most peoples second biggest investment besides their house. After all, the sooner you get it repaired, the better your vehicle will be without visible dent marks. Call or text Sioux Falls Dent Repair for a free quote at 605-205-8865.
Today we are going to discuss the types of insurance and which insurance coverage is for hail damage. Also what is all covered for the different types.
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Insurance Coverage
Do you have the proper insurance for hail damage coverage?
Do you have “full” Coverage? If so you are good to go. What exactly is “full coverage” insurance? Full coverage insurance covers all the bases for vehicle repairs. There are 3 parts to insurance for full coverage.
Collision Insurance
This insurance covers if you were to hit someone or if someone hits you. In South Dakota you must have un-insurance motorist insurance and this will help you in the case of you getting hit by someone without insurance. This has other policies that are all lumped together.
Comprehensive Insurance
This insurance type is what you need to cover hail damage. This covers any natural causes such as storm damage, trees falling, falling snow off of a roof for instance. It also covers if you were to hit an animal like a deer for example.
Liability Insurance
This is for all medical bills whether it be you, a passenger or another motorist. This is the insurance that covers all of those unfortunate injuries from a collision.
I have Comprehensive Coverage and Hail Damage, Now What?
Your First Step
First off if you were caught in the storm and in the vehicle we hope everything is ok. It can be a very terrifying experience when hail comes pounding down on your vehicle and you and your family are inside the car. Once the storm stops be sure to contact your insurance company and let them know you have hail damage. From there they will give you a claim number.
Step Two
Once you have the claim number you just need to bring the vehicle to the shop of your choice and have them handle it from there.
Your insurance company has NO SAY in who is to repair your car, again, this is very important and often misunderstood. Your insurance company has no say in who can repair you vehicle.
There is no need to get multiple estimates or anything like that. Ultimately the full repair costs will be gone over between the shop fixing the car and your insurance company. After the shop and your insurance company have finished all of the paperwork and processing your vehicle repairs will then begin. If you are working with us you will get daily updates on any of the processing and repairs.
Step Three
Pickup your vehicle dent free! Its that simple. We are here to make this very inconvenient experience all better and make your hail damage problems go away.
Have more questions or have damage you would like repaired?
There has been a lot of debate on how professional paintless dent repair is better than any other method of repairing dents, such as taking to an auto shop or doing it yourself with your repair kit. While attempting a DIY fix up is admirable and could save you some money in the long run, looking for a professional to get the job done is the most recommended way to go. This is because the pros outweigh the cons by a country mile. Here are some of the reasons why professional PDR is better.
PDR Is Insurance Approved
One outstanding benefit of seeking a professional to perform the PDR for you is that most of them are covered by insurance. This way, you do not have to worry about the burden that comes with the repair costs. In addition, in case the technicians do more damage in the process of fixing, the costs of repairing these new damages are solely upon them. This wouldn’t be the case if you chose to go with a DIY kit. For starters, you cover the cost of everything, and secondly, in the event of further damage, insurance wouldn’t cover the cost of repairs.
Saves You Time
Paintless dent repair is simple and easy for professionals because it is what they do day in and day out. Bearing that in mind, you can always trust them to complete a repair within the shortest time possible. You can drop your car off in the morning as you go to work and pick it up at the end of the day on your way home. It wouldn’t be that easy if you opted for a DIY toolkit. You will have to sacrifice some of your own time, that you would have otherwise used it to do some other constructive activities, to complete the repair job.
It Is Less Costly
DIY kits can be costly to buy, and you will not use it as much to get value for it because not every day your car will have a dent that needs repair. Instead, why don’t you take it to your local PDR shop? The technicians over there have access to state-of-the-art equipment that they use every day for paintless dent repair jobs. On top of having the latest equipment, they do not charge extremely high prices, and you are sure of getting value for your money.
Further Damage
If you decide to skip professional PDR and try to take a swing at it yourself with a DIY toolkit, you risk causing further damage. This is because you do not have the experience, expertise, or appropriate tools to efficiently get the repair done. A professional, on the other hand, bears all these things, which puts them at a better place to assess the damage and fix it as they see fit.
Do not risk a DIY operation that may blow up in your face. Get a professional today.
Call or text Sioux Falls Dent Repair for a free quote at 605-205-8865.
We are going look at this door ding dent and do a pricing breakdown for you today. This vehicle is a 2017 Chrysler 300s. This vehicle has a door ding in the right rear door and was a referral from Superior Detail, a local detailing shop. We start off by showing you how we gain access to this damage. From there we then show how we go about pricing this damage in this door for paintless dent repair.
We first setup our Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) light system so we can see a proper reflection of the damage. From there we then use our price guide that has a built in ruler to measure the damage. From there we have a base line to start the estimate.
Depth of the Dent
We then do a visual inspection of the depth of the dent. We even have a dent depth gauge that we can measure the depth in millimeters. It may not sound like a lot but a dent that is a over .25mm deep is medium depth.
Shallow Depth< .25mm
Medium Depth: .26 – .75mm
Deep Depth: : >.76mm
Apply Factors
There are many factors in a dent repair for pricing:
Metal makeup: steel, aluminum, high strength steel, ultra high strength steel
Glue Pulling: Do we need to glue pull this area because there is no access to the backside
Obstructed damage: is there a brace or internal structure in the way of the dent that we need to work around
Body line or contour line dent: this damage is much more harder to remove
Crease dents: some creases are so sharp that they cannot be removed 100% but a significant improvement can be made, this is all determined at the estimate time prior to repair.
Edge of panel: these areas are often very tight and require specialized edge tools to repair.
Special paint finish: this includes clear film, viynal wraps, stickers or decals. These items effect the sight of the repair and can make it more difficult.
Sound Deadener: these types of sound deadener pads, glues or compounds vary from manufacture so each repair method is different.
These are just some of the major factors in pricing out paintless dent repair.
The back side of our TDN Tool cart is filled with more paintless dent repair tools. These are tools we might use slightly less but are still needed very often. Starting from the left hand side we have an entire tool tray full of Dent Craft whale tails. These tools work specifically between bracing. This tray features multiple different lengths and widths of whale tail style tools.
On To More Tools
Moving to the next tray this one has our go to door tools on it. These are made up of PDR Finesse tools with their ratchet style handles. Featuring a shorter door tool, a longer version (not shown) and a flag style tool seen with tessa tape on the tip. We also have a PDR Finesse double bend tool with an interchangeable tip. The tip on this tool is available from Dead on Dent Tools and it features a red cherry cap available from Dent Craft.
But Wait There Is More
Finishing up on this tray is the Ultra Dent Tools and their Pick tools. These are sharper tools that have and work especially great on Aluminum panels.
