Also referred to as paintless dent removal or PDR, paintless dent repair restores a vehicle’s body to factory-like condition using an environmentally-friendly repair method at a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time compared to a traditional auto body shop. Also, PDR can be used to remove hail damage and body creases, as well as dents and dings from vehicles. There are four primary processes involved in the paintless dent repair, and they are:
Assessing the damage
Gaining access to the dent
Getting a close examination of the dent
Application of the slow pressure to work out the dent
Sioux Fall Dent Repair specializes in paintless dent repair services, and the company will give your vehicle a professional PDR treatment, whether your car has a dent from a small collision or large dents.
There are techniques and processes involved in PDR. With Sioux Fall Dent Repair, several vehicles have been restored to their original factory condition by any of its certified technicians without compromising the wallet of a consumer or the original painted finish of a vehicle.
For Sioux Fall Dent Repair to restore the vehicle to their pre-damage condition, you may continue reading to know how Sioux Fall Dent Repair has been using paintless dent repair for these purposes.
Assessing the Damage
The first step to any process of repair is to assess the damage. Experts will first locate the spot of the dent, whether they are large dents and how they will get to the dent. Then, the professionals working with Sioux Fall Dent Repair will prepare the area around the dent for the repair after they have assessed the damage and determined whether they can remove it effectively using PDR.
Gaining Access to the Dent
Usually, the requirement by PDR for accessing is through the backside of the dent, that is, professionals carefully remove interior panels, taillights, and panels. Also, you need a pathway to the dent for them to perform PDR. Then, it will be time to perform the PDR when you have access to a dent. It is when the experts at Sioux Fall Dent Repair use their expertise and precision come into play.
Getting a Close Examination of the Dent
For any certified technician at Sioux Fall Dent Repair to have a better look at the offending dent from their point of view, they make use of a special light board. With this board showing a shadow the dent’s shadow, the technicians will know the exact place to place tools on the back end of the dent so they can massage the body back to its original condition.
Application of the Slow Pressure to Work Out the Dent
Now, for them to carefully massage the exterior back to its original position, they make use of unique tools. And depending on the severity of the dent, the process of PDR can be completed within the same day. And considering how quick and non-invasive the process is, the results are quite amazing.
You can consult Sioux Fall Dent Repair today if you have dings or dents on your vehicle, and you can be sure of getting a fantastic result when they bring your vehicle back to its original condition.
Advantages of Using Paintless Dent Repair for Your Car
There can be several causes from dents that mar the finish of your car. It could be that while you pack your vehicle, the damage appeared mysteriously, you were involved in a fender bender, or you got caught in a hail storm.
The result may be less than pristine appearance regardless of the cause. For you to erase unsightly dents, so the damage is virtually undetectable, you can go for paintless dent repair, PDR, which Sioux Falls Dent Repair offers in a cost-effective and fast way.
What is Paintless Dent Repair?
Paintless dent repair, PDR, is a technique used to remove dings, hail damages, scratches, or small dents from your car. You can quickly eliminate hail damage dents from your car’s metal panels. Sioux Fall Dent Repair specializes in paintless dent repair for SUVs, trucks, and cars. The professionals at Sioux Fall Dent Repair will smooth the surface out in no time if you have a small dent anywhere on your vehicle.
Advantages of Using PDR
Environmentally-friendly – there won’t be any negative impact on the environment with PDR. There won’t be danger of groundwater contamination, paint thinner, and auto paint, chemicals from body filler, and the air aren’t polluted by the release of harmful substances from body filler.
Lower cost – the costs of labor are considerably lower because paintless dent repair takes less time than a conventional repair. You will be convinced as to how choosing PDR can save you money when you factor in the savings on materials like body coats, primer, and filler of expensive auto paint.
Time savings – you will have only a ding of the time to complete conventional bodywork with paintless dent repair. For traditional bodywork procedures, it can take days or even weeks. However, the entire process can take hours, depending on the number and size of dent requiring repair.
Value retention – paintless dent repair can help maintain the value of your vehicle compared to the traditional maintenance that requires repainting damaged areas and the use of body filler. You will see that there are no concerns about paint color differences or overspray, and the original factory finish isn’t altered when a skilled technician corrects defects with the use of specialized PDR procedures and tools.
Professional Paintless Dent Repair for Your Car
Sioux Fall Dent Repair is an expert when it comes to paintless dent repair for all SUVs, trucks, cars, and commercial vehicles. The company will fully restore your vehicle to its original look using paintless dent repair, and you won’t see any more damages to the body.
Sioux Fall Dent Repair also fixes small dings and dents. The car door of someone can make contact with your vehicle in a parking lot. The dent repairing company can repair those minor dings and dents fast and effectively. In just a few hours, the company will use paintless dent repair to improve your car as it has done for many vehicles. And on the same day, you can get back on the road as you get back into your car.
Do you have additional questions or in need of some dent repairs on your vehicle?
Damage can happen in all forms and shapes and can come from almost anything when it comes to your vehicle. You can always be prepared for any unforeseen and unfortunate accumulation of damage to truck or car, from broken windows to scratches dreaded dings, dents, and flat tires. You will want to repair all damages that can be seen on the exterior of your vehicle if you’re going to keep your car in good looking form or presentable to the public.
We all hate to see dents on our cars, whatever the reason may be. While there are ways to prevent the damage, vehicles inevitably get dented throughout their lifespan.
Depending on what caused them to begin with, dents come in all shapes and sizes. Your local automotive retailer could sell a DIY dent repair kit that can repair those pesky minor dents for you if you’re handy with tools. However, you may want to hire a professional dent repair specialist like Sioux Fall Dent Repair that has the know-how and tools to repair the dent properly if you are faced with significant eyesore dents.
You will get help as to which way to go when you ultimately know what type of dent you will have to tackle.
Dent Types
Crease Type Dents – this type of dents tears and bends the metal of the car. The car has its metal memory formed when they heat the metal and shape it to the required design when it is being produced. There is a possibility of losing the metal memory and thus, making it quite challenging to repair the car back to its original shape when it acquires a crease type dent.
Round Dents – round dents happen through hailstone or a similarly round object such as basketball, baseball, football, and so on, hits the car and cause a dimple on the hood, roof, bumper, or door.
Car Dings – car dings types of dents are caused by pokes or smaller objects that are usually easy to repair as far as the paint of the vehicle has no damage. These types of dents are quite common.
Paintless Dent Repair Removes All Dents
Professionals can repair most non-collision dents such as round dents and ding with the use of paintless dent repair, PDR. Also, with PDR, experts can remove common dents that are caused by other car doors and storms which produce hailstones. Most of the clients at Sioux Fall Dent Repair are amazed by how the professionals at the company transform their vehicles or motorcycles back to its original conditions and wish they would have known about this repair service before.
You can contact a certified technician at Sioux Fall Dent Repair today if you want to know more about the company’s paintless dent repair services, want a free quote, or you have a dent and would like to know how PDR can help you. While you can call the company, book an appointment, or text them, you can also go to their website to see how they perform paintless dent repair on vehicles and how they can also help you. See other repairs here!
Do you have any other questions that we did not answer in this article?
This is very subjective to each person, are small dents worth fixing? First off which one of these people best describes you and your vehicle?
A Mode of Transportation
Some see a vehicle as disposable and will get rid of their vehicle in just a few short years. It is just a way of transportation. We get it, everyone has priorities in life. A vehicle is important just not so much cosmetically. To some if a vehicle starts up, runs, drives, has air conditioning and heat, that is all they want and need. A small dent or ding is so low on the priority list it is the LAST thing on their mind.
Detailed and OCD
On the other hand, some people place a lot of value in the condition of their vehicle. They may have a high case of OCD, have a very clean and well kept vehicle. This type of detail often extends to other parts of their lives. A very clean house, well maintained yard. Do you often dress more on the side of a business professional, wearing button up shirts, polos, slacks or a suit. Or maybe a dresses and heals are more your style. Now we hate to stereo type but it gives a good visual for a reader and to help explain. We have seen people in both styles drive many different style vehicles.
This person may often have their vehicle regularly washed, and I’m not talking about running it through a basic gas station car wash. I’m talking they take their vehicle to a professional detailer who goes though every nook and cranny of their vehicle to make it spotless. After the insides are deep cleaned the outside is then washed, buffed, polished and they may even have a ceramic coating applied. To put this simply, this is the same theory as wax but just the theory is where the differences stop. Ceramic coating is often times well over a thousand dollars to apply so just the thought of us mentioning wax as similar may make people scoff. We get it, but to explain this as basic as possible this is what most know and it is the easiest for others to compare the basic concept to.
Which Are You?
Do you have an idea of which person you may slightly lean to or we may have described you exactly.
If you are more like the first person we described then maybe that small dent or ding is not worth fixing to you. If you are more like the second person we described then to you a small dent or ding is worth every penny to make sure your baby is always in pristine condition and spotless.
Other Alternatives
Are you thinking of selling your vehicle soon? Is your vehicle a lease that you are needed to turn in soon?
We have a whole article discussing selling a car with dents, dings and hail damage you can
We often get asked “What Kind of Dents Can Be Fixed?” Not every dent is the same and there are many variables when determining what can and cannot be fixed. Even down to each person may have their own standard for a repair.
Shallow Dents
These are typically the easiest to repair assuming we can get a tool to the backside to push the damage out. Even shallow dents in certain metals, lets say aluminum, high strength steel or stainless steel though create extra difficulties. Because these metals are stronger even though they may be physically thinner does not mean they are easy to remove dents from. Stronger metals make even a shallow impact point difficult to remove. This is especially true when we cannot push the damage out and have to use the glue pulling method.
A perfect example for this is kitchen appliances or washer and dryers. Most of todays appliances and the current trend is stainless steel. We have attempted to make repairs on these items and more often then not are NOT able to repair the damage to our satisfaction. That does not mean the customer is not extremely happy with the repair however. If a person can have a dent removed lets say 80 t o 90% that is fantastic for them. The reason being is their alternative for a repair might even be as extreme as replacing the appliance!
Deep Dents
There are many degrees of deep dents. What someone may consider deep we might consider not repairable. We even have a tool called a Dent Depth Gauge from Black Plague PDR to help measure the depth of dents to better estimate damage and know for sure prior to the repair how the damage will turn out. For our pricing structure we are talk tenths of millimeters for depth.
Our pricing guide prices out depths as so:
Shallow Depth <.25mm
Medium Depth: .26-.75mm
Deep Depth: .76+mm
We have repaired dents into the 2mm deep range, but also struggled repairing dents in the 1.0mm range. This is where access to the backside is extremely important. Not only for a dent repair tool but also specialized metal shrinking tools as well.
Here is our dent depth gauge being used to measure the depth of a dent (2mm+)
Glue Pull Dent Repair
When we cannot push damage out with a traditional tool we have to resort to the glue pulling method for repairs. Here we use specialized hot metal adhesives to glue a glue tab to the vehicles paint finish. Don’t worry this entire process is designed specifically for this and will not harm the vehicles factory finish. From there we let the glue try sometimes for only a few seconds. We then use specialized glue pulling devices to pull the damage out. From there we use a release agent to release the glue from the vehicle and it peels right off.
Traditional Methods
The best choice for us to repair dents is to be able to glue pull AND push damage out with a traditional tools. Even extreme damage we may start using the glue pull method to pull a bunch of the damage out. Once the damage has been pulled out we then can go in with a tool and do the final details to finish up a dent repair.
We always tell people 80% of the repair is ONLY 20% of the work. The last 20% of the repair IS 80% of the work. This is why you might see others do repairs and they look not quite finished, or much “better”. Say for instance you have a repair that takes a technician 4-5 hours. It might only take him a hour or so to “rough” the damage out or get it to 80%. The biggest battle is getting the minor waves, wiggles, low and high spots all flat.
Do you have questions about our dent removal process?
Here we have our lead technician, Jack Bucknell with us at Sioux Falls Dent Repair, Showing you some damage we repaired in this 2012 Buick Verano. This damage is quite extreme for paintless dent repair but with the right tools and enough patience this damage can be worked out and removed using the Paintless Dent Repair method.
Accessing The Damage
We start off this repair by taking the vehicle apart to gain access to the backside. First accessing the trunk area then removing multiple components. We first take out the spare tire cover along with some interior trim panels. Then we remove the tail light assembly follows by lowering the bumper cover on the left hand side. We have to lower the bumper down in order to gain access to the bottom edge so that we can better work the edge of the damage out.
Tools Used
Multiple tools ranging from Ultra dent tools, Dent Craft tools, Dent Dials all for pushing. We then use knockdowns from VIP, Edgy Tools and more. For our hammer selections we are using the Daniel Gromm 144 from Carbon Tech PDR Tools, we also use the Shane Jacks Signature Series Jackhammer fit with tips from Edgy tools, specifically using the Knockers tip in multiple sizes.
Things Are Heating Up
Some technicians as well as ourselves also use a Map gas or propane torch as well for heat, but with this damage requiring a constant heat, plus we are in a shop environment so we have power to run a heat gun, this is the best course of action. Also the Get a Grip arm with a heat gun was an absolute must for this repair.
Finish Time
Time to put the vehicle back together for the customer. Then we test all of the components manually to make sure they all work. A Pre Diagnostic computer scan is than ran on the vehicle. This insures all of the vehicle components are working after the repairs are made and everything is put back together correctly and that the computer systems are communicating correctly.
This repair was made in just ONE DAY. We started on this repair in the morning and finished in the afternoon. The customer was only without their vehicle for a day for this repair making it quick and simple for them. No need to go to a body shop for this type of damage. No hassles of having body work, repainting, bondo and then later sand scratches showing up or color miss matches like with a body shop. This damage does not register on a Carfax History Report when choosing Paintless Dent Repair and will not devalue your vehicle like a body shop repair will. There will no be indication there was ever damage to your vehicle with this type of repair method.
Do you have more questions or need a repair done on your own vehicle?
