Most people can enjoy a bit of light hail but hailstorms are a whole other story. They are noisy, dangerous, and damaging, to say the least. If you live in the midwest, you are no stranger to hail and hailstorms.
There have been over 30 confirmed reports of hail in Sioux Falls so far this year and over 20 severe weather warnings in the last 12 months. During bad weather occurrences, residents of Sioux Falls and people who are traveling through may get caught in a hailstorm while driving.
This can be dangerous.
Let’s discuss what you can do in this situation and how Sioux Falls Dent Repair can help repair your car’s dents and dings after the hailstorm with Paintless Dent Repair (PDR).
What Should You Do?
Here is a step-by-step guide for what you should do if you get caught in a hailstorm while driving in Sioux Falls.
Do Not Leave Your Car
As much as you want to just leave your car and get indoors, do not make the mistake of leaving your car during a hailstorm. Severe hailstorms mean golf ball-sized hail, which can easily land you a trip to the hospital. Your car’s roof is ample strong, and you should wait out the hailstorm in your car.
Pull Over to Safety
Driving in a hailstorm is not an option. Moreover, the speed of your car and the hailstorm can do greater damage to your car and even shatter windows. Your best bet is to slowly pull over to the side, away from traffic, and switch your hazard lights on.
Move Away from Windows
Huddle to the center of your car and away from the windows to avoid injury in case the window breaks. Every inch counts so pull everyone near the center of the roof.
Cover Eyes & Head
Shattering glass can fly very far. Find an extra jacket, blanket, or any thick fabric to cover your head and eyes, and the same goes for the passengers.
Drive to Safety Before Getting Out
Once the hailstorm passes, which you will know when the noise stops, drive your car to safety. Drive to safety before you check your car for damage. It might have gone through a lot, but it cannot get any worse till you reach safety.
Hail Damage on Your Car
It is inevitable that your car’s roof, hood, and other parts look like they were popping corn. After a hailstorm, it is best to get the dents and dings fixed quickly, and Sioux Falls Dent Repair‘s Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) is the best and fastest solution.
Why Sioux Falls Dent Repair PDR?
Sioux Falls Dent Repair provides the most experienced, reliable, and certified technicians for PDR in and around Sioux Falls. Their certified technicians are experts in repairing dents and dings with PDR on any make and model of cars.
They can get your car repaired in the fastest time with the best results that restore your car to its original form.
If you want to learn more about Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) at Sioux Falls Dent Repair or how you can get a free estimate for your car’s dent and dings, click here to get started!
Dents on jeeps are inevitable. When you use your jeeps for off-road adventures on rugged terrains and rocky roads, it is easy to pick up dents and dings. This will make your jeep look more battered and also lower its resale value.
Jeeps and cars have bodies made of aluminum. The aluminum panels make repairing the dents and dings much more difficult. Aluminum used in automobiles is not brittle and comes in a variety of strengths. They are hard to dent as they take double the amount of force to dent as opposed to mild steel.
Dent repair of jeep wranglers takes much more force as well as different tools to get it right.
What are the Common Dents on a Jeep Wrangler?
Your jeep wrangler can have numerous types of dents. But Sioux Falls knows how to remove all these dents effectively. Here is a list of some of the most common dents.
Round Dents
Round dents are caused by round objects hitting the bumper, door, or hood. These could be hailstones, rocks, footballs, baseballs, basketball, causing a dent to be formed immediately.
Car Dings
Car dings are the type of dents that occur when small objects hit your jeep on a windy day or during a rocky ride. Most damage of this nature is easy and affordable to repair, as it is mostly a small scratch, crack or chip in the paint. To keep your jeep’s value high, it is essential to get these minor dents and dings repaired with PDR as soon as possible to avoid further damage to your jeep.
Crease Dents
Crease dents stretch your jeeps metal. They are complex and time-consuming to repair but can repair using PDR. Using advanced and modern techniques, crease dents are no longer a problem and can repair easily.
PDR for Your Jeep Wrangler
Paintless dent repair (PDR) is a cost-effective way to restore the car’s body to factory-like condition in the least amount of time and cost. Most auto dent removal requires using body fillers or paints to fill in dents that are not as long-lasting.
Bondo and fillers are used in traditional body shop repairs to make the car’s surface look straight, while paintless dent repair simply fixes your jeep’s dent. Our certified technicians take their time softly massaging the metal back to its original condition, preserving the factory finish.
Contact Us
If your jeep got a dent and you live in South Dakota, Sioux Falls has got it covered for you. You can visit our Instagram page to have a look at our best services or click here to get your repair process started!
You do not necessarily have to be in an accident for dents to occur, they can happen even when you are not behind the wheel, although this is less common. Dents and dings are unpredictable, and the best approach is to get them fixed immediately.
For best results, always opt for a Paintless Dent Repair (PDR), specifically from the certified PDR technicians at Sioux Falls Dent Repair, as they are the best in the business.
Let’s discuss some common causes of dents on your car, why PDR is a good option and what are its benefits.
5 Common Causes of Dents on Your Car
Here are the 5 most common causes of dents on your car as they occur.
Back Up Into Garage Door
We’ve all been there, and it is not that shameful. Even the most expert drivers can sometimes back into their garage door, causing a ding or dent on their cars.
Hail Damage
The most common natural cause of disastrous clusters of dents on your roof, hood, trunk and sometimes even the sides of your car. Depending on the severity of the weather, hail damage can cause some serious dents and dings.
Shopping Carts
Shopping mall parking lots are prime for shopping cart collisions. These carts often leave dents and dings on cars when people lose control of them or they are distracted by any number of things. Sometimes, they even slide on uneven surfaces and cause car dents when left unattended.
Car Doors
Whether intentional or unintentional, other cars parked close to yours can sometimes leave a dent or a ding on your car when they open their doors carelessly.
Fallen Tree Branches
Bad weather does not only directly cause dents and dings from hail damage, often windstorms and other weather conditions can indirectly dent or ding your car when damaged tree branches fall on your car.
Why Paintless Dent Repair (PDR)?
There are many reasons to use paintless dent repair (PDR) for the dents and dings caused by the mentioned occurrences. These include saving time, money, paperwork and the originality and resale value of your car.
Benefits of Using Paintless Dent Repair
Saving Time
Unlike traditional dent repair, PDR can be done in a few hours on the same day you bring your car to Sioux Falls Dent Repair. This is true even for the extensive hail damage and you will save plenty of time with PDR.
Saving Money
There are not extra material costs of fillers and paints, which means you only pay for the skills of a certified PDR technician at Sioux Falls. This ends up costing you far less than a traditional dent repair.
Paperwork
Since PDR is so inexpensive, you can pay out of pocket and forget about the hassle of filing any paperwork with your insurer.
Originality & Resale Value
PDR does not scrape or damage the original paint coat of your car to repair dents. Which means it preserves its originality and saves its resale value for longer.
Conclusion
Whether your dents and dings occur from the mentioned causes or any other cause, PDR is the best option, and you should always opt for one. If you live in or around South Dakota, then we highly recommend Sioux Falls Dent Repair for all your PDR needs.
Today, we are going to talk about NFC and how it can help you take your business to another level. NFC or Near Field Communication is the process of wirelessly communicating between two objects through touch. This feature was initially seen on smartphones and is now making its way over to other products.
We are going to dive deeper into what we use here at Sioux Falls Dent Repair and that is NFC stickers or tags. There are different versions of these NFC tags and each one can be programmed to do something different. We have a couple of stickers and have integrated them into our business cars that were designed by Dave Streen and his team at DentRepair.com.
All it takes is a tap on the back of a NFC-compatible cellphone and the information that we program pops up on the customers device. As you can see, the first business card redirects the customer to our Google My Business Review Page so that the customer can leave a review almost instantly. We take out the frustrating business of looking for the review page so that our customers don’t waste their time and effort.
BUT WAIT… THERE’S MORE!
Another business card we have redirects the customer to the Sioux Falls Dent Repair Contact Us page. In the webpage, the customer will find all the information they need to get in touch with us including our shop number, cellphone number, email address, shop address, and all of our social media platforms including, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. It always displays our certifications along with other information you the customer might be looking for.
Finally, there is a third option in our NFC business cards. The NFC tag on this card is just a little bit bigger but still fits perfectly on to the card. What does this tag do? Well, once it is connected to a cellphone, it will automatically add our contact information into the customer’s device. Everything from the owner’s name (in this case, Jack Bucknell), business name, direct cellphone number, email address, shop address, and the web address is automatically added to the customers phone.
These business cards are perfect for trade shows and seminars because we can pass out our information with just a single tap. Even if you wanted to give out these business cards like regular business cards, they are extremely cost-effective so you wouldn’t feel it. Plus you don’t need a computer to program them – just a cellphone and an app and you’re all set. If you want to get your hands on these NFC tags, check out www.DentRepair.com. The possibilities are endless when it comes to these NFC tags and they can only help your business.
So, if you want to incorporate these NFC tags into your business, get in touch with Dave Streen or check out www.DentRepair.com for more information. Or, you can get in touch with us and we will be happy to help you out. If you have any questions or queries, feel free to call or text us at 605-250-1023. Visit our website at www.SiouxFallsDentRepair.com to learn more about us.
Today, we take on a dented Subaru bumper that seemed to have backed into something. This was a typical PDR (Paintless Dent Repair) job for us, however, when the owner took the car to a body shop to get a quote, they were given an $800-$900 estimate.
The Damage
A closer look at the damaged area, we found that there was a little bit of paint damage and scuffing around the dent. Nothing about the repair was too extreme, which was a blessing for both us, and the customer. In fact, the customer brought along some Subaru touch-up paint for their car so that we didn’t have to look for the perfect matching shade.
Perfect Situation
When it comes to PDR, bumpers are not really the ideal part to repair because they normally have broken plastic or severe spider paint cracks. Nevertheless, as I mentioned earlier, this repair was exactly what PDR is about with regards to very few touch-up spots. And a bonus for us was that the car was a black one so the touch-up paint that we used wouldn’t really stand out, unless you go looking for it.
Paint Touch Up
The customer wasn’t too concerned about the touch-up paint job as we were able to quote the repair at just a fraction of what was being asked for by the body shop they visited. Now, the difference here is that a body shop will actually disassemble, repair, and repaint the entire bumper and what we do is pull the dent out and touch-up the area without covering the original paint job. The vehicle is a 2012 Subaru Legacy with a good amount of wear and tear across the body but the owner is satisfied with its performance and doesn’t really want to spend a lot on repairs.
If you have any repair work that you would like us to take a look at or have any questions, contact us at 605-250-1023or visit our website at Start The Process Now!
At Sioux Falls Dent Repair, we have been repairing vehicles via the PDR method for a very long time. Even though it is our preference to repair cars with the paintless dent repair method whenever we can, there are some instances when our hands are tied. These situations can be:
When the customer insists for a repair via the traditional method
When the dent can’t be fixed by PDR
There’s a limited kind of dents that PDR can fix. If your car has a dent that we can’t use PDR on, we might have no option but to opt for an auto body shop repair. PDR is usually used on the casually occurring dents that are high in number.
Which Dent Can You Use PDR On?
Round Dents
These dents are usually caused by hail, a football, basketball, or baseball. These dents are usually easy to repair and don’t cost much either. They leave a round circular dent on your vehicle.
Dings
A car ding is normally caused by a shopping cart or by other vehicles. It’s easy to get a ding on your when your car is parked in a crowded parking lot. Dings are usually easy to repair. Even if your car has a scratch, a chip, or a crack in the paint, this damage can be removed.
Crease
Crease dents are usually one of the complex ones we get. They are likely to stretch your car’s body – but that doesn’t mean they can’t be repaired with PDR. Because of the advancement of technology, crease dents are no longer the threat they used to be.
Dents apart from these are repaired with the auto body shop repair – but if you had to pick between PDR and an auto body shop repair – which one would you choose?
PDR vs. Auto Body Shop Repair – Head to Head
The Process
To repair a dent with an auto body shop repair, a technician has to drill holes on the side of the dent. They then fill the dented part with body fillers and then paint over it to make it look like the dent has been repaired. While on the other hand, to fix a dent via the PDR method, the technician has to massage the dent from the back. PDR is a lot quicker than an auto body shop dent repair.
Price
Since a body filler and paint are used on an auto body shop repair, it is much more expensive than PDR which is a lot more affordable. An autobody shop repair also requires a lot of work that is exactly why it can take more out of your wallet.
Car Life
When your car is shipped from the factory, it has a protective coating over the paint, which saves it from scratches and dings. When your car goes for an auto body shop repair, this layer is compromised. But when your car goes for a PDR, this layer isn’t even touched. With PDR, your car can look fresh for a longer time.
So if your car needs a paintless dent repair – call Sioux falls dent repair for a fix or to get a free estimate.
