Paintless dent repair, also known as PDR, is an environmentally friendly way of repairing a dent. With the help of PDR, you can easily restore your car into its original shape without destroying the factory paint or the protective layer on top of it.
The paintless dent repair process usually consists of four vital steps. If you’re getting hail repair done from a certified technician, they’re probably going to perform these four steps for dent removal.
Damage assessment
Entering the dent
Looking/Evaluating the dent
Applying slow pressure to remove the dent
The PDR Process
Every day our certified technicians work on all kinds of vehicles to make car owners happy. The best part about the PDR process is that it doesn’t hurt your wallet that much, and it’s very quick. To understand how the PDR process works, read on!
Damage Assessment
Initially, the certified technician working on your car will first evaluate the dent so they know how serious the damage is. The severity of the dent can also decide how much time the technician will need to remove the dent.
In most cases of PDR, the dent removal process can take just a day. But if the dent is too big, the certified technician might take more than a day.
Examining the Dent
When a technician is done looking at your vehicle after the initial stage, they’ll plan how to enter the dent so they can fix it. In most cases, expert technicians enter a dent from the back so they can slowly massage the car’s body back into its original form. However, if that is not possible, the technician might try to “pull” out the dent from the front. This, however, depends on the car accident that occurred, and the damage the car has sustained.
Taking a Better Look
Certified technicians at Sioux Falls Dent Repair can also use a special light to look at the dent so they could understand it from their point of view. The light can show them shadows of the dent. This can, in turn, tell them which part they’ll have to focus on particularly.
Applying Slow Pressure
Once the technician has understood what they need to do to repair the dent, they carefully utilize their tools to massage the exterior of your car’s body so it can be restored back to its original state. In most cases, the PDR process can be completed on the same day the car comes to our shop.
What Can’t Be Fixed With PDR?
Even though dent repairs can be made very convenient with the PDR process, there are some car accidents for which PDR is not recommended. For example, if your car got a scratch or an abrasion, PDR can’t help in this case.
In a case like this, touching up will be necessary, and your car might need a repaint.
Conclusion
If your car got in an accident and you’re looking for dent removal – Sioux Falls dent repair can help. Our certified technicians can ensure that your car is back in the shape it originally was without compromising the original paint.
Since there has been a greater strive for fuel efficiency and lower carbon footprints, electric vehicles have started to gain popularity. Since there are more electric cars on the road, like a Tesla (Model 3, Model Y, Model S or Model X), Hyundai Kona, or a Jaguar I-Pace, more and more of these vehicles have started to show up for dent repair services in Sioux Falls. The types of systems that are used to repair these dents can vary.
If you’re going to Sioux Falls Dent Repair for dent removal from your electric vehicle, you’d be glad to know that they are the only dent repair shop in Sioux Falls that are IMI certified. Because of this reason, you know you can trust their dent repair services.
Incurring hail damage or dings to your electric vehicle can be very stressful – especially if you have an electric vehicle. Fortunately for Sioux Fall residents, technicians at our shop can quickly diagnose the problem your car has, repair the dents and dings, and restore your electric vehicle to its initial condition.
After the repair is done, your car will be available for you to pick up.
Why Should You Choose Sioux Falls Dent Repair?
Sioux Falls Dent Repair is the premier paintless dent repair specialist in Sioux Falls. Not only do we specialize in paintless dent repair, but we are also the only IMI certified car repair shop in Sioux Falls. If you’re booking an appointment for a paintless dent repair at our shop – in most cases, you’ll get your vehicle back the same day.
The certifications that we have are:
ARC PDR Repair Master Technician Certified
ARC Hail Damage Repair Master Certified
PDR Nation Certified:
Ethics and Standards
Hail Damage Estimating
Corrosion Protection and Paint
NAPDRT Certified
Dent Trainer Hail Damage Estimating Certified
The PDR Process
Every day, our expert technicians work on the cars that come into our shop. The PDR process can remove a dent or ding from your electric vehicle without compromising the paint or hurting too much of your wallet. But how does the PDR process work?
Evaluating the Damage
The first step to any repair process is evaluating the damage that has been done. Where did the dent happen? How big is it? How can I reach the dent? After evaluating the dent and determining if it can be removed through PDR, the area around the dent is prepared for PDR.
Accessing the Dent
In most conditions, a technician will access the dent from the back side. This means that they will first carefully remove the trim panels, the taillights, and in some conditions, they might have to remove panels like the hood or trunk lid as well.
Once the dent can be accessed, the technician can perform PDR to fix the body of your car. It is crucial that for this step of the process, you have an expert technician working on your car.
Applying Slow Pressure
With the help of specialized tools, the body of the car is massaged so the exterior can be restored to its original position. Because of the expertise of our technicians, we can complete the PDR process on the same day you send us our vehicle.
The Bottom Line
If your electric vehicle has sustained a dent or a ding, contact Sioux Falls Dent Repair for our exemplary services! You can also book us for a free damage assessment.
State Farm offers a wide range of claim service options for vehicle repairs and estimates, including hail repair and damage. It has a particular ‘Select Service Program’ that involves a network of auto repair workshops committed to providing professional and quality repair services to its customers.
Sioux Falls proudly announces that we accept State Farm insurance for paintless dent repairs (PDR) and strive to get your vehicle all fixed up after that horrendous hail damage. All you have to do is bring your vehicle to our workshop, get an estimate, and relax while we complete rid of the dings and dents for you.
Additionally, you can also avail the following benefits by having a State Farm Insurance:
A written, national limited lifetime repair warranty
Guaranteed completion dates
Direct payment to the shop once hail repair is complete
How Does State Farm Insurance Works?
Step 1: Choose a shop for your Hail Repair
You can quickly and conveniently choose Sioux Falls Dent Repair as your choice and get rid of the dents and dings from our expert PDR technicians.
Step 2: Contact Us to Schedule an Estimate
You can call or text us at 605-205-8865 to schedule a free hail damage estimate.
Step 3: Repair Begins
Once the estimate is approved, then PDR begins to undo all that heart-breaking hail damage.
Step 4: Simply pay your deductible directly to our shop
Step 5: Lastly, State Farm will receive the bills as soon as the repairs are dealt with.
Insurance Accepted for PDR at Sioux Falls
The PDR or Paintless Dent Repair process eradicates hail dents and other kinds of damage from a vehicle’s external surface panels without disturbing the original factory paint.
How Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) Works?
Specialized PDR tools are used to apply pressure on the backside of the damaged panel to remove surface dents and dings.
It also involves bonding a device or a tab to the exterior of the damaged surface and pull the dent from the topside.
Refinishing is not required
The expert PDR technicians at Sioux Falls will guarantee customers’ satisfaction for their impeccable job at paintless dent repair.
What Are You Waiting For?
Our expert PDR technicians do their best to get rid of those dreadful golf-ball-sized dents and dings and make sure that the original factory paint of your vehicle remains intact. Give us a call or leave a text at 605-205-8865 to use your State Farm insurance for your next PDR job. You can also click here for a free hail damage assessment.
What camera gear do we use to shoot our regular videos? Check out what we all use and what we use each specific camera system for.
Live Videos
Now this video is shot on my Samsung Note 10 Plus. This phone has a fantastic camera for not only pictures but also takes great quality video as well. We do a combination of Live videos but daily we are shooting them on our Instagram page. Be sure to follow us on IG.
Since this video was shot we have even upgraded and purchased a new cell phone stabilizer. This tool is the DJI Osmo 4. This device allows us to have it hold our phone and stabilizes the footage. This makes it much more smooth, so no more wobbly footage shot from us just holding our cell phone. Also you won’t have any of the audio issues, like before. Specifically with us moving our hand around on the microphone area and causing all of the annoying noises and muffling. If you are interested in getting any of the items mentioned in this article we have links below!
Non Live Videos
The rest of our non Live videos will now be shot on the Canon EOS R. This camera is fitted with the RF 15-35mm L series Lens. This camera is defiantly overkill to some for what we are trying to show, but we believe in having the best tools to do the best possible job and this only helps. Its built in lens image stabilizing helps with shooting footage on vehicles when we have to use the camera in our hands. As of now we do not currently own a stabilizer that will fit this camera system. We do have one but it works great on our other smaller Cannon m50 camera. The m50 is a great camera for people wanting to up their video game in our opinions but not needed by any means. Most people in our industry strictly use their phone cameras and it defiantly can make things much more simple.
With our technician Jack always loving to nerd out the way he does this was not enough and he opted to upgrade our systems to provide better content. With upgrading equipment also comes upgrading software and the time spent in the editing department though.
Hyper lapse and Time lapse Videos
If you’re not familiar with these video styles, what this is is basically a sped up version of videos where you see us working super fast. Nothing is in slow motion its all super sped up footage. A time lapse is basically individual photos taken to make a sped up video clip. A hyper lapse is something Go Pro’s can do to make the footage basically flow together better than a time lapse. For this footage style we use the Go Pro Hero 7 Black. Now our phone cameras, canon cameras will do time lapse footage but we prefer the hyper lapse look so we tend to stick with that. Plus the go pro being as small as it is and super simple. Simply turn it on and hit record. It really streamlines this process and works best for us for this.
Audio
For microphones we heavily favor the Rode mic series. Most of the time we use the Rode Wireless Go Mic on our Cannon EOS R. For other styles of shooting where a microphone on just one person isn’t enough we use the Rode NTG shotgun style microphone. This microphone allows us to pick up multiple people and sounds. This is best for interviews and some vehicle walk arounds.
This video was originally shot LIVE on our Instagram page on 9-9-2020, be sure to follow us there to see more content: https://www.instagram.com/siouxfallsdentrepair
Have you ever witnessed how one moment the weather seems amazing, but in the next, the mighty mother nature decides to create havoc and leaves a massive trail of damage in her wake?
Car hail damage is one of the devastating outcomes of such scenarios. Dents and dings of the size of a golf ball or a grapefruit, are often witnessed by several vehicle owners. The US alone bears an average of insured hail damage losses of about $15 million each year for both auto and home claims.
Read on further to know how hail damage assessment is done by professional technicians at Sioux Falls to ensure you can timely claim for the insurance, get your car fixed and put it back on the road.
Hail Damage Assessment at Sioux Falls Dent Repair
Often there are times when hail damage can result in a total loss for customers. But we at Sioux Falls try out best to help our customers in the best possible way to not just get their car fixed but also to claim for insurance for the catastrophic hail damage.
Hail Damage Assessment Process
When a vehicle reaches our workshop for hail damage repair, our expert repair technicians carefully assess each nook of the car for probable damage. Before initiating the fixing process, mark each damage according to its severity.
Cracked Vehicle Paint
Cracked paint is the result of an ice piece hitting the surface of the vehicle with so much force that it hits the car’s inner structure and leads to the paint cracking outwards. Our expert technician analyzes the car for any indication of cracked paint and marks it either with a circle or writes ‘cracked paint’ on the spot with a temporary marker.
Over-sized Dents
A very simple but effective way to assess over-sized dents is using a magnet that is the size of half a dollar coin as a reference to analyze hail damage. If the damage is more significant than the magnet coin, the damage is considered to be over-sized. These over-sized dents are marked with the alphabet ‘X’ for reference during the repair process.
Severe Damage
Usually, on the roof of the vehicle, there is hail damage so severe that merely repairing it cannot undo the damage. For this purpose, the vehicle will be sent to the body shop for complete replacement; Where the entire roof is cut off, and a new roof is positioned. Other parts of the vehicle are also assessed to determine if they also need to be replaced or not.
Earlier Work on Vehicle
Apart from assessing the hail damage, our expert technicians also check the vehicle for any previous work such as PDR or paint job, etc. This allows them to devise a repair plan that is most suitable and effective for the vehicle.
Insurance Claim
Apart from assessing the hail damage, our technicians make sure to take pictures of the damage and prepare a comprehensive written damage report or estimate that can be sent for the insurance claim.
How Can You Reach Us?
If you are worried about the damage that this hail has caused, then we’ll be more than happy to get you all fixed up for your hail damage, get you all set up for the insurance claim, and get your vehicle back on the road.
Give us a call at 605-205-8865 or click here for a free damage assessment.
See one of the tools we use to help us inspect vehicles for damage. It also makes for a faster inspection. This tool is the Wedge Light from Edgy Tools. This tool allows us to wedge the door upper channel open and then turn the light on and shine it into the door cavity from the top window opening.
How Does This Help
This tool helps speed up the estimating process so we can see where the damage is located in relation to the internal bracing and sound deadener in the door assembly. Prior to this tool we would have to use a separate wedge and spread the door open then use a smaller flash light and shine it in the door opening. Doing this worked ok, but the wedge light illuminates the entire door in one shot. So now we only need one tool instead of 2. Also the wedge light has an amazing battery and is rechargeable through a USB port. We pulled this out of the box when new and used it for over 9 months without recharging! Now that is awesome!
This video was originally shot LIVE on our Instagram page on 9-8-2020, be sure to follow us there to see more content: https://www.instagram.com/sioux_falls_dent_repair
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