Dent Repair on Your EV with an IMI Accredited Technician is a Must
Your electric vehicle is less likely to get into accidents because of all the computerized sensors it has. However, accidents don’t always occur when the car’s on the road. Sometimes, they can occur even when you’re car is carefully parked in the driveway. Dent and dings on electric vehicles hurt your wallet a lot more than dents on a normal car. What’s more concerning is that there are very few auto-repair shops with IMI accredited technicians to help your electric vehicle.
Read on as we tell you how you can save money on dent repair through paintless dent repair and why IMI accredited technicians are the best choice for you.
What Is PDR?
Paintless Dent Repair or PDR is a non-invasive method of fixing dents and dings on your electric vehicle. It’s a method that auto-technicians prefer due to the ease with which they can do it. It doesn’t involve any extra paint or extra material, which is why it’s so popular. It doesn’t involve any cutting or scrapping of metal and thus saves both you and the auto-technicians a significant amount of time.
How Does it Work?
The PDR process is fairly simple. You bring the car into the auto-shop. Your accredited IMI technician will look at the dent or dent if they’re more than one to assess how many of them, they can perform PDR on. They will then give you an estimate based on this assessment. After you’ve consented to the estimate and the procedure, the certified technician will get to work. The procedure involves the use of special tools and techniques acquired through years of experience to pop out the dents on the body of your electric vehicle. Once they’ve done this, they further look into the body of the vehicle to ensure that they’re not missing anything. Once they’ve done this, you can pay and have your car back in your garage.
Benefits of PDR
There are many advantages to this process, and we have listed some of them below:
1. It helps retain your car’s value
Paintless Dent Repair doesn’t involve any extra material, which means that your car’s value will not depreciate based on this procedure.
2. Insurance companies cover PDR.
Your electric vehicle is already going to be heavy on your wallet for other reasons. Since insurance companies cover PDR, you don’t have to worry about paying for this procedure out of your wallet.
3. They’re environmentally friendly
Paintless Dent Repair doesn’t involve any wastage by scrapping material. It doesn’t use paint which means that no harmful chemicals are released into the environment.
Why Choose Sioux Falls Dent Repair for Your EV needs?
Sioux Falls has IMI accredited technicians who have years of experience with electric vehicles. We have worked on the bodies of cars like Tesla Model 3, Tesla Model X, Nissan Leaf, Audi e-Tron, or EV Ford Mustang.
You must take your electric vehicle to certified IMI accredited technicians for many reasons. We have listed a few of them below:
1. It’ll cost you less
IMI accredited technicians know what they’re doing and thus are likely to botch the job.
2. You’ll get quality of service.
IMI accredited technicians train for years so that they can achieve finesse, you’ll get the best work possible.
3. They are reliable.
Since they’re accredited and claim to be too, they’re held to a higher standard. This standard means that you can rely on them to put the best work forward.
Here at Sioux Falls Dent Repair, our main priority is the customer. Don’t believe us? Come on down to our shop and let us sort you out.
People work hard to earn the nice things they own, including luxury cars.
Luxury cars are expensive and require a large chunk of money for most people. The same is true for luxury car owners in Sioux Falls, and it is completely understandable you would want to extend your car’s life and resale so it retains its value.
This means preserving its body and functions for as long as possible. However, this is easier said than done because even luxury cars, on the roads of South Dakota, are bound to catch dents and dings now and then.
Lucky for you, paintless dent repair (PDR) is here to preserve the body and resale value of your luxury cars. Although, you should be careful only to let certified PDR technicians, like those at Sioux Falls Dent Repair, perform PDR on your luxury cars.
Removing Dents from Your Luxury Cars
Removing dents and dings from your luxury cars should only be handled by professionals, and you cannot risk amateurs messing things up. Hence, you should look for licensed or certified PDR technicians when your car experiences damage from dents and dings.
PDR techniques allow dents and dings to be repaired in the fastest, most economic, and non-invasive way possible. It does not use body fillers, scrapping, or painting of any kind and simply restores your car to its original form.
Such dent repairs are invaluable to luxury car owners because they preserve the original paint coat of their cars and hence their resale value.
However, paintless dent repair is an intricate dent repair process that requires skilled experts to use the latest PDR tools and techniques to carefully push and pull the dents out of your luxury car. It is a process you can only trust experienced certified PDR technicians to perform.
If your luxury car receives dents and dings, you should opt for the paintless dent repair services of Sioux Falls Dent Repair.
Why Sioux Falls Dent Repair for PDR?
Sioux Falls Dent Repair has the best certified PDR technicians in all of South Dakota. Their professionals provide the best PDR results for luxury cars, owing to their vast experience in dent repairs on all types of luxury cars, including brands like:
Their customers always leave satisfied and return for any future dents and dings that need fixing.
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Today, we will be discussing a common question we get. Will this dent pop out?
Warning: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!
We will be working on a 2014 Acura MDX R. The car came in with quite a big dent on the front right side fender and we’re going to use the Paintless Dent Repair method to get the damage out. Before we can get working on the fender with our tools, we have to remove the wheel well liner. This will give us the access we need to get our tools in and work on the dent and damage better. In these kinds of repairs, it works out best if we have multiple points of access so we can give the customers our best work. We did inform the owner of the car that we would be removing the front bumper as well as the headlight.
We actually started the repair by heating up the damaged surface and then pushing the majority of the dent out by hand. Now, you guys shouldn’t try this at home because it can cause the paint to crack and even peel off, leave it alone and don’t damage the panel even further! Once the dent is pushed out by hand, we can use our PDR tools to get out the smaller damage and remove the crowns and waves and all of the small imperfections to make this a true repair.
As you can see, the repair takes a lot longer than you might think and we here at Sioux Falls Dent Repair ensure that your car will look as good as new when we’re done with it.
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Today, we’ll be taking a look at a 2016 Chevrolet Equinox in need of a big dent removal, this has a pretty bad door dent in it. As you can see, the damage is quite severe and starts all the way near the top of the door and goes through the body line. There is even a bit of damage towards the bottom of the door which we will have to get rid of.
Starting Off, Cold Glue
To get some of the dent out from the door, we will be using a product called Cold Glue and it is available from Glexo. The Cold Glue tab is fastened to the Slide Hammer that we use here in the Sioux Falls Dent Repair shop and the tab is then applied to the damaged area. By simply pulling the Slide Hammer back and forth a few times, we can get some of the damage out.
Next, we switch over to hot glue pull tabs – something used quite commonly in the PDR world. The tabs we’re using for this job is from Black Plague and it is from the Ice Tab series. We’ll be using the Elim A Dent glue gun with Cam Auto Glue to pull out some of the remaining damage. The glue takes a little longer to dry, but it offers a better and stronger pull. To pull on the glue tab, we’ll be using the KECO K-Bar which gives us a lot of leverage when it comes to pulling on tabs and getting out dents.
With the help of the PDR lights, you can see how all that pulling got rid of the majority of that large dent in the door. Once we finish working on the door from the front, we can then remove the door, door panel and start pushing out the damage from the back. We also have to remove the glass, the reason being is this glass is special to this type of vehicle, find out what’s different about this glass by Clicking Here. After we remove the door panel, we gain a lot more access to the back of the door panel and this lets us push out the remaining damage with our tools.
After removing the door and placing it under the PDR lights, we can see how much of the damage is still left and we can then figure out the kind of tools we would require for the job. Moving over to the lower side of the door, we have to hammer down the damage with a special tool. It takes a multiple hits and quite a bit of time to get the damage out 100%, but it is still faster than taking the car to a body shop.
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Today we are removing some damage in a 2018 Ford Edge using paintless dent repair. This damage is in the right rear door and is very extreme damage. The damage is on a body line and very deep and has a bunch of displaced metal all around the area. In order to remove this damage we had to use a heat gun and apply a constant 160-180 degrees when pushing out the last little bit of this damage.
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