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.
This is a very common question, first off it depends on many factors when calculating a dent repair price. We run everything through a software system called Mobile Tech Rx. This software was designed quite a few years ago now and tailored specifically to the paintless dent repair industry. This software has all of our pricing programed into it. We simply scan the vehicles vin number to auto populate the vehicles info. From there we enter some additional information on the vehicle including mileage and plate number.
The Process
We will ALWAYS inspect your damage using a paintless dent repair light. This is the most crucial step of the entire estimating process, being able to properly see the damage. Then we measure the overall diameter of the damage, then the depth of the dent, which we do have a dent depth gauge that we can use. From there we then assess any factors such as body line dents, the metal the panel is made up of and so on. Then we figure out what we need to take apart, if anything, to remove the damaged area. From there the system comes up with a number and we come up with a price for a paintless dent repair.
Want To See Our Price Guide In Person, Check Out This Video:
This video was originally shot LIVE on our Instagram page on 9-6-2020, be sure to follow us there to see more content: https://www.instagram.com/sioux_falls_dent_repair
Have a dent or ding you would like a Free No Obligations Estimate On?
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.
Who doesn’t like to talk about dents? Ok so maybe not everyone does but we sure do. We were featured on a live dent related live show last night on Youtube and Facebook. Here we talk with Ryan Shutt at RPS Dent Specialist
About The Show
Ryan, the host, has over 19 years in the paintless dent repair industry and has been hosting the Dent Digest show every Thursday live on Facebook and Youtube. We were invited on by Ryan to chat about our Dent Repair Industry. We discussed some newer tools, did a tool giveaway to those that participated in last weeks show suggestions. We also discussed some of our favorite or game changing tools. Our technician Jack Bucknell was on and mentioned some of his favorite tools where his Daniel Gromm 144 blending hammerwith theEndeavorCrown Jewel tips. This hammer also features theEdgy ToolsD-Cup Knockers tip. Jack then went to show his second tool would be his scan tool. He was showcasing the Autel MS906ts Scan tool. With this tool he is able to be compliant and follow the vehicle manufactures required scans that need to be performed on today’s vehicles. This is often an overlooked part of the paintless dent repair industry. Finishing off Jack’s selection for his tools was his camera. Shown is the Canon EOS R with the Canon RF 15-35mm L USM Lens. If you follow him or Sioux Falls Dent Repair on social media you will always see some type of new video and photo related content. Most of the newer videos will be released on the new camera and any live videos are shot on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 plus.
Thanks again to Ryan for having us on his show we really appreciate the invite and it was really fun and packed full of info!
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Back again for another paintless dent repair and here we are going to show you some of our big dent removal techniques on this Dodge Challenger Scat Pack edition. This vehicle was brought to us with some tree limb damage. Yes that is right, a tree company was unfortunately cutting down some tree branches above this car and during the process they fell all over this vehicle. This caused damage all over including the hood, fender, roof, roof rails, trunk lid but today we are focusing on just the quarter panel damage.
What Tools Did We Use?
We started off these repairs by gaining access to the backside by removing the interior trim panels in the trunk. From there we remove the tail light and work through the wiring access hole for the tail light. The first tool we used was actually an Ultra Dent Tools double bend tool with an interchangeable tip and extension. We start off a repair like this with a bigger ball style tip. From there we slowly downsize the tip size to get more precision pushes. Towards the end of the repair the damage actually started to slightly oil can, shown in the video. The panel is very flimsy and movable with just minor pushes with our fingers. We knew we had to tighten the metal up so we started by using some electronic tools.
Electronic Dent Removal?
In this repair towards the end of the repair like stated prior we had to resort to using some electronic style tools for this repair. What we are using is the steel hotbox machine from Betatag. This tool uses electromagnetic heat induction to heat up the panel. We heat up the panel with this tool to a safe temperature that will NOT damage the paint finish. From there we then spray the area with a cold spray. This method of quickly heating the metal and quickly cooling the panel is nothing new to metal workers. What this does is tighten up the molecules in the metal making it shrink. This shrinking action tightens up the metal so it does not remain flexible after the finished repair. Say for instance we DID NOT do this, the panel make at some time be pushed in from say someone leaning on the vehicle or a high pressure car wash for instance. More than likely with this minor stretched metal it will not stick inwords looking like a dent but it could happen so we must take special precautions to prevent this.
Finishing it up
In the end we were able to remove not only this damage but damage all over the vehicle from the tree limbs. We use only the paintless dent repair method for our repairs and no painting, body fillers or primers were used in these repairs. Be sure to Subscribe to our Youtube channel to see other repairs we performed on this vehicle coming soon.
