Vehicle fleet management is crucial for businesses that rely on their cars, trucks, or vans. For delivery services, rental agencies and corporate fleets — appearance of the vehicles now directly reflect upon a brand, which can have operational implications. For fleet vehicles, Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) is an ideal way to transplant those advantages of cost-effectiveness and speed to minimize the time your vehicle will be out of use. Fleet managers are always searching for ways to minimize the cost of operations, and PDR is much more cost-effective compared to the traditional dent repair.
Historically, you have traditionally needed expensive labor, paint and filler, and maybe a new part to fix things. These costs do not exist with PDR as the repair simply involves fixing the metal to its original condition without introducing any new materials. The result of this is lower repair costs, and in a business with 50 vehicles or more, the savings from just keeping transmissions alive translates into big money. PDR can complete any repair for a fraction of the price you would pay at the typical body shop. This is highly advantageous for large fleet businesses as it can help keep the company afloat and profitable.
PDR is also more expedient than conventional auto body repair for one primary reason; the repairs are done quickly. This usually consists of bi or tri-folds which almost always means: bend, fill in with body filler, sand and then repaint followed by the extended periods waiting for the drying. Despite this, an extended downtime often interrupts the service of a fleet by delaying deliveries, solutions or consumer appointments. In comparison, PDR is a fast procedure. There are no re-paint or cure times to worry about, meaning 99% of repairs can be achieved in hours. This equates to minimum downtime for your fleet, and less time vehicles are driven off the road.
Maintaining a Professional Image
When it comes to fleet vehicles, keeping things looking clean and professional is even more important in signaling a company image. Even if a mechanically perfect vehicle with only minor aesthetic damage, customers can see dents and know it as an abused car. PDR not only eliminates the dents itself but also preserves the factory finish of a vehicle, helping fleet vehicles to achieve maximum professional appearance.
When your delivery van, service truck or executive fleet in South Dakota is on the road all day every day, keeping up appearances isn’t only required to build trust with your customers; a professional appearance also helps drive business. Eco-Friendly Aside from the financial and time advantages, PDR is environmentally friendly because there are no chemicals or hazardous materials used, minimizing the carbon footprint of your fleet. PDR is also a green route for businesses, enabling those firms who are ensuring that they go down the sustainable route in business to have an option in choosing PDR.
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Sioux Falls Dent Repair knows fleet managers have specific needs that must be met. Our trained technicians specialize in the rapid, affordable fleet vehicle PDR services. Whether it be a fender bender, hail, door dings or body line dents, we guarantee to have the repairs performed quickly and professionally with minimal disruption to your business operations.
When you choose Sioux Falls Dent Repair, you are not only selecting a service provider … but a partner committed to maintaining high quality fleet appearance while minimizing repair costs and decreasing downtime. Contact them today to find out how PDR can help your fleet.
Dents and dings happen. Often, there’s nothing we can do to stop it. But our Hartford PDR experts have some tricks to protect your car from potential damage. Here are a few ways you car might be placed in harms way without your knowing:
#1: Parking Accidents
Everyone has errands to run, and sometimes it’s on a tight schedule. Parking in the far corner of a lot might mean you have a mild walk ahead of you, but it puts your car miles from danger. Suddenly you don’t need to worry about careless drivers opening their doors, or stray shopping carts wandering into your car.
#2: Kids & Sports
If you live near a lot of kids or something like a park or a golf course then your car might score a nice catch if you’re unlucky. If you can park in a garage then that’s definitely the safest option. It’s also wise to educate children early on the value of something as expensive as a new car. However, this isn’t always in your control.
#3: Automatic Car Washes
The appeal of a 5 minute car wash without ever having to leave your vehicle is very tempting. Just know that you’re giving up some personal control when it comes to the safety of your ride. It might be wiser to give the car a thorough wash yourself.
#4: Slow Impact Fender Benders
Your fender is always the first place to be struck in an accident. If the collision happened at a slow speed then you might leave with only a minor fender bender. Depending on the extent of the damage, our Hartford PDR team can repair your fender no problem!
While these are some of the most common ways dents happen, they aren’t limited to only this list. If you find yourself the unfortunate victim of one of these incidences, our Hartford PDR team can restore your vehicle to its pre-accident condition. Call Sioux Falls Dent Repair today at 605-595-4061 for a free quote!
A pickup box side or also called bedside damage is very common if you use your pickup truck for work or hauling. It’s common for the top upper parts of the bedside to be damaged and to show waves like this seen here in the video. We can remove this type of damage using the Paintless Dent Repair method. With this method of repair, we use specialized tools to slowly massage this damage out from the backside. On bedsides it is common to gain access through the tail light area or to pull a bed cap or cover off(on the top part of the bed) and gain access though there.
All of this damage was repaired at a local body shop for their customer. This type of repair can take a couple hours vs a couple days at a body shop. This gets the customer back on the road the same day and with no repaint of their panel, this saves them for a negative history report on Carfax as well as diminished resale value. So if you have damage in your vehicle that you would like fixed using the Paintless Dent Repair method give us a call!
Today we are working on this all aluminum 2017 Ford F-250 Tailgate. One unknown fact to most people is aluminumisrepairable using paintless dent repair. One thing most people don’t know is that it is much HARDER to not only repair but to also dent as well. When compared to the same dent in steel vs aluminum the damage will be extremely different from the same impact.
In order to gain access to this damage we pulled the top tailgate cap off. This is the upper black trim pad on the top of the tailgate. We also had to pull the inner tailgate trim piece for access as well. After these items are out of the way we then have very good access to push this damage out with our tools.
Can damage in body lines be fixed using the Paintless Dent Repair method?
The answer to that question is, Yes.
Today we are working on this 2017 Chevy Camaro. There are multiple extra special steps we have to take when repairing body line damage. So just because one technician or company says it cannot be done is not necessarily always the case. The damage here is an example of extreme damage on a body line. Here is what the damage looks like under a paintless dent repair light.
Here is some footage mid way through the repair. As you can see we’ve got the body line generally back up into its original spot here. We’ve got a bunch of crown work. It’s a very slow process but we are getting it out. Now for access we are actually fortunate enough to where there is a factory access hole here. We removed a small cover and gain all of the access we need with our tools to push this damage out.
The Grand Finale
We were able to get that body line back out to its original shape without damaging the paint. Luckily this car had absolutely awesome access for where this damage was with the big factory hole we showed you earlier. The majority of this damage, was actually removed by glue pulling. For this we are actually gluing a tab onto the vehicle and pulling the damage out.
Here is a look at the finished results with a paintless dent repair light, it shows a little bit more detail. You can see we were able to get all of that damage out very nicely. Stay tuned in just a second here we’ve got the customers reaction to the repair.
“So this is my Camaro I brought into Jack, had a horrible dent in the rear quarter. This is actually the third car I’ve had Jack fix for me. A lot of people said that there was no way anyone could even get this out, I’d have to go to a body shop to get repainted, I didn’t want to do that. Jack of course he is a magician with this stuff, he got it out and you cannot even tell at all that there was ever a dent there whatsoever. The other two cars I had, same thing, I brought them here and they look like they had just rolled off the showroom floor. I would highly recommend Jack, I would never take my car anywhere else but him if I have a dent in it. He’s great at what he does and I highly recommend him.”
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