Dents and dings are common when you drive around on the busy roads of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Most often, accidents are minor, and you get away with your paint intact. This is because the metal gets busted, but the paint typically remains unaffected.
Such dents and dings are ideal for paintless dent repair (PDR) from a trusted PDR service like Sioux Falls Dent Repair, but what about when dents or dings have paint damage?
Can You Repair a Dent with Paint Damage on Cars?
Yes, of course. You can repair dents and dings with paint damage; however, they will not be repaired through the PDR process. PDR is the best solution for dents, dings, bumps, fender benders, bodyline damage, and hail damage repair.
Although, if your dents and dings have scrapes, abrasions, or the paint is chipped, peeling, cracked, or bubbling, PDR cannot fix such paint damage. Even some very sharp dents and creases may not be suitable for PDR because the metal and paint may be stretched on such dents.
You will have to rely on traditional dent repair methods for such dents, dings, and creases because PDR does not involve any paint; therefore, it cannot fix paint damage.
Does It Need to Go to a Body Shop?
If your dents and dings have paint damage, you will have to take your car to a body shop for traditional dent repair. This means that the body shop technicians may remove, scrape, fill, and repaint the damaged body parts to fix dents and dings with paint damage.
However, if you’re unsure about where to go, which body shop to trust, or whether your dents and dings need traditional dent repair or PDR, Sioux Falls Dent Repair is always here to help. You can consult their PDR-certified technicians, and they can guide you about which dent repair method is best for your dents and dings.
Moreover, they can refer you to some of the best body shops and traditional dent repair technicians in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Being experts in the PDR field, they have a wide network of professional technicians who can repair all sorts of dents, dings, and creases for the best results.
Why Sioux Falls Dent Repair?
Sioux Falls Dent Repair should be your first option for any dents, dings, or creases, regardless of whether there is any paint damage involved. This is because PDR is your best option, and the expert PDR-certified technicians can tell you exactly which dent repair to opt for and how you’ll get the best results.
While PDR does not repair paint damage, there are exceptions, and it all depends on the dents and dings. Getting expert consultation will help you get the best dent repairs for your car. You never know; your dents and dings may just be repairable through PDR.
If not, Sioux Falls Dent Repair will refer you to the best alternative solutions like a trusted body shop.
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We get calls for dent repairs with paint damage. Dents of all sizes can get paint damage, from a small door ding, to bigger damage even hail damage dents can cause paint damage. Yes we can fix this type of damage but before we do there are some things you should know.
We do not do any painting with our repair process, but we do offer touch up paint services.
We are happy to refer you to some local body shops for your repair needs if needed.
Often times we can remove the dent even if there is paint damage BUT if you are then looking at having your vehicle repainted afterwords it is sometimes not the most cost effective to have paintless dent repair performed AND have the area repainted.
This can be determined with an in person estimate.
Types of Paint Damage
Multiple types of paint damage can happen. Some of the types of damage are:
A crack
A chip
Scratch
All of these types of damages range from just minor surface or clear coat damage, all the way to deep damage down to the metal.
Cracked Paint Damage
Here is a short video showing some damage that we repaired using the paintless dent repair method. This damage had just a very small crack in the paint and just some minor clear coat could be applied to seal up the area, which is what the customer choose to do themselves. This is the least noticeable type of paint damage and soemtimes the customer doesnt even know there was a minor crack until we point it out to them when doing an estimate.
We often see hail storm damage crack paint when it hits in certain areas, like edges of panels. When hail stones hit right on the edge of a panel and forces the exterior panel to hit an inner edge structure of a panel it can often crack the exterior panels paint. This damage shown below was caused from a hail storm. This hail stone hit the top frame of a door on this 2o19 all aluminum Ford F150. The impact push the exterior metal inwards and into the inner structure bracing, causing the paint crack.
In this case a body shop is needed to complete this repair. We helped minimize work for the body shop in this repair by using our glue pulling method to pull this damage out for the body shop so they do not have to use any body fillers or bondo to fill this damaged area. After we pulled out the damaged area all the body shop needs to do now is sand the area down flat to remove the damaged paint area then apply primer to smooth the area out then paint the panel.
Paintless Dent Repair Aluminum Ford F150 – Sioux Falls South Dakota
Deep Scratches
Sometimes when damage is caused in a vehicle the paint is scratched. Sometimes the impact item can scratch all the way through the layers of paint all the way down the to bare metal! In this video example this customer was about to turn his leased Infiniti back into the dealership. We discussed with him his damage and brought up that he should do some research on what type of damage is ok to be in his vehicle when it is turned in. Lease agreements often have certain things the dealership will NOT charge you for.
Do you have similar damage on your vehicle or have other questions?
