Today Jack Bucknell our ARC Master Hail Certified technician at Sioux Falls Dent Repair will be discussing hail damage estimating. This was a Facebook Live video for hail damage estimating. We are a professional auto hail damage repair company located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We have recently had a ton of hail damage repair claims from around the area including the other side of the state in the Black Hills, Rapid City and Spearfish. We wanted to take a moment and discuss how we go about processing all of the damage for repairs.
Should I submit my own photos and videos to my insurance?
No, while your insurance company will need photo documentation in order to process your claim. It is extremely important for you to have your vehicle looked at by a professional with professional lighting in the right conditions. A professional with these conditions will be able to write a much more accurate assessment of your vehicles damage.
How Do Electronic Heat Induction Tools Help Remove Hail Dents?
Hail dents can cause a real amount of damage to a vehicle, and be very annoying to look at, and can even drive the price of your car down by hundreds of dollars, for a good reason: they can be hard to get out. Many times the process of getting dents out can even make the spot look worse, as it leads to mismatched paint jobs and a more noticeable amount of damage. Luckily, Sioux Falls Dent Repair uses a number of methods in order to save your car’s value and its appearance. Sioux Falls Dent repair can repair your dents in a couple of manners, some of which include:
Electronic Heat Induction Tools
Push and Pull Methods
Sioux Falls Dent Repair is the premier paintless dent repair specialist in the Sioux Falls region and the entire surrounding area. We can remove dents of all sizes, including hail damage dents in your vehicle, all without resorting to using any painting or bondo, as more traditional body shops are keen on doing. We utilize special tools in order to push and pull damaged metal out. This includes metals such as steel, high strength steel, and aluminum.
By using our paintless dent repair services, you are enabling your vehicle to retain the superior paint job it received in the factory, and as a result, there will be no color mismatch or peeling paint. Additionally, you won’t have any negative CarFax history report, and there will be no way of detecting that there was ever any damage to your vehicle. Most amazingly, however, is that it only takes a few hours, and you won’t have to leave your car at a body shop for a couple of days.
Electronic Heat Induction Tools
Electronic heat induction tools are typically handheld units that are aimed at making the removal of hail dents and small door dings easier and safer for the vehicle. The tools are designed to be very quick and easy to use, making them highly efficient for body shops, dent repair shops, and even laymen. The appliance generally comes with a number of settings that can be appropriately adjusted depending on the application of it.
It is specifically designed for paintless dent repairs, and it allows paintless dent repair technicians to remove small soft dents by lifting the small soft dent through the magnetic heat induction. “Small soft dents” are dents that don’t leave sharp impressions and don’t have creases. Ideally, these dents come out perfectly within one minute, while others may take a couple of minutes when used in tandem with other paintless dent removal techniques.
Some of these other techniques include glue pulling techniques and the use of traditional paintless dent repair tools. Electronic heat induction tools save time and money for both the technician and the vehicle’s owner, and it always creates a large return on the investment into paintless dent repair, for the owner and technician alike.
You can call or text Sioux Fall Dent Repair today if you have hail damage, dings or dents on your vehicle for a free damage assessment. Call or text 605-250-1023. Let us bring your vehicle back to its original condition.
When people go to sell or trade in their vehicle they often then think do dents affect my cars value? Most often people wait to get their damage repaired because of resale value. We get it, most people are willing to live with their minor damage and drive their vehicle as is. When it comes to selling it they want to get the highest price for their vehicle.
How Can You Get The Highest Price For Your Vehicle?
Either you’re selling your vhielce private sale or trading your vehicle in, dents and dings DOimpact the vehicles resale value. Even minor dents and dings can give the buyer leverage to negotiate to get you to lower your price. If your vehicle has no damage like this there will be less for them to fall back on and state something like, “It’s going to cost me x to get this fixed, why don’t we take that off of the price?” This is not something most people want to hear.
Don’t give your vehicle buyers any more leverage to lower your price, be sure to get your dents and dings fixed BEFORE you put your vehicle on the market!
Do you have questions about some damage in your vehicle? Maybe you just want a free quote? We would be happy to look over your vehicle for you and give you a damage assessment for you.
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?
Also referred to as paintless dent removal or PDR, paintless dent repair restores a vehicle’s body to factory-like condition using an environmentally-friendly repair method at a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time compared to a traditional auto body shop. Also, PDR can be used to remove hail damage and body creases, as well as dents and dings from vehicles. There are four primary processes involved in the paintless dent repair, and they are:
Assessing the damage
Gaining access to the dent
Getting a close examination of the dent
Application of the slow pressure to work out the dent
Sioux Fall Dent Repair specializes in paintless dent repair services, and the company will give your vehicle a professional PDR treatment, whether your car has a dent from a small collision or large dents.
There are techniques and processes involved in PDR. With Sioux Fall Dent Repair, several vehicles have been restored to their original factory condition by any of its certified technicians without compromising the wallet of a consumer or the original painted finish of a vehicle.
For Sioux Fall Dent Repair to restore the vehicle to their pre-damage condition, you may continue reading to know how Sioux Fall Dent Repair has been using paintless dent repair for these purposes.
Assessing the Damage
The first step to any process of repair is to assess the damage. Experts will first locate the spot of the dent, whether they are large dents and how they will get to the dent. Then, the professionals working with Sioux Fall Dent Repair will prepare the area around the dent for the repair after they have assessed the damage and determined whether they can remove it effectively using PDR.
Gaining Access to the Dent
Usually, the requirement by PDR for accessing is through the backside of the dent, that is, professionals carefully remove interior panels, taillights, and panels. Also, you need a pathway to the dent for them to perform PDR. Then, it will be time to perform the PDR when you have access to a dent. It is when the experts at Sioux Fall Dent Repair use their expertise and precision come into play.
Getting a Close Examination of the Dent
For any certified technician at Sioux Fall Dent Repair to have a better look at the offending dent from their point of view, they make use of a special light board. With this board showing a shadow the dent’s shadow, the technicians will know the exact place to place tools on the back end of the dent so they can massage the body back to its original condition.
Application of the Slow Pressure to Work Out the Dent
Now, for them to carefully massage the exterior back to its original position, they make use of unique tools. And depending on the severity of the dent, the process of PDR can be completed within the same day. And considering how quick and non-invasive the process is, the results are quite amazing.
You can consult Sioux Fall Dent Repair today if you have dings or dents on your vehicle, and you can be sure of getting a fantastic result when they bring your vehicle back to its original condition.
