Finding car dents can be an incredibly frustrating experience, knowing that your vehicle’s been damaged and you now have to seek dent repairs.
Whether due to small impacts, denting a car door in a parking lot, or other situations, many situations cause minor dents and dings.
These may seem like small issues, but it’s important to have this damage fixed and your car’s value restored.
It’s best to repair your car from dents as quickly as possible, but what’s the best way to do that? There are multiple techniques available to repair dents, so let’s review the potential options.
Paintless Dent Removal
Paintless dent removal, which is also known as PDR, is a technique in removing dents that is very effective at removing small dents in a vehicle.
Essentially, it works by using specialized tools and techniques to push, pull and massage out dents from the outer body of a vehicle. This process involves patiently reshaping the metal to remove the dent in its entirety.
The name, paintless dent removal, comes from the fact that you don’t need to repaint the body of a vehicle with this method. PDR restores the value of your vehicle, because repainting your car lowers its value. That’s because modern automotive paints are incredibly durable, flexible and are guaranteed to protect the metal exterior of your vehicle for years.
Maintaining the factory finish paint is extremely important, which is why PDR is a superior technique to fix dents when performed by a certified PDR technician.
When performed by a professional PDR specialist, PDR is a superior approach for repairing dents since it preserves the factory finish paint.
Tradition Filling Method
Most traditional dent repairs were completed by a method of filling in the dent, rather than pushing out the dent. First and foremost, the issue with this method is that it doesn’t fix the damage, but is an attempt to fix the vehicle’s appearance.
To fill in the dent, the technician must first scrape away the old paint, then repaint over the filler material.
This imperfect method can deliver inferior results, not to mention the quality, color match, and durability of the new paint are not guaranteed.
Completely Replacing the Panel
In the case of serious large dents with paint damage, the panel may instead need a full replacement when the first two methods are unsuitable. This is a method of last resort when it isn’t practical or possible to use PDR or conventional filling as a technique.
Having non-original body pieces can diminish the total worth of your vehicle, much as removing current automotive paintwork and repainting lowers the value of your automobile. Furthermore, selecting exterior panels that match the color of your vehicle’s paint might be costly.
At the end of the day, the paintless dent removal technique is usually the best option you have available to you, as it maintains your valuable factory-finish modern automotive paint.
Experts will tell you that 80-90% of dents can be repaired using PDR. That means you likely won’t have to worry about other techniques, though it is still important to remain aware of the possible alternative options. If you need an expert to assess the damage and give you an estimate for paintless dent removal, contact Ted’s Dent Works today!
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