While we might not always be willing to admit it outright, outward appearances are important to us. We want to look our best, and the vehicles we drive are very effective in making a memorable first impression. To maintain their appearance, we wash, wax, and do our best to ensure their cosmetic appearance. Then…it happens. A ding, dent, or abrasion compromises the integrity of our automobile’s appearance. From golf balls to shopping carts, these can occur when we least suspect them. In the past, having them fixed meant leaving your car at a body shop for several days while the dents were pounded out and the affected areas painted over by a color that might not come close to matching the original. But now, there’s a better way.

A Better Way for Body Work

This better way to remove those golf-ball-shaped dents is what’s known as paintless dent removal (PDR). Rather than use harmful chemicals that strip the paint and attack the dent from the surface of the vehicle, PDR is a process in which the vehicle’s exterior panels are removed, and the dent is smoothed out with a series of special tools from behind. This leaves your paint job intact. This means that the dents in your vehicle can be removed in a matter of hours instead of days.

The Advantages of Paintless Dent Removal

The advantages of paintless dent removal are several. Besides taking much less time for repair to be completed, you also help contribute to an environmentally friendly process. The process of removing paint, sanding, and hammering also means generating a lot of waste and using harmful chemicals that aren’t always properly disposed of. Paintless dent removal reduces waste and is performed without the use of chemical compounds. You’ll also notice that paintless dent removal will help you maintain the resale value of your car and keep certain warranty coverages intact. Your vehicle’s residual value is based on any alterations, such as a paint job, and some warranties that cover corrosion damage are voided when one is applied to the vehicle in question. It’s a process that everyone benefits from, so much the better.

Dent Shop Redlands

If you’re in the Redlands area and have a few dings and dents that need to be removed, trust the experts at Dent Shop to utilize their skilled hands and apply paintless dent removal to your vehicle. For more information, give our team a call today at 909-300-5006.

Sadly, there is a long list of ways your car can receive an ugly dent (or several of them, making it impossible to hide). We’ve seen it all at the Dent Shop, which sometimes is a testament to how much chaos roams our vehicles.

Fear not, however, because these issues have a resolution, provided your car has only superficial dent damage. Our paintless dent repair (PDR) can iron out a lot of damages much quicker/cheaper than the typical automotive repair places.

• Shallow Dents – These are among the most common ones we see in our shop. They normally come from folks getting a little careless when they open the car door next to you. Many of these damages do not involve scraping off paint, so they’re an easy fix for us.
• Round Dents – How do you get those perfectly round dents on the hood or roof of your car? Well, if you’ve ever left your vehicle out during a hail storm, you know exactly what causes those.
• Long Dents – These occur when you run into something sharp or suffer a significant collision. Many large dents don’t involve paint damage, so our tools can handle them.
• Animals – Your vehicle is vulnerable to woodpeckers, squirrels, stray cats/dogs, and deer. We even get clients who come to us with lots of hood damage after colliding into a deer.
• Pavement Rocks – Loose pavement rocks are a threat to your windshield and can cause dents anywhere. This can also happen if a large truck (carrying rocks or granules) doesn’t secure their tow properly, and lets those small projectiles all over the place in front of you.
• Grocery Store Carts – You should always park away from the store to avoid loose grocery store carts. People will leave them anywhere. You might never realize what happened when you exit the store and find dents on your doors or bumper.
• Tree Branches – These can be huge and dangerous to your vehicle or anything else you park underneath them. It’s always safer to keep your car in a garage or at least away from trees.

• Resolve These Dents & Damages with PDR at Dent Shop

  Again, don’t let these mishaps discourage you. There is a way to address these issues more often than not. Our talented crew can twist out those dents without costing a fortune on fresh paint, bondo, filler, or other expensive items.

  Dent Shop Redlands can make small and large dents a thing of the past with our effective tools and our wherewithal to use them well. That last part is important because we see all too many car owners try to “DIY” the PDR process, only to walk away with a bigger mess on their hands.

  Call us anytime at 909-300-5006 to rediscover why we’re the professionals when it comes to fixing an array of difficult exterior damages.

Have you ever found a dent on your car and thought “C’mon, I can get that out by myself”?

While we can appreciate folks wanting to take charge and find solutions, it’s better to leave this stuff to the pros. We’ve seen the “DIY” approach to dent repair make things worse far too many times. Instead, here are a few reasons to avoid doing it yourself, and let us fix everything faster with paintless dent repair.

Paintless Dent Repair is a Specialized Task (and requires training)

Yes, it’s remarkable what skills you can build from watching YouTube tutorials these days. However, dent repair is as much an art as it is a science. If you make a mistake, you could over-fix the dent and create a different problem on the other side of the panel. Dent repair requires practice and technique, and your expensive SUV may not be the best place to learn the ropes.

You Might Damage the Paint

The whole point of calling it a “paintless” repair service hinges upon the fact that we neither alter, nor inflict damage onto the car paint. So, even though there are DIY kits for paintless dent repair, they don’t have the best equipment in the world. One false move with a suction tool could leave with you an even more expensive repair from paint damage you didn’t originally have.

Keep Your Manufacturer Warranty

In the world of contract repair services, we deal with warranty terms and conditions all the time. Nothing voids a warranty faster than invasive DIY repairs. As soon as you attempt to do your own service work, all bets are off, thereafter.

You Can Use Insurance to Cover it

The typical paintless dent repair job runs between $250 to $450, but sometimes it may be higher for severe damages in difficult locations. Fortunately, it is possible to use vehicular insurance to pay for it sometimes.

Come to the Dent Shop to Get it Done Faster

One of the perks of our service is that we can normally do it with a same-day turnaround time. If you decide to handle it yourself, you’ll first have to read or watch tutorials, then slowly attempt to fix the problem (hopefully, without making it worse). It’s more efficient and far less risky to take it to the Dent Shop and rely on our years of experience handling any small, medium, and large dents.

Those are five good reasons to choose our paintless dent repair service in Redlands, California, versus fixing it yourself.

Dent Shop Redlands can fix any dents on your car, truck, or SUV without needing a new paint job. This works well after hail storms, fender benders, rear-end collisions, and other frustrating mishaps. Find out how you can resolve those unsightly dents without visiting an expensive auto body shop by calling us today at 909-300-5006.