Fast and affordable, PDR can remove dings and dents, but also hails damage and body creases. This procedure consists from four main steps:. Assess the extent of the damage 2. Create entry to the dent 3. Careful examination of the dent 4. Apply light pressure and work out the dent slowly but surely. In order to fix it, you have to examine the dent and to determine its size, its location, and how easy you can get to it.
Some dents on body lines on a quarter panel end up being too sharp or complex in nature to be removed and for the fender to be restored to its original shape. In cases like these, body filler will need to be applied to the panel and your vehicle will have to be repaired with the traditional auto body repair process. The roof of a vehicle is a large horizontal surface and is often prone to getting dents from things falling on it like hail, baseballs, and even sometimes fruit!
Luckily, most roof dents are completely repairable with the PDR process. Hail damage and other roof dents from round objects falling on them can generally be removed as they do not damage your paint or severely deform the panel.
In some cases, where a tree branch, a rock, or a heavy object has fallen on your roof, the dent may be too severe to be repaired with PDR. In these extreme cases, your vehicle will need body filler to be applied or even a new roof. Although it may seem like your paint has nothing to do with removing a dent from a metal or aluminum body panel, it actually has a lot to do with it and what the limits of the PDR process are! As we previously mentioned, automotive paint has an elastic limit of how much it can stretch before cracking occurs.
Some paints are more flexible than others and can sustain a larger, more severe dent before the paint is damaged or disturbed. The cool thing about modern automotive paint is that it provides more than just aesthetic value. It does a lot more than just make your vehicle look pretty!
It acts as a protective layering and has many desirable properties. Most water based acrylic polyurethane enamel paints have great elastic properties and are still very environmentally friendly.
Some older automotive paints do not have the same elasticity or resilience that modern automotive paints. Some exceptions do exist to this rule, though. Some modern vehicles use more brittle paints and clear coats that can cause paint to be less elastic than water based acrylic polyurethane enamel paints.
In cases like this, the panel simply needs to be repainted. Generally speaking, most metals and alloy body panels can be repaired with the paintless dent repair process. This is because these types of panels can be shaped with manual tools, are malleable, and have a metal memory, as discussed above. There are some body panels that are made of different materials with good reason, but they cannot be repaired with the paintless dent repair process. Things like plastic bumpers, fibreglass fenders, carbon fibre hoods, and composites cannot be repaired with the paintless dent repair process.
This is because most of these materials are unlikely to dent to begin with. Although plastic bumpers and doors sometimes sustain dents that can be popped out easily, these panels cannot be fixed with PDR as they do not have a metal memory like other panels. When damaged, plastic panels are normally just discarded and replaced. Things like bumpers, trim, and other plastic parts of your vehicle will need to be ordered from a dealership or auto body shop.
When it comes to more brittle materials like fibreglass or carbon fibre, the materials are more likely to crack or split when damaged and do not dent. If this is the case, they will need to be repaired with filler or professionally by another specialist. Almost any vehicle can be repaired with PDR. As long as the vehicle is constructed with one of the repairable materials that were listed above, they can be repaired with the paintless dent repair process. The PDR technicians at Dented have repaired it all!
When it comes to cars, we have worked on coupes, sedans, wagons, high end sports cars, and more. We love pulling dents out of beautiful cars and restoring them to their original condition. We have worked on many different types of larger passenger vehicles to remove dents as well. Whether your vehicle has a unibody construction or body on frame, we can remove dents from your vehicle and make it look as good as the day you first drove it home.
Different vehicles come with different complexities, but they can all almost certainly be repaired with paintless dent repair so long as the damage is not too severe. This basically means that the metal has a tendency to want to return to its original shape. The problem with larger dents is that sometimes the metal can become stretched. This is normally what has happened if your paint has started to crack. In these cases, it will no longer want to return to its original shape as it has been given a new memory.
When a dent has a sharp ridge, creasing, or anything that looks like it could cause the metal to twist or tear, the metal has almost certainly been stretched. This is why these cases make it extremely difficult to repair with the PDR process. Panels like this often require body filler or replacement to make the panel appear as if it still retains its original shape. Many of our customers wonder how the paintless dent repair damage assessment process works.
The first step in the assessment process is to look closely at the dent and determine the severity of the damage. Ugly dents and dings detract from your car's appearance, but restoring its good looks may not require a lengthy, expensive visit to an auto body shop.
Whether you have hail damage or a single football-sized indent, as long as the paint isn't chipped or cracked, paintless dent repair PDR may be an option that can save you time and money. With PDR, the goal is to push the indented metal back into shape while preserving the factory paint. First, a technician determines the best way to access the damaged area either through a window opening or by removing trim pieces or inner panels. Then, using specialized tools, the technician starts at the dent's outer edge and slowly massages the metal back into position.
The damaged area gets progressively smaller until it virtually disappears. Erasing damage from a car without performing in-depth bodywork takes skill and precision, so it's vital to choose a reputable, experienced auto body shop for the job. You've made good progress so far, and a casual observer wouldn't even notice the flawed area.
But it's not exactly perfect, and since it's been fairly easy to this point, you decide to keep massaging the area to make it flawless. After a few more minutes of massaging, you realize that you've pushed it just a little too far. And now you've got this flabby area on the hood where you stretched out the metal. And there's no easy way to shrink it back down. Keep going and it'll stretch even more. Lesson learned. A good paintless dent repair might look perfect, or close to it,but the metal underneath that shiny paint is still damaged.
It's thinned out and its structure has been weakened. But as long as the paint is still there and it's not immediately obvious, that's probably good enough. After all, it's not a safety concern or anything. Just remember: Sometimes it really pays to hire a pro. I've never tried to use an at-home paintless dent removal kit to bang one out myself; however, I have owned a car that I had completely repainted because paintless dent removal wasn't an option.
And it's a pain in the butt. And it's expensive. And I've also made some bad calls in terms of judging what I can handle myself That said, I've never bought a product from an infomercial to attempt a car repair. In other words, this article certainly isn't intended to serve as advice for whether or not you should attempt to repair dings and dents in your own garage. I'd normally suggest practicing a new procedure Sign up for our Newsletter!
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