How Does Paintless Dent Repair Work?

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When your car becomes a victim of dents and dings, where do you call? Who do you ask for advice?

Paintless Dent Removal (PDR) has been growing in popularity because more and more vehicle owners are finding it to be an effective and superior alternative to getting minor repairs done at a body shop. PDR offers more “bang for your buck” than traditional body shop repair methods and is a great way to care for the condition of your vehicle’s exterior. 

PDR has been performed in car manufacturing plants for decades, the technique became more popular in the early 1980s once PDR was introduced to North America. Since then, several local competitors have made some headway in the marketplace, but Transcendent Paintless remains the leading solution for Paintless Dent Removal on the Gulf Coast. 

WHAT IS PAINTLESS DENT REMOVAL?

Traditional body shop dent repair fills the dents in with paint or body filler aka BONDO, which is then matched to the rest of the vehicle’s exterior. While this process can make a vehicle look decent for a while, it doesn’t address the actual dent in a way that is a sustainable, long-term solution. It’s also time-consuming, expensive and can impact the re-sale value of your vehicle.

With Paintless Dent Repair, there are no fillers and there is no sanding. PDR is an environmentally friendly green repair method that restores your vehicle’s body to factory-like condition in a fraction of the time with better results. You keep you factory finish. PDR can be used to remove dings and dents from vehicles, as well as body creases and hail damage. Factories spend millions of dollars on automated robot machines that paint and cure the finish to an extremely high quality. This is IMPOSSIBLE to replicate in a local body shop. Joe Schmo painter at John Doe Paint and Body is no match for a robot. Watch a car be painted at the factory.

Each day, our technicians safely restore vehicles to their original factory condition without compromising a vehicle’s original painted finish. 

Read on to learn how Transcendent’s paintless dent removal process, which we have perfected as a family since 1995, works to restore vehicles to their pre-damage condition.

HOW DOES PAINTLESS DENT REMOVAL WORK: OUR STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS

Assess the Damage

The first step to any repair process is to assess the damage. Where is the dent? How big is the dent? How do we get to the dent? After assessing the damage, and determining it can be effectively removed through PDR (as 80-90% of all dents are), we prepare the area around the dent for the repair. 

Gain Entry to The Dent

In most cases, PDR requires you to access the back side of the dent, which sometimes means carefully removing body panels, tail lights, or in some cases, interior panels. To perform PDR, you need a pathway to the dent. 

Once we have access to a dent, it’s time to perform the repair. This is where the many hours of training, patience and expertise of our trained technicians comes into play.

Get A Better Look at the Dent

Transcendent uses a special LED light board to give our technician a better look at the dent from their point-of-view. The board displays a shadow of the dent, telling us where to precisely place tools on the back end of the dent to push and massage the body back to its original shape. 

Apply Slow Pressure to Work out the Dent

Special tools are then utilized to carefully push and massage the exterior back to its original position. 

The PDR process can usually be completed with same day service, depending on a dent’s severity, and the results are incredible; even more so considering how non-invasive and quick the process really is. 

Transcendent’s method is often imitated, but never duplicated. All of our technicians are internationally certified by PDR Nation and participate in a rigorous in-house training course that takes months to complete. When you choose paintless dent removal from Transcendent Paintless, you know you are partnering with the most trusted source for PDR on the Gulf Coast. 

Want to see how paintless dent removal works with your own eyes? View the entire process step-by-step in this video: 

How to Avoid Door Dents and Protect Your Car When Parking

 

Dings and dents can happen just about anywhere on a vehicle. If you own a vehicle, chances are you have had to deal with these unfortunate, all-too-common occurrences. New cars are a magnet for dents!

You want to protect your investment, but a vast majority of dings and dents aren’t your fault. They can come in the form of a mysterious door ding after you return from shopping or a hail storm your Weather Man or Lady didn’t predict. 

If you take care of your car, it will take care of you, but sometimes, the unexpected happens. 

You have to prepare for the worst and know how to protect your car from door dings and other common damages. 

Protect your car by by knowing the common causes of dents, where they can occur on your vehicle and what you can do to prevent them from happening in the first place.
 

PROTECT YOUR CAR FROM DOOR DINGS AND GENERAL BODY DAMAGE
 

Remember that car you parked next to and thought it was hugging the line a little tight? While you were in the grocery store they opened their door and…BOOM! Now the side of your car has a large dent in it. Just thinking of the sound makes one cringe!

Door dings can be caused by a number of things. Other drivers in parking lots, runaway shopping carts that weren’t corralled properly, opening your door too fast next to another vehicle or even the kids playing baseball in the yard. 
 

For this reason, prevention is key. You can proactively do a few things to protect your vehicle’s body from car dents. 
 

HOW TO PREVENT CAR DENTS FROM HAPPENING
 

Dents may be part of the territory of vehicle ownership, but can be avoided in many cases, by being more cautious and aware of your surroundings. 

• Park Away From Other Vehicles

Parking further away to prevent car dents is essential (Thanks Captain Obvious!), but people are constantly looking for convenience. Get away from the crowd and give yourself a few spaces on each side. Set the tone inside the lines for everyone else, and get some exercise in while you’re at it! But for the love of all that is good and holy, don't take up 2 spaces... You're just asking for vandalism.
 

• Open Your Door Slowly

You’re excited to get where you’re going, but it’s important to be aware of everything around you. Whether it be a curb, a railing at a gas pump, another vehicle or even a wall. Slowly opening your car door is a great way to avoid unexpected door dings. 
 

• Educate Your Kids around the Vehicle

Kids, more often than not, don't mean to do damage. They don’t always understand how much your vehicle costs, or how big of a deal a ding or two can be. Teach them to be careful entering and exiting the vehicle in parking lots or at home, and not to play with balls, bikes and other toys around the car. 

PREVENT CAR DENTS CAUSED BY HAIL
 

Hail damage is the most “natural” cause of car dents, because after all, you can’t control the weather. Hail damage, for insurance companies, is considered an “act of God” and does not fall under your basic coverage. 

It is typically considered a comprehensive claim, and filing a single hail damage claim in many cases, won’t make your premiums go up. Hail damage just isn’t something you can be considered at fault for, unless you abuse your coverage and file multiple "hail" claims a year. 

The most common areas where hail damage occurs include your hood, roof, trunk and even windshields. While hail can be pea or marble sized, it can grow as large as a softball or larger, and that can cause serious damage to your vehicle. 

PROTECT YOUR CAR FROM HAIL DAMAGE

No, you can’t predict the weather, but you can take steps to avoid filing a hail damage claim if you're area is under threat of a storm.

• Use Covered Parking

If you have a garage, use it! It is the best way to protect your car. There are many benefits of covered parking, including protection from hail storms that can come with costly deductibles. 

In the winter, parking in a garage keeps ice and snow off of your vehicle, so you have a warmer car in the morning and gets you on the road quicker. Garage parking also keeps your vehicle out of direct sunlight, which over time, can fade the appearance of leather or other aspects of your interior because of UV damage. 

Parking outside of the elements is the number one way to avoid hail and prevent car dents caused by it. 
If you dont have a garage, park under a gas station or car wash over-hang when possible. if you are driving on the interstate, try and get under an over-pass.

 • Cover Your Vehicle

If you don’t have the luxury of garage parking, a quality vehicle cover is the next best thing. From basic $50 options (you get what you pay for) to $500 near apocalypse proof covers that claim to stop 10 softball sized hail stones at “terminal velocity”, there are plenty of products designed to protect your vehicle from hail or flying debris. 

• Get Comprehensive Coverage

Not all vehicle owners have comprehensive coverage on their insurance, leaving them to pay for hail damage out-of-pocket. Most insurance companies offer comprehensive coverage options that cover anything from a minor hail storm to a tree limb falling on your hood, for example. Ask your insurance company to determine what their policy is for hail. This is a good thing to have “just in case,” because if you do fall victim to hail damage on your vehicle, all you need to pay is a deductible. Deductibles range from $250-$1,000, which is much less than a complete hail repair that can cost anywhere from $2,000 to $12,000 depending on the amount of damage.

HAVE HAIL DAMAGE? GO TO TRANSCENDENT PAINTLESS

If your vehicle has been damaged by hail, Transcendent will work with your insurance company on hail damage claims, to repair any and all dings and dents caused by hail with a lifetime warranty, and in most cases, at no additional cost to you except from your standard insurance deductible. 

DEALING WITH DAY-TO-DAY DENTS AND DINGS

Dings and dents happen. That’s why Transcendent Paintless offers Paintless Dent Removal Services and Hail Damage Repair to help vehicle owners through these common causes of dents and get them back on the road quickly. 

What is the worst parking lot surprise you have gotten? What do you do to protect your vehicle? Let us know on our Facebook or Instagram @pensacola_dent_repair pages and visit Transcendent Paintless online today to learn more about our industry-leading processes! 

Monty's Maserati

Monty from Gulf Breeze called me with a few dents in his Maserati. We cleaned up his car nicely! Its not everyday you get to work on such a unique car! 

If you have a nice car with a dent, give us a call for an estimate! We are a mobile service in the Pensacola Car City area. We can schedule you to meet us at one of the major dealerships in Pensacola. (850) 418-2437

Transcendent Paintless Dent Removal Inc.                                                                                                                   1602 Governor Dr. Pensacola, Fl. 32514      (850) 418-2437

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Ken Griffin's Mercedes

We got a call from Mr Ken Griffin from Ken Griffin Landscaping. He had a dent in his wifes Mercedes. We were able to fix the dent and have another happy customer. 

www.kengriffinlandscape.com

If you have a nice car with a dent, give us a call for an estimate! We are a mobile service in the Pensacola Car City area. We can schedule you to meet us at one of the major dealerships in Pensacola. (850) 418-2437

Transcendent Paintless Dent Removal Inc.                                                                                                                   1602 Governor Dr. Pensacola, Fl. 32514      (850) 418-2437

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