Paintless dent repair
Method for removing minor dents from the body of a motor vehicle / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Paintless dent repair (PDR), also known as paintless dent removal, describes a method of removing small dents, dings, and minor collision damage (paint unbroken) dents from the body of a motor vehicle. A wide range of damage can be repaired using paintless dent repair as long as the paint surface is intact. Paintless dent repair may be used on both aluminum and steel panels.
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Common practical uses for paintless dent repair is the repair of hail damage, door dings, creases, body/feature line dents, and minor collision damage.
The method can also be utilized to prepare a damaged panel for repainting by minimizing the use of body filler. This technique is currently known as "push to paint" or "push to prep". Less is certainly more when it comes to the integrity of damage that is repaired with body filler.
Paintless Dent Repair can be a very beneficial repair given the damage qualifies. It can save the factory finish on your vehicle, which cannot be replicated nor reproduced. However, PDR does not replace your traditional body repair shop. Factors such as paint damage, stretched metal, or an already re-painted panel can inhibit the success of a PDR repair.
Stretched metal is when the impact that created the dent pushes the metal beyond the form it was stamped into. One way to illustrate, it is similar to how if you press your finger into the plastic packaging covering a 40 bottle case of water. If you press it in so that the plastic stretches inward but you do not puncture the film, you achieve a similar effect to that of stretched dents. There is simply more material there than was started with, and to put that material back is generally unlikely. Although, tech and industry advancements have show great strides in fixing damage that was previously believed to be irreparable via PDR. Glue pulling, Tension methods, and power boxes have opened the realm for even deep stretched dents to be repaired to as close to factory spec as possible.