The Fine Art of Scientific Paintless Dent Removal |
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Steven Magill
February 16, 2013
You will always feel a degree of pain whenever a pet possession acquires its first trace of damage whether by use or by accident. This sensation is magnified to a certain extent when car owners, especially the new ones, will notice the first formation of dent in their cars. For owners who possesses a car as a vehicle, it is about economics. For car enthusiasts, it is more about aesthetics and pride.
However, while casual car owners may panic as an immediate reaction to the first sight of dent, car enthusiasts and old car owners would immediately refer such damage to a professional dent master. Unless the owners itself has knowledgeable in DIY car dent repair, the best result would always be achieved by someone who have already mastered the art of dent repair, particularly paintless dent removal or PDR.
What makes PDR an art is the discipline a dent specialist employs when achieving the brand new look perfection of their work. Most if not all car dent professionals would settle for no less. The competitiveness of car dent repair as an industry makes quality something that car dent technicians can't compromise. For that and the fact that car dent repairs always invites the sensitive curiosity of whose who witness the gracefulness of the work, dent removal and PDR in particular is justifiably an art. It is in a way like sculpture, only the form you are working on is something that must be restored instead of created.
It has been fabled that PDR as an industry originated in an upstart car manufacturing plant that came to be known as "Ding Masters". It is said that they have this extremely skilled team of craftsmen that creatively repair and removes car dents on-site without having to purchase any new replacement material. The need to have this team however faded as industrial revolution went on into its modern form. However, in the 1980s economic challenges enlightened some enterprising entrepreneurs to revive the scientific process developed by those technicians at Ding Masters. These entrepreneurs turned the process into an art of restoring deformed cars.
From the beginning, the size and chip of dents have always been the main limitation of PDR. Existing tools and technology then simply cannot handle huge dents caused by full impact accidents. However, it stays an integral part of dent repair as a whole together with other dent repair techniques. In fact, very often it is used as a finishing procedure in those major repair jobs.
Technology however ultimately came to evolve on the side of car dent repair. As newer tools, especially car dent tools, are invented or developed, it has become more and more possible to apply PDR to larger and larger dent deformities. One good example to that are glue pullers wherein deformities are glued and pulled into a position that is already workable with PDR.
The fact that paintless dent removal does not conceal hidden damages is actually the reason why it has become one of the most popular car procedures in the automotive industry. The absence of these traces of damages makes cars of today saleable at a higher price when an owner decides to resell it. Car owners who have barely used their cars but are forced to sell their cars because of an accident are most happy about the existence of this service. On top of that, PDR is actually economically practical since while the service may be priced competitively, it doesn't by itself come with additional purchase on replacement parts or materials.
As you may well have argued by now, how can PDR be paintless if the paint itself is damaged? The answer is it won't. Because that is the only clear limitation of paintless dent removal since it is conceived. Still the rest of the technique it employs has become an integral part of the dent repair process, notable the way a car is applied with force to assume a desired force as compared to forming it right out of the plant or using old car dent equipment that very often requires replacement of materials.