The Romance Between Car Accidents and Paintless Dent Removal |
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Steven Magill
February 14, 2013
It may be said that accidents and PDR or paintless dent removal has a kind of love-hate relationship. While paintless dent repair has proved to be a truly wonderful solution for many types of vehicle body repairs, its record with dents resulting from full impact accidents is patchy at best.
PDR is not only more affordable than traditional repairs it also preserves the value of a vehicle while eliminates the use of environmentally harmful chemicals and solvents in the process of repairing. It also takes significantly less time to complete which makes it economically practical, plus the fact that it is covered by most insurance policies.
Considering these advantages, it is then worthy to consider reexamining PDR's relationship with accidents. To do that, the word accident itself must be put into perspective. While they do the most damage and get the most attention, full impact accidents are not the only type of accident. Many, if not most, accidents are not as grand and dramatic just as only a fraction of statistically recorded accidents are fatal. It is then perhaps only fair to judge PDR's value with respect to whatever relationship it may have with accidents by drawing it from the point of view of accident in its statistical wholeness.
Let's take for example accidental dents caused by hail. As far as the formation dents on a car is concerned, getting surprised by hail on the road is an accident. This is because no sane driver would intentionally drive when a hail is on-going or forecasted to be coming, unless of course it's an emergency which is another story. As an accidental cause of dent, PDR has proven to be effective an effective antidote to damages caused by hails. Insured car owners who have gone through a hailstorm can testify to that.
Minor dents caused by less strong or heavy objects than the car can cause the car body deformity called dings. Dings may also be caused solid objects thrown into it either because of the object's weight or the car's acceleration. These incidents are likewise qualified as dents commonly and technically. While worst cases could be a serious challenge, PDR's record with it as an effective paintless, chemical-free dent repair procedure has been most praised both by car owners and hobbyists alike. Even car dent technicians would prefer to use PDR over other methods for the same reason that they take the least time, demand the least preparation and require the least capital expense.
Vehicular collisions or collisions with bigger stronger objects or structures tend to incur the worst type of damage. Yet, even in such what may already be relatively considered as full-impact accidents, PDR is still used on a case to case basis. As long as the car didn't sustain a serious damage in its paint coating, PDR will most likely be able to do restore it to its almost brand new form with the help of course of the right tools. In fact in cases wherein it is virtually impossible to restore the body's structural form, procedures developed by car dent professionals can are still used if only to avoid using chemicals and other potentially harmful means.
There can be other accidental incidents that can make use of PDR more cost-efficiently than other methods. However, the abovementioned examples are enough to prove that PDR's relationship with accidents is after all not as lousy on as many thought it is. The notion that it is ineffective comes from the fact that the word "accident" is very often narrowly thus wrongly appreciated. It is both an injustice to its contribution to automotive service industry and an insult to the people that has developed it into almost an art.