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Steven Magill
28 January 2013
There are generally two types of drivers in the world of car hobbyists. The one that parks right away at any space that looks to cover their car width and the one that will carefully create space between his car and the car on either side of his parking space. However, none of these drivers can prevent the inability of car dents in the lifetimes of their precious cars.
For a car enthusiast, a door ding or any deformity on their car, accidental or not, is a painful sight. This is especially true to car owners who consider their cars more than just a transportation vehicle but a status symbol of their lifestyle and social bearing.
In when car hobby is still at its adolescence and just a few years after cars were mass produced, car dents will immediately mean a trip to an auto repair shop. Thereafter it can mean a repaint right away, regardless of the severity of the damage.
Today, car dent repair can now be performed by paintless dent removal or PDR as it has come to be fondly referred to. It has become an household vocabulary to anyone with passion for cars.
Doing PDR
Several PDR service establishments nowadays are offering what is called as mobile dent repair. This is when the technicians themselves will go to wherever the dented car is parked and do the procedure on site.
Mobile dent repair specialists will tell you that the trick in approaching a car dent removal procedure is all about understanding the shape of the dent. To understand the dent's shape the technician must be able to view and appreciate it from different angles allowing him a full picture of the deformity. If you have watched car dent repairs, this is the use of those special lights and mirrors that seem to be odd inclusions to a car handyman's toolbox.
Once the dent technician is satisfied he has already fully understood the peculiarities of the car dent case in front of him that is the time car dent repair becomes an art. Car technicians have this saying that dented metals naturally want to go back to its original state. That is its form when it came out of the factory. The idea behind in car dent repair then is to help the dent metal return to its original form. This explains why dent repair is usually done by a dent repair specialist and not just by any mechanic, especially when doing PDR.
Most car dent case that is not caused by a major accident can be done seamlessly by PDR. The reason why this procedure is the most popular is not because it is the most effective. In fact there are quite a lot of car dent cases that require more extensive dent repair procedures. But, it is only PDR that has the most potential of near perfect, if not perfect, result.
Repair Cost
The price of car dent repair can vary per contract and can be influenced by the considerations of relative service markets. The number of dents, the gravity of deformity, the materials used to achieve the quality demanded by the client and all other elements that were critical in achieving the quality of the result may be factored in.
Car dent repair can be covered by insurance. In such cases, the repair contract will be experience less contention between car owners and technicians. They would instead have to deal with the insurance company respectively as owners must file and fulfil requirements for a claim and repair shops have to deal with the bureaucratic procedure of the insurance firm.
Paintless dent removal has become a darling for passionate car lovers because it has the ability to seamlessly restore their babies into their former beauty despite the deformity it has somehow survived. It is the a matter of choosing the most proficient dent repair specialist.