Paintless Dent Repair - Amazing Results
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Some of these guys truly are artists. If you find a good PDR guy, you KEEP him in your contacts.
This. Will watch later. Hellcat came in and is awesome but had a small dent for my guy. Crazy stories when he goes on dent wizard hail runs.
-J
Will watch later. I’ve reached out to a couple local places and can’t even get a GD response.
I've seen them take small dents out, but nothing like that. That was wild.
had no idea that was even remotely possible. I was under the impression it had to be a nice rounded dent - no wrinkles or anything.
wonder what they charged on that one
wonder what they charged on that one
I had a PDR guy remove a hood dent from my Cadillac Escalade EXT last year. He did it in my garage while we chatted, took him maybe two hours. I was blown away, it came out perfect. The local body shop wanted to patch and paint the whole hood.
I would imagine a couple grand. They said it took 2 days.
what did the PDR guy charge
My bet is 5 grand or better. 2 guys for 2 days @ $150/hr.
One of the guys I used to work for had a brother who was a body guy originally but became a big time PDR guy and did work for Ferrari of Seattle and they showed me photos of a large dent on a 458 or something lime that that he was able to PDR. The repair estimate was $75k! Can't imagine how much money he made on that.
Unfortunately being a scratch there PDR isn't going to be able to fix that. Has to be done at a body shop with paint.
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When my father did body work, they had a PDR guy that did alot of really good touch up work also. Find the right guy, he can get it all fixed in one shot.
That’s what I’m hoping for. Get the dent out and worry about touch up for now.
It’ll need a real repaint of that whole quarter at some point.
We had two hail damaged vehicles PDR'd back in the early 2000's. It was fantastic. Never had any associated issues either. It's always my first choice.
I’m assuming auto dealers have PdR guys. I cant imagine the losses in repairs of a hailstorm on 30-200 cars.
PDR would have to reduce that risk wouldn't it?
Jeez, I think most dealerships have a PDR dude in their body shop, or team with local shop.
Dealership not too far away got hit with hail twice within the past year. Kept the local body shop super busy.
Could definitely be touched up, but wasn't sure if it was implied PDR would take care of all of that.
Body shops can be ridiculous with the repair quotes. I got run off the road in my Mustang back in the day and they were going to pay like $200 each to send 2 of my 99 Cobra wheels out for repair. At the time they were still widely available so I got 2 brand new Cobra wheels from CJ Pony Parts for $89 each. When I saw that, I started going over the quote with a fine-tooth comb. I ended up coming in way under the quote they gave my insurance by sourcing new parts myself. I ended up not paying my deductible and getting an $800 check from the body shop. Lol
I got what was quoted to be $3,000 in hail damage on my truck a few years back. I didn't even mess with insurance. I just bought the $60 dent removal kit from Eastwood and did it myself. Not perfect, but pretty good.
I got what was quoted to be $3,000 in hail damage on my truck a few years back. I didn't even mess with insurance. I just bought the $60 dent removal kit from Eastwood and did it myself. Not perfect, but pretty good.
I think it was $200, and I gave him $250 cause it was so nice. Actually, it probably took him just over an hour. He was like a magician with all those tools, and he must have had HUNDREDS of the tools in his van, lol.
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