Fixing Aluminum dented vehicles

When it comes to fixing dents in an aluminum vehicle, due to a door ding, crease or minor dent, aluminum is much harder to work on and takes a lot more skill and patience. Aluminum is one of the harder metals to work when it comes to "paintless dent repair" pushing the metal back to its original form is much more difficult than normal steel.

Metal Memory? Aluminium metal doesn't have a good 'metal memory', which means that when aluminium is dented unlike steel, it's not as easily shaped back to its undamaged state. To form aluminium back to its original state, specific tools and skills are needed to work the aluminum back into it pre-accident condition.

Cost. The cost to work a dent out of aluminum is higher for the reasons you just read. Usually you will see a 35-50% up-charge when it comes to performing "PDR" on an aluminum vehicle or motorcycle gas tank. working with door dents in aluminum takes at least 50% longer and is much more strenuous on the paintless dent repair technician! Factors like where the dent is located and how stretch the dent is, will determine if the dent is even fixable. feel free to contact us at info@smartpdrservices.com or you can text us your pictures for a quick quote at 920-858-5019.

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What does it cost to fix a dent?

Paintless dent repair costs will very from job to job, there are a lot of things that determine what the dent will cost to be fixed, the severity of the dent, the depth and location of the dent, how stretched the metal is, if the dent is on a body line or on the edge of a panel, when accessing the dent becomes more difficult, custom paint jobs and so on. If the dent is on a front door, does that door have safety/laminated glass? Safety glass makes it more difficult to repair a dent due to issues that can occur with the glass itself, the dent can be fixed but the process takes longer because we need to be more careful that we do not damage the edge of the glass itself, safety glass is not like normal glass and is not common in all cars but is getting used more in today's newer model vehicles and high end vehicles.

The normal door ding the size of a quarter up to 1" starts at $150, that can very if there are other factors that come into play, that same dent on a motorcycle gas tank starts at $185 and up. Pictured below you will see some add on's for automotive door dent repair only.

As you can see, there are a lot of variation that can determine what a dent will cost when using the PDR method.

Using paintless dent repair is always the best, fasted and most environmentally friendly choice when it comes to fixing dents. we can also fix dents a lot larger than a quarter and have successfully repaired dents the size of a basket ball and larger.

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What is Paintless dent repair or PDR?

Paintless Dent Repair (PDR), also known as Paintless Dent Removal or Paint free dent removal, is an environmentally-friendly or "eco-friendly" repair method that restores a vehicle’s body panel back to it's factory condition before the damage occurred and in a fraction of the time and in most cases a fraction of the cost. PDR can be used to remove door dings and dents large and small, motorcycle gas tank dent repair, creases and hail damage from vehicles. The paintless dent repair process involves some of these primary steps below.

1. Assess the damaged area

2. Gain an access point to the damaged area

3. Proper high-tech lighting to gain a better picture of the dented area

4. Proper dent tools to be able to massage the metal back to it's original contour and shape

Assess the damaged area

One of the first step to any PDR repair process is to assess the damage area. Where is the dent located? How big or stretched is the dent area? How do will we access to the dented area? After assessing the dented area and determining if it can be effectively removed through PDR we will then prepare the area around the dent for the repair by removing any obstacles like, taillights, or mirrors or anything that could hinder the repair process.

Gain an access point to the damaged area

In most cases when performing PDR, you are requires you to access the back side of the damaged panel, which means carefully removing vehicles interior or exterior body panels, like, tail lights, or in some cases with interior panels, the headliner or interior trim. To perform PDR, you need a way to access the dent from behind to the damaged area.

Once we have access to a dent, it is then time to perform the paintless dent repair process. This is where the Got Dents Get Fixed highly skilled and certified technicians come into play!

Proper high-tech lighting to gain a better picture of the dented area

Smartpdr uses the most up to date state of the art lights, LED specific lights that are made just for preforming PDR. With out these lights, it would be very difficult to repair the damaged area properly and efficiently.

Proper dent tools to be able to massage the metal back to it's original contour and shape

Having the proper equipment make a big difference when it comes to the quality and the outcome of the damaged body panel. Performing paintless dent removal without the proper tools can cause more damage and can cause a customer to have to have their vehicle then repaired the conventional way.

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