Car Body Repair Without Paint

One of the many problems that car owners will encounter is how to repair dents and dings that are usually made from accidental bumps with obstacles and minor accidents with other cars. If there is no paint damage, the appropriate method used as a car body repair is the paintless dent removal. This is a process of removing different kinds of dents and dings from the body of a motor vehicle when no paint damage is visible. However, when there is a visible damage to the body paint, paintless dent removal (PDR) may not be the appropriate method to use.

PDR is used to repair minor damage to the car's bodywork, door dings and bumper indentations. However, PDR can also be used to prepare a particular dent for painting, in case there is actual paint damage on the dent. This method is called "push to paint" or "push in preparing for paint". However there are limitations of using the PDR in getting rid of dents. The factors could be flexibility of the metal where the dent happened, the flexibility of the body's paint, the extent of damage and the sharpness of the creases in the area. Very sharp creases can be repaired but will need to be repainted most of the time.

PDR is not a new method. In fact, this dent repair method has already been used by various car business establishments as minor car repair to quickly get rid of minor dings. Car rentals, car auctions and similar car establishments have been using this but lately this has been used heavily in repairing consumer vehicles. Consumers are now also aware of this method because this is fast, efficient and highly-effective.

In removing the dents, body picks and metal rods are the usual tools used in PDR. The body picks and rods are used to push the metal from the underside back to it original position. There are also those that use that use a tab and special glue in the dent repair. To do this, they stick the dent to the tab and pull it out returning it to its original form. Pushing or pulling should just be enough because too much pulling and pushing can break the paint and will ruin the repair.

One of the most important aspects of PDR is the use of reflection board that is used to see the shadows that the dent will form. Others utilize fluorescent lighting. Without using the reflection board and fluorescent lighting, minute details of the dents will not be seen by the technician and when PDR is applied in the wrong area, the dent will be aggravated rather than being repaired. With the help of the reflection board however, technicians where exactly to push and to pull in order to fix the dent in the right way.

Paintless dent removal is a quick solution to simple dings to the car's body however technicians must be experienced to get the process right. The right technician will know how much he has to pull and to push so that the dent will return to its original place without damaging the surrounding area. Inexperienced technicians will end up damaging the paint when they do not use the correct paintless dent removal. There are many experienced technicians that can be found all over the country and you can ask your local car repair shop for their contact number.

Need more information about paintless dent removal or car body repair? The Dent Repair Company who have 15 years experience in this technique can normally give you a quotation from a photograph sent via email. http://www.thedentrepaircompany.co.uk/

By Robert Z Jones