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Automotive Guide What is Paintless Dent Repair?

By: David Maillie
Automotive Guide

The auto repair and restoration business has blossomed in recent years especially in auto body repair. Along with the rising demand costs have greatly increased. A small dent repair at a local body shop can cost around $600 or more easily to fix. Multiply that by 6 (the average number of parking lot dings, gouges and dents per car) and you can pay over $2000 to just fix all the dents and dings on your car.

In comes paintless dent repair. Paintless dent repair has been around for over ten years and was first started at local car dealerships for fixing used cars and increasing used car revenues (like headlight restoration). Paintless dent removal is the repairing of small dents and dings by massaging them out.

Paintless dent technicians are trained with tools similar to pry bars, mirrors and special lights to gently return the bent and stretched metal to its former shape. This may seem difficult, but actually most repairs can be done in 20 -30 minutes and the results are nothing short of amazing. Unless the dent is on a door edge or a difficult crease, the result will be like the dent or ding was never there. It is completely removed.

The average cost is around $50 per ding or dent. Obviously a used car dealership with a lot of inventory will have lower volume prices around $30 per dent. Paintless dent removal, like headlight restoration, is a high profit margin business that any automotive business can use to add to their bottom line. Many businesses actually pay their entire lease or rent from these add-on businesses alone.

As lives become more hectic and unless you always want to park far away you will get dings and dents. There is no way out of it. They could even come as hail damage from a bad thunderstorm, a ding from the neighborhood kids soccer ball, etc… It will happen, but you don’t have to pay through the nose to have them fixed. Paintless dent removal is the best solution.

Article provided by MDWholesale.com Headlight Restoration, a website devoted to automotive safety.

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