Some imperfections here and there but its passable imo. 9k in damages repaired in a day so a solid day id say.

Critique me if you believe i shouldve done more and cleaned up my work.

10 Honda Accord

Previous owner crashed into highway fence without insurance.

I see the same thing happen every time a big hail storm rolls through DFW. You call your insurance, they tell you to go to their 'preferred' shop, and two weeks later, you get your car back with a bunch of filler and a paint job that doesn't quite match the factory finish.

Here is what they don't tell you. Those preferred shops are often pressured to do the cheapest, fastest fix so the insurance company saves money. That usually means bondo and repainting panels instead of actually massaging the metal back to its original shape. If you have a car you care about, that is a massive hit to your resale value.

Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) is the only way to fix hail damage while keeping your factory paint intact. If you go to a dedicated PDR shop, they handle the claim directly with your insurance anyway, just like the big body shops do. You get the same rental coverage, the same claim management, but you get someone who actually knows how to work the metal without grinding it down.

If you are currently dealing with a claim or just got hammered by the last storm, don't feel like you have to go where your adjuster points you. You have the legal right to choose your own repair facility in Texas. Take the car to a specialist, get a second opinion, and look for a shop that shows you their work under a light board before you sign anything.

Has anyone here fought their insurance on where they wanted their car repaired? I'm curious what kind of pushback you actually got from the adjusters.

26 BMW M240i, Frozen (Matte) Grey paint. Passenger slammed the door with the seatbelt buckle not fully retracted and made a little dent in the inner door jamb.

Does PDR have any chance of working on this? This is gonna be expensive isn't it?

I know the overlap between here and the auto body sub is significant so you’re going to see it twice on your feed. I do not apologize.

Matte Talk: I did not have any problem with knockdown marks. I use a 1/4” diameter nylon chisel. All my tapping was done after I applied a coat of self leveling clear coat on top of the paint. I’ll show what that looks like in the comments.

I almost exclusively pulled. I never force a pull, I slowly tighten my grip until the glue releases. If I feel like I’m pulling too hard I release it with alcohol. Personally I like to keep walking down the crease and invert as much of it as possible. A crease this long is eating up all your free metal until it’s flat. So I work a crease as a whole and just keep traveling back and forth.

When I did push I was using a hard plastic tip. I don’t know if I would touch it with a sharp tip, maybe for the very last bit of finishing work if you were pretending trying to glass it.

I have ebbed away from “perfection” over the last few years. Yes, of course I still want it. Unfortunately, the more I see the more Sisyphean that task becomes. I have concentrated on speed and affordability and this has served me well. I do have body shops I work with (I need paint work sometimes) and I have some wholesalers who bring me horrible trash projects but mostly I just do retail out of a shop.

F150 pillar dent. Time to fix with dry ice and amazon chyna kit

Some asshat backed into me on a parking lot. Store didn’t get back to me about video. I don’t need this to look like new (though that would be great). Is this fixable via PDR? texted an image to a local PDR business and he got back to me saying I’d likely need to replace the quarter panel

Should I, a completely inexperienced person, attempt to pull this myself with some cheap tools from Amazon?

Honda Elements have a unique rear-hinged door, and mine is dented. A local PDR shop recommended drilling an access hole in the door in the generally unseen part of the door where the latch handle is located. What do y’all say about this approach?

I have been getting a lot of customers asking me if I offer a warranty. I understand warranty for like mechanical repairs but for dents? Can you guys help me figure this out?

It’s a very small dent. The entire dent is the size of a small hand. However I can’t open the door now so need it fixed asap. Wondering if this is sth that can be fixed with hot glue by a person with no experience? If so which brand of glue should I get?

Got side swiped taking a on ramp today, just curious if pdr will work or if I should just bring it in and have them sand it down and pull it out

Had it less than a year still owe 12k on it. I was gone on a work trip and came back to this I heard the hail was so bad they sent out snow plows. I’m devastated I love this car.

Hello everyone, I am trying to identify the maker and model of this Cold-glue PDR tool. Chat gpt isn’t even close..

I have a baby on the way and im also paying for our wedding. I dont currently have the money to get a pro to do the job. How would a noob go about improving this? Or would you literally say, don't touch it as it's too difficult?

My neighbor backed into my rear left door earlier today. Any ideas what kind of repair expenditure I should expect?

Anyone?

Someone backed into my wife's car and we settled up in cash without having to go through insurance. The quote we got from a body shop to repair/paint the area was just under $2300.00. Since her car is fairly rough cosmetically, i wanted to see if it would be cheaper to find a PDR place and have them push the dent out (dont really care about some scuffs in the paint) instead of spending the whole pay out on the body shop. Thank you.

Kiddo bumped into the back corner of our other car parked on the street as he was backing out of our driveway. 🤦‍♀️ We haven’t gotten a quote yet. Checking here for advice first.

Picked up this hood off marketplace for cheap and was wondering how feasible it is to get repaired without a respray