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The Top 3 Ways To Resolve Vehicle Paint Damage Issues

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The dreaded paint scuff, scrape or scratch on your vehicle, or worse, significant paint damage – it’s every vehicle owner’s nightmare.

Paint damage is ugly, unsightly, and a source of irritation. What should you do? There are several options to choose from depending on the severity of the paint damage.

  • Auto Body Shop – When you have frame damage or a multi-panel collision situation, an auto body shop is your best bet.
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  • Buy a new car – I mean, really, that scratch is so hard to look at, right?

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  • Asheville Hail and Dent Repair – We specialize in minor to medium paint damage from scratches up to bumper blends and single panel sprays. Many times, we can help you without involving your insurance company. Often, we can maintain more of the integrity of your factory paint and clear coat to keep your car’s value intact. Plus, getting your job done with us is usually faster and less expensive than your average body shop. Not sure? Bring it in and let us have a look, we will tell you the best solution whether it’s with us or someone else. Contact us to set an appointment.

The Top 3 Reasons to choose PDR over Auto Body Repair (and not burn up your cash…)

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Auto Body Shop or Paintless Dent Repair?

When you have a dent in your vehicle, how much it’s going to cost is always on your mind, Plus, how long is the repair going to take? There are several ways to address a door ding, dent, or hail damage, and the top two are Auto Body Shops or Paintless Dent Repair (PDR).

How to choose? 

If you have these issues, an Auto Body Shop is the right way to go:

  • Cracked, badly damaged paint
  • Dent is too close to the edge of a panel
  • Frame damage
  • Car parts are damaged, typically side view mirrors, etc.

If your dent fits these parameters, then PDR will save you time and money:

  • Paint around the dent is not severely damaged.
    • However, paint can sometimes appear to be damaged in the case of a surface scuff, typically caused by door dings leaving a thin film of paint. If you are not sure, bring it by and let us look at it. We have a paint scratch repair technician for bumper scuffs and minor body work
  • Hail Storm Damage.
    • Dents caused by hail rarely require the services of an auto body shop. Typically, when you take your car to an Auto Body Shop for hail damage repair, they are going to sub out the work to an out of town PDR specialist anyways.
  • Time and Money.
    • If your dent is smaller than the size of a quarter, it can be repaired with PDR in an hour or two, not days or weeks. Larger dents may take several days, but this will still be far quicker than the time it takes to repair at a body shop. Best of all PDR is always a less expensive option!

Have a dent, ding or hail damage in your vehicle?

Let us take a look – quotes are free. Call us at (828) 707-1717, schedule a visit online or stop by the shop at 1789 Brevard Rd, Arden,NC 28704.

What is PDR?

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Paintless Dent Repair (PDR) is the mechanical process of repairing a dent in your car, truck, van or SUV without repainting. Paintless Dent Repair is superior to conventional body shops in several ways. The biggest advantage of PDR is preserving your factory finish. It’s a fact that the original paint is wildly superior to a repaint. When a car is painted at the factory they control multiple factors, one of the biggest being the e-coat. What is this? It is a process where the car is negatively charged and the e-coat is positively charged, bonding the paint together in a way that makes the original manufacturer’s paint job far more durable than a repaint. 

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Moral of the story? The Key to maintaining the value of the car is keeping the factory paint on your car. PDR helps you to get rid of unsightly cosmetic blemishes, such as dings, dents and hail damage. Better yet, PDR is less expensive than body or paint shop work, and often much quicker.

If you have a dent in your vehicle that you would love to get rid of, contact Shiloh and the team at Asheville Hail and Dent Repair at (828) 707-1717 to schedule your appointment, or visit us on our Website.