Ugly dents fixed without filler or paint

[Imadentguy]

For retail repairs, my dent guy charged $200 for 2 quarter size dents on a hood.

Wholesale is a different story

Thats about right for something like that. Price can be very subjective with PDR. Im currently in Houston doing retail hail at a few bodyshops buuuuut i door ding wholesale at a Toyota dealership to fill in my dead space. Wholesale in this town is face down rump up rock bottom. Its sooo bad.

 

[The Critic]

Wholesale in this town is face down rump up rock bottom. Its sooo bad.

Around here it is $75-80/car.

 

[demarpaint]

That's a talented individual.

 

[Imadentguy]

Around here it is $75-80/car.

% off of $50 here in Houston. Recon companies have trashed this town. Impossible to pick up your own store. Its all sub work off of recon packages. No….bueno….. only way i make money at dealerships is up charges for big dents. Mind me asking where are you located?

 

[The Critic]

% off of $50 here in Houston. Recon companies have trashed this town. Impossible to pick up your own store. Its all sub work off of recon packages. No….bueno….. only way i make money at dealerships is up charges for big dents. Mind me asking where are you located?

SF Bay Area.

 

[DuckRyder]

Ah ok i gotchya’ i thought you were referring to the dry ice thing. ...

I think the dry ice thing is a myth. I have never actually spoken to a PDR guy who says he uses dry ice. Nor seen one use it. I've talked to them as far back as 97.

I've talked to non-professional people pretty much everywhere it hails in the US that claim that is how someone got out a dent or hail damage.

Way back in the day when paintless dent repair was a new thing at least in the main stream, (it has been being done well back before that point) how it was done was a secret. Literally no one would let you see them do it, it was a big secret... they would hide the process with a tarp or behind closed shop doors. Much as with all things that people try to keep secret people started making up their own stories and theories about the process. Dry Ice was one of those.

I have seen dents and creases that are widely claimed to not be PDRable put into vehicles for demonstration purposes and gotten out, but you're most likely not going to find that level of skill from a guy working under an EZup in the corner of a closed up gas station parking lot after a hail storm. That is not to say it is impossible, but chances are low. (or an NOAA WR would say "There is a low but non-zero chance". LOL.