Paintless dent removal in Woodside, NY

Between $150 and $350 per dent, depending on size, depth, sharpness and how easily we can get a tool behind the panel — a shallow door ding with open access sits at the bottom of that range, a deep, creased dent needing glue-pull work sits at the top. Multiple dents assessed on the same visit are usually priced together rather than added up one by one. You get the number after a free assessment on the car, never a guess over the phone.

It genuinely works, within real limits — metal has memory, and a technician can walk it back to its original shape using rods and tabs worked from behind the panel, leaving the factory paint untouched. It does not work on paint that has already cracked, metal that has been stretched past its own memory, or panels with no way to reach the back. We check for all three at the assessment and will tell you plainly if PDR is not the right repair for your dent.

Because it keeps the paint that came with your car rather than replacing it with ours. Filler shrinks slightly as it fully cures, and a filled repair that looks flat under shop lighting can read as a shallow dish in low sun a year or two later. PDR changes only the shape of the metal, so there is no new colour to match, no edge to blend, and none of the two-to-five-day wait a repaint needs — provided the paint was never broken to begin with.

Usually, yes — hail damage is close to the ideal case: dozens of shallow dents with the paint intact, spread across a hood or roof. We will give you a written, itemised repair count for your insurer rather than a single lump sum, since insurers generally price hail claims per dent. Very deep or sharply struck dents, or any spot where the paint has chipped, are the exceptions and get flagged separately during the assessment.

No, and we would rather tell you that up front than start and stop halfway through. PDR needs unbroken paint, metal that has not been stretched past where it wants to return, and access to the back of the panel. A crease on a sharp body line, a dent with cracked paint, or a spot with no rear access at all usually needs filler and paint instead — which becomes a paint estimate under /paint-and-retouching.html rather than a PDR quote.

The repair itself is often quick — a straightforward door ding with good access can take a technician under an hour, and even a large or sharply creased dent needing the glue-pull technique is usually done within a day. We still book dent repair into the same two-to-five-day diary as the rest of body and paint work rather than offering it as a wait-while-you-watch service, and you get a real date at the assessment rather than a guess over the phone.

Almost always, yes. A visible dent gives a buyer or a trade-in appraiser an easy opening to negotiate the price down, usually by more than the repair would have cost. A lease-end inspection prices dents against a published damage schedule that is nearly always higher than our repair price for the same dent. Fixing it on your terms, before the appointment, is the cheaper route in almost every case we see.

24 months or 24,000 miles on the workmanship, the same as everything else we sell. If a PDR repair shows any sign of the original dent returning inside that window, we inspect it at no charge and put it right at no charge. It is a rare warranty claim in practice, because a properly assessed PDR repair does not partially fail — either the metal returns fully to shape or the job was never a PDR candidate to begin with.