PDR vs A Body Shop For Hail Repairs

Comparison Of Paintless Dent Repair And Body Shop Hail Repairs

Work in progress on a hail damaged vehicle using conventional body shop repair methods.

After a hail storm has occurred, the repair shops and collision centers in an area, eager to make money, begin to advertise as qualified hail damage repair vendors.

 Unfortunately, the reality is that many of them have very little to no experience repairing hail damage.  In places where hail storms are a rare occurrence, most shops likely will not even know how to properly make an estimate of a hail damaged car. While they mean well, these shops are limited to the methods they are familiar with, which typically means replacing most of a dented car's damaged panels with new, usually after-market ones, or using body fillers to level each dent and repainting the entire panel, oftentimes the entire vehicle.
It is no secret that painting a car diminishes its resale value. These repair methods, while appropriate for collision work, can also trigger negative Carfax reporting further lowering a hail damaged vehicle's value. Dealer's Hail & Specialty are experts at repairing automotive hail damage to cars of all makes and models. Our hail damage repair process, known as Paintless Dent Removal, or PDR, is performed without having to paint or replace a car's original factory panels and also maintains the manufacturer's warranties, resulting in a dent free vehicle with no compromised value. Check out this article for more information about PDR.
For repairing hail damaged cars, especially when you consider turnaround time and overall cost there really is no comparison! Our PDR hail damage repair process is usually done in 1-2 days and at a much lower cost than the 3-4 weeks needed for body shop repairs. There is no longer any reason to wait for a month to have your hail damaged car dents repaired!
​So if your car has hail damage, don't let a body shop accelerate the depreciation of one of your family's largest assets. Don't trust your dented vehicle to anywhere other than the hail damage repair experts and the Paintless Dent Repair company of choice for car dealerships nationwide. Call Dealer's Hail & Specialty today for a completely hassle free hail repair experience, and rest easy knowing your vehicle's value is at its maximum, we guarantee it!
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More Hail Repair Resources
​Visit our online appointment book to schedule a free hail repair estimate
Find answers to the most common hail repair and insurance claim process questions here.
Check out our new hail and dent repair cost calculator, its totally free to use and it will give you an idea on how bad your car hail damage is, calculate your car dent repair cost here.

Joey Cook

Joey Cook is a PDR and hail repair industry consultant and a founder of Dealer's Hail & Specialty, a firm specializing in fleet hail repair solutions.