Over the years, we have seen many DIY paintless dent repairs of automobile dents and dings that have come to our shop. One of the pros about trying to repair a car ding yourself in your automobile is that if you are successful, it will cost you very minimal dollars and not much time. The question is can you successfully remove the dent yourself.

Every now and again, I hear stories about someone successfully removing the dent out of their vehicle using a toilet plunger or a mallet. While these things might work some of the time, most of the time, they cause more damage and end up eliminating paintless dent repair as a possible option to repair the auto damage, leaving the owner with only a body shop repair option because the damage has been increased, not improved.

Alternatively, there are a lot of cons of the do-it-yourself dent repair. You can make the dent worse. You can lock the dent in place by putting pressure in areas of the panel from pulling too hard or pushing in the wrong area. One of the main concerns with DIY dent repair is that the paint is broken by the repair. Using the wrong dent removal tool with the wrong pressure, with the wrong level of temperature or heat, can actually make the damage worse because of unskilled or inexperienced pushes. When a vehicle makes it to our pdr shop after having DIY dent repair, sometimes we can save the repair. But it always costs more because we have to undo what the customer has done to their vehicle, in addition to the original damage, which has a higher price tag. Our suggestion here at American Dent specialists is don't do it yourself when it comes to paintless dent repairs.

If you have a question about whether or not your dent is repairable using paintless dent removal, bring it to a dent doctor, like American Dent Specialists, and allow our trained dent removal experts assess the vehicle and determine what actually is necessary to repair the vehicle.

Living in Houston, Texas, it's awesome how many top quality PDR companies we have in this city that know exactly how to professionally repair dings and dents, large auto damage, and auto hail damage using the paintless dent removal method. Our brick-and-mortar shop is located on the West Side of Houston. We service the Greater Houston Area including Katy, Texas, Cypress, Texas, Sugarland, Texas, the Memorial area, Spring Branch, Spring, the Woodlands, Magnolia, Tomball and more.

If you have experienced hail damage, or if you have dent on your vehicle caused by somebody dinging your car, by opening your car door into a pole or a hit and run in a parking lot, before you try do it yourself dent removal, take a few minutes, snap a picture of the damage and text it over to our professional, dent repair expert technicians here at American Dent. Allow us to assess the damage and let you know what needs to be done to repair the ding or dent. At least know going in how quickly and how inexpensively that dent can be professionally repaired.

SEND PICS NOW

We work directly with your auto insurance company. If you need to make a claim, we will work directly with your insurance to see your dent repair claim all the way through the process. If for any reason, it actually needs to have a conventional auto repair and bodywork done to it, we can also supply those services through our body shop.

Doing it yourself sometimes works, but as far as small dings and dents go you can create way more damage than you originally had, costing yourself way more money. Allow our expert pdr technicians at American Dent Specialists to solve your auto dent problem today and restore your vehicle back to its pre-damaged condition.