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Will my insurance pay for paintless dent repair?

Andy Ball • Feb 08, 2021

Will my insurance pay for paintless dent repair?

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Whether or not your auto insurance will pay for paintless dent repair, pdr, depends on the type of auto damage that you have. If you have hail damage on your automobile and you're looking to have it repaired through your insurance, they will absolutely pay to have a paintless dent repair company use paintless dent repair to bring your car back to its pre-storm condition. Paintless dent removal is actually the preferred method for auto insurance to repair auto hail damage on your vehicle when it's been damaged in a hailstorm.

Will your insurance pay for paintless dent repair for damage that was not caused by hail? 


If you have a vehicle that has been damaged and you have made an insurance claim for the dent removal, you definitely want to utilize paintless dent removal for the dent repair if at all possible because you don't want your new vehicle to be painted and body filler put on it which happens when uses a body shop for dent removal. You want your vehicle to stay in its most original condition while removing the dents. You can absolutely put a claim in to have your insurance repair the damage. Then you’ll want to find a paintless dent repair shop that is equipped to do full large repairs using the paintless dent repair process.

As an example, we recently had a Porsche Macan come in with 85 inches of creases down the side of it! A mirror of another vehicle had been dragged down the side of the car and went all the way through the driver's door, through the rear door and through the rear quarter panel, not once but twice leaving 85 inches of creases in that vehicle. The auto insurance wanted to paint and fill the panels, replace one of the doors, paint the entire side of the car using a traditional body shop but the customer didn't want that. They brought it to us for pdr. We worked with the auto insurance company to have them pay to have the dents removed using our paintless dent repair process, all the while earning a new fan of paintless dent removal! When the insurance agent came to our pdr shop to inspect the vehicle after it had been repaired and was amazed at what we were able to do, returning the car back to its original condition.

So yes, your insurance will pay for paintless dent repair. Although in most cases, paintless dent repair costs less than your insurance deductible, except where auto hail damage claims as concerned. If the total pdr costs are less than your deductible, it is a great alternative to making an insurance claim. You will get your car returned back to his pre-damaged condition in a fraction of the time of conventional repair with paintless dent repair.


If you need any of our pdr service and you're looking to have a professional five-star rated paintless dent removal company assess your auto damage for dent removal, remember that we have been locally owned and operated in the Greater Houston area for 21 years. We pride ourselves in providing an exceptional experience for every one of our dent removal customers. We love to talk pdr so please give us a call 660-3178 or visit us at our website
www.americandentspecialists.com if there are any questions that we can answer for you about paintless dent repair, dent removal, mobile dent repair and auto hail damage repair.

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