The F-150 body is aluminum, and that changes everything.
The single most useful fact about repairing a modern F-150 is that the body is aluminum and has been since the 2015 model year. The doors, the hood, the bedsides and the tailgate are aluminum over a steel frame. Aluminum has no spring-back, so the same dent that would be a quick job on an older steel truck takes longer and needs heat.
1Send three photosThe whole panel, one at an angle and one up close.
2Get a preliminary rangeBy text, within the hour during business hours.
3Bring it to the Bellevue shop13421 NE 20th St. The final price is confirmed in person.
Short answer
The single most useful fact about repairing a modern F-150 is that the body is aluminum and has been since the 2015 model year. The doors, the hood, the bedsides and the tailgate are aluminum over a steel frame. Aluminum has no spring-back, so the same dent that would be a quick job on an older steel truck takes longer and needs heat.
What actually decides it
What moves the number on a Ford trucks
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2015 changed the truck
Ford moved the F-150 body to aluminum for the 2015 model year. If your truck is that year or newer, the panel you dented is almost certainly aluminum, and anyone quoting it like steel has not looked.
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The tailgate is the panel that gets hit
It is broad, flat, and it is where things get loaded, leaned on and reversed into. It is also the panel where several dents at once is far more efficient per dent, because it is one setup and one access.
03
Bedsides can be double walled
Where there is no way to reach behind the outer skin, the repair is a glue pull from the outside in many small stages rather than rod work from within. Slower, and the only method available.
04
Super Duty is a different answer
The F-250 and F-350 use aluminum in some places and steel in others depending on year and cab. We check rather than assume, because guessing wrong costs you time and us credibility.
Under the paint
The panel is only half the story
Two Ford truck dents of the same size can turn out to be two different jobs. What separates them is whatever sits underneath the metal at that exact point: a beam, a brace, a pillar, or nothing at all. Pull the edge across to strip the paint away.
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Drag to peel the paint
A Ford truck with the panels taken off. Choose a number to read what that area means for the work.
Plenty of dents never land on a door, and the rule holds everywhere else
on the car. Hoods, fenders, quarters and tailgates all have something underneath them:
stiffeners, mounting brackets, wiring runs, and under a hood an entire inner frame. Where
the metal is clear at the back, the work moves quickly. Where it sits on a reinforcement,
the panel has to be approached from another angle, or something has to come off before a
tool can get near it. That is the honest reason a quote follows the photo rather than the
description.
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Straight from the shopIt is also why a firm number down the phone would be a guess.
Clear metal behind the damage makes for a short paintless repair. The same damage sitting on
a beam or a pillar makes for a longer one. Send three photographs and we will tell you which
of the two yours looks like, then the shop light settles it when the car arrives.
How paintless dent repair works.
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4.9 out of 5, across 263 reviews
Not a testimonial slider we wrote ourselves. That is the live score on the Google
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★★★★★
Absolutely great experience. The people are friendly and so helpful. They also did an amazing job. This dent showed up after someone hit my parked car and it had been bugging me for months but now you would not even be able to tell it was ever there. They were fast, accommodating and diligent.
Marion RichterGoogle review, 3 months ago
★★★★★
The team provided a fast and reasonable quote for the work I wanted to get done. On the day of the appointment, they greeted me kindly and gave me a timeframe for the job. The final result turned out great and the small dent is now gone.
Des MarksGoogle review, 2 months ago
What people mention most, across all 263
easy estimates15
attention to detail9
door ding removal7
friendly employees7
honest team4
fast scheduling4
Those counts are Google's own, pulled from the review text rather than
chosen by us.
Yes, from the 2015 model year onwards. The doors, hood, bedsides and tailgate are aluminum over a steel frame. It is the most important thing to know before anyone quotes a dent on one, because aluminum takes longer to repair than steel.
Can an aluminum F-150 dent be repaired without paint?
Usually yes. Paintless repair works on aluminum, it just takes more time and heat, because aluminum has no memory pulling it back toward shape the way steel does.
How much does F-150 tailgate dent repair cost?
It depends on how many dents, how deep, and whether they sit on a crease or in the flat. Several dents on one tailgate is one setup, so it costs far less per dent than the same number spread over the truck. Send three photos and we will give you a real number.
Do you repair Ford Ranger and Bronco dents?
Yes. Ranger and Bronco mix materials differently from the F-150, so we confirm the panel before quoting rather than assuming it matches the full size truck.
One straight on, one at an angle, one close, plus the year, make and model. A real answer
within the hour during business hours, including when the answer is that paintless repair is the wrong method.
