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The bracing underneath decides the job, not the dent.
A hood is a large, mostly flat panel that shows every imperfection, sitting on a frame of bracing that decides how much of it a technician can reach from behind. Most hood dents take 1 to 4 hours depending on how deep they are and how many there are, and the car goes home the same day.
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A hood is a large, mostly flat panel that shows every imperfection, sitting on a frame of bracing that decides how much of it a technician can reach from behind. Most hood dents take 1 to 4 hours depending on how deep they are and how many there are, and the car goes home the same day.
One panel, two moments, a short time apart. No filler went on it, nothing was sanded back and no paint was sprayed. What you slide across is the finish the car was built with. This one was corrected at our Bellevue shop, the same paintless dent repair we bring to Seattle and across the Eastside.
Under a hood is a lattice of bracing. A dent in an open section is straightforward. The same dent sitting directly over a brace is a different job, sometimes needing the liner dropped, sometimes glue pulled from the outside.
A hood reflects more than any panel on the car, so it shows every low spot and every high spot. It is a panel where finishing properly matters more than finishing fast.
Plenty of hoods are aluminum even on otherwise steel cars, including the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. Aluminum has no spring-back, needs heat to become workable, and takes longer as a result.
A wide shallow dent often comes out faster than a small deep one. Depth is what decides how many passes it takes, which is why we ask for a photo taken across the panel rather than straight down at it.
Not a testimonial slider we wrote ourselves. That is the live score on the Google Business Profile, and the link below goes straight to it so you can read all 263.
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.
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.
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Usually 1 to 4 hours depending on how deep the dent is and how many there are. A dent sitting over a brace or on an aluminum hood takes longer than one in open metal.
On the Model 3 and Model Y the hood and the doors are aluminum while the fenders and quarter panels are steel. Aluminum has no spring-back and needs heat to move properly, so the same dent takes longer on the hood than it would on the fender.
Often yes, and the method changes. If a rod cannot reach behind it we glue pull from the outside instead, which is slower and is why access matters more to the price than the size of the dent does.
Done to the premium standard, no. A hood is the panel most likely to expose a rushed repair because it reflects so much sky, which is exactly why we read it under a board rather than judging it outside.
One straight on, one at an angle, one close, plus the year, make and model. You get a real answer within the hour during business hours, including when the answer is that paintless repair is the wrong method for what you have.