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You have a dent. What is the car for?
That question decides more than the size of the dent does. A car you are keeping for years and a car going back to a leasing company next month want two different repairs, and paying for the wrong one is the most common way people waste money on this.
Pick the closest one. We will tell you which standard of repair actually fits, and say so plainly when the expensive one is not the one you need.
There is more than one right answer to the same dent.
Every shop quotes one number and lets you assume it is the only way the job can be done. There are two, they are genuinely different pieces of work, and which one is right depends entirely on the answer you just gave.
Taken all the way. There is nothing left to find.
Worked until the panel reads clean under the board, from every angle, at every distance, including the angles people only find by hunting for them. This is the standard that takes the longest and the one a technician will argue about with themselves before calling it finished.
You are keeping the car, it is a lease with a strict inspection, or an insurer is paying for the panel to be put back properly.
The car is going to auction next week. You would be paying for a standard nobody in that chain is going to look for.
Gone to any normal eye. The sensible middle.
The dent comes out and the panel stops drawing attention. Put a hard light on it at the wrong angle and someone who knows what they are looking for may still catch a trace of where it was. Nobody walking up to the car will.
You are selling or trading, returning a lease, or you want the car to look right without paying for the last few percent.
It is your car, you know exactly where the dent was, and you are the kind of person who will keep checking that spot.
Because the alternative is quoting one number and hoping. A shop that only ever sells the most expensive version is not being thorough, it is being lazy about your situation. The two exist so the repair can be matched to what the car is actually for, and Practical is not a damaged version of Premium. They are different amounts of work, finished deliberately at different points.
You do not need to know what you want before you contact us. Tell us what the car is for and send the photos, and the number comes back already matched to that.
Stand where a hard light or a window reflection crosses the panel. That reflection is what we read, and it is why a photo taken in the shade tells us almost nothing.
Not for the look of it. It tells us whether the panel is steel or aluminum, and that changes the time and the number more than the size of the dent does.
Keeping it, lease coming back, selling it, insurance. One line. It is the difference between a number that fits and a number you have to argue with.
Including when the answer is that paintless is the wrong method for what you have, and we point you at someone who does that work properly.
That is not a sales line, it is how you end up with customers who come back and send people. Tell us the situation and we will tell you the truth about which standard it needs.
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