This car came in with a sharp dent beside the driver’s door handle, the kind a car door or a shopping cart leaves in a parking lot. The paint around it wasn’t cracked or chipped, which made it a good candidate for paintless dent repair.
What we did
Under a dent repair light, the reflected lines on the door bent around the dent and showed exactly where the metal had been pushed in. We took off the door’s inner trim to reach the back of the panel, then worked the dent out a little at a time with dent repair tools, checking the reflection after every push until the lines ran straight again.
No filler, no sanding and no paint went into this repair. The door kept the paint it left the factory with, so there’s no color to match and nothing that could fade differently from the rest of the car later on.
The result
The dent was gone the same day. Because nothing was repainted, the repair cost far less than a body shop panel repair would have, and the door still carries its original factory finish.
