Escondido, CA · 35+ Years · 5.0★ Google
Dent Time

Mobile Dent & Bumper Repair San Diego. Done Right.

No body shop. No repaint. No Carfax record. Factory finish restored the right way. Text a few photos and we tell you exactly what it costs.

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858-408-6200 2120 W. Mission Rd. #240, Escondido CA
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Body Line Dents Fixed
Crease repair · PDR technique
Deep Dent on Aluminum
Aluminum panel · High difficulty
Glue Pull Technique
Glue pulling · No access repair
Super Deep Dent · Glassed
Extreme depth · Glass panel repair
Dodge Challenger Repair
Expert repair · Muscle car
PDR Process Up Close
How pros fix dents · Full technique

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The Dent Time Standard

San Diego's Most Exacting Paintless Dent Practice.

One craftsman. One standard. Since 2001.

Dent Time isn't a chain. It isn't a volume shop. It's a small, deliberate practice in Escondido where Myke Toledo has been reading dented metal since 1991, and where every vehicle that comes through the door gets the same answer to the same question: what does it actually take to make this right?

Myke came up in PDR at his family's shop in the early '90s and opened Dent Time with his wife Mary in 2001. Not to scale, but to do the work well. Twenty-five years later, the shop still runs on the same principle: no car leaves unless it would leave clean from a dealer's showroom floor.

That standard starts before a single tool touches the panel. Myke evaluates the damage himself. Depth, location, metal composition, paint age. Then he tells you exactly what's achievable. If PDR isn't the right call, he'll say so. If a more economical path exists, you'll hear about it. The estimate you get is the one we can stand behind, not the one that wins the job.

"Paintless dent repair is a one-way street. The first tech either fixes it right or takes the option away from everyone who comes after."
Myke Toledo, PDR craftsman since 1991 Myke ToledoDent Time · In PDR Since 1991
  1. 01

    Factory Finish, Preserved

    Your OEM paint stays on the panel. No matching, no blending, no aftermarket clear coat. The surface that left the factory is the surface you keep. Protecting what the car came with is the whole point.

  2. 02

    Nothing on the Carfax

    Paintless repair doesn't generate an insurance claim or a body shop record. When you sell, trade, or hand the car down, its history reads exactly like it should. Resale value stays intact.

  3. 03

    Myke Reads Every Job

    Before a single tool comes out, Myke evaluates the damage himself. Panel metal, dent depth, paint age, access points. You get a real answer, not a pitch. If PDR isn't the right call, he'll tell you that first.

  4. 04

    Real Quotes in Minutes. Most Repairs Same-Day.

    Text photos to the shop and get an honest estimate back within minutes, not "later today." Most repairs are completed the day you drop off. Getting your time back is part of the service.

  5. 05

    Satisfied or No Charge. Period.

    If the result isn't right when you pick the car up, no charge is applied. No warranties, no asterisks, no small print. Dents done right don't come back, and we stake the invoice on it.

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What We Repair

Every Dent. One Standard.

From a single door ding to hail across every panel. Same craft, same factory-finish result, every time.

No Repaint

Door Ding Repair

Door dings, body dents, creases. Restored without touching the factory paint.

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Act Fast

Hail Damage Repair

A storm leaves dozens of impacts. We work each one. Insurance handled directly.

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Electric Cars

EV & Tesla Dent Repair

Dents and door dings on any EV, Tesla to Rivian. Aluminum bodies a specialty.

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Major Damage

Big & Large Dent Repair

The body shop says new panel. We look at the paint first.

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Mobile Service

Bumper & Scratch Repair

Scuffs, scrapes, and curb rash blended back to factory color. Mobile at your home or office.

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Learn the Craft

PDR Training

Hands-on paintless dent repair training from a tech in the trade since 1991. Two students max.

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What We Do

Precision Repair Services.

Three lines of work, one standard. Paintless dent repair, bumper repair, and the training that keeps the craft alive.

01 · Paintless Dent Repair

Factory metal.
Factory finish. The way it was built to leave.

Metal reshaped from behind the panel. Your OEM paint stays untouched. No matching, no blending, no body shop record. The most precise repair method in the industry, performed by a craftsman who's been reading metal since 1991.

  • Door dings & parking lot damage
  • Body panel creases & dents
  • Hail damage · single to full vehicle
  • Shopping cart impacts
  • Fleet & dealer reconditioning
  • High-line & luxury vehicles

02 · Bumper Repair

Original bumper.
Factory appearance. No replacement. No repaint.

Plastic scuffs, cracks, and impact damage restored to factory appearance. Faster and cleaner than replacement. Your original bumper, factory painted, brought back to new condition without disturbing surrounding panels.

  • Surface scuffs & scratches
  • Minor cracks & flex repairs
  • Impact reshaping
  • Color-matched refinishing
  • Front & rear bumpers
  • Mirror housings & trim

03 · PDR Training

35 years of craft.
Passed down right. One tech. One student at a time.

Myke has trained technicians throughout Southern California. One-on-one instruction: tool technique, light reading, metal behavior, and the business side of running a real PDR practice. No classroom. Just the car and the light.

  • One-on-one instruction
  • Tool technique fundamentals
  • Reading & working light reflection
  • Metal behavior & panel types
  • Business guidance available
  • Flexible scheduling
35+ Years Reading Metal Myke, in PDR since 1991
2001 Family-Founded By Myke & Mary Toledo
1K+ Five-Star Reviews Google, Yelp, Facebook
Mobile Bumper Repair · San Diego County

Scuffed Bumper? That Is Not a Body Shop Job.

Most scuffs, curb rash and corner scrapes are repaired and refinished at your home or office, in a few hours, without the bumper ever coming off the car. A body shop will quote you a full repaint because that is what a body shop does. It is rarely what the damage actually needs.

The question that decides everything

Is the paint broken, or just marked? Run a fingernail across it. If your nail glides over and the mark smears, it is sitting in the clear coat and it polishes out. If the nail catches, the color layer is open and that panel needs refinishing. Those are two completely different jobs at two completely different prices, and you are entitled to know which one you have before anybody quotes you.

Plastic also has memory. A bumper pushed in without the paint breaking often comes back to shape with controlled heat and pressure from behind, and nothing gets refinished at all. Color never enters the price on those.

  • Corner scuffs, curb rash and parking scrapes
  • Bumper dents where the paint is still intact
  • Cracks bonded from behind, structure first, then color
  • Color matched to your paint code and blended, not sprayed edge to edge

Mobile across San Diego County and the south end of Orange County. Larger or structural damage routes to the Escondido shop, and we tell you that before anything is booked.

Porsche Taycan rear bumper masked off for a mobile refinish in San Diego Masked and refinished at the customer's location, San Diego

Bumper Dent, Paint Intact

$250 to $300
1 to 2 hours

Plastic has memory. Controlled heat and pressure from behind bring the shape back, and nothing is refinished, so color never enters the price.

Corner Scuff or Scrape

$395 to $600
2 to 4 hours

The most common bumper job there is. Price follows the color, the depth, and whether the plastic is punctured or torn. A tri-coat finish takes more stages than a flat color.

Cracks or Full Refinish

$550 to $750
3 to 4 hours

Larger damage, cracks bonded from behind, or a full bumper refinish. Structure comes back first, then color.

These are real ranges from real jobs, not a menu. What moves the number is the color, how deep it goes, and whether the plastic is torn or punctured. A tri-coat finish takes more stages than a flat color. Send photos and you get a preliminary range back, confirmed once a technician sees it.

Mobile Bumper Repair, In Full Panel Scratch Repair
The Craft

The Work, Up Close.

PDR is a hand skill, not a product. Here is what happens between your photos and your keys back.

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The Read

Reflection

A light board reveals every high and low before a tool touches it.
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From Behind

Rod Work

Metal massaged back to its original plane. No paint touched.
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No Access

Glue Pull

Pulled from the surface when there is no way behind.
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The Proof

No Trace

Checked under raking light before the keys go back.
Why It Matters

Your Car Deserves Better Than A Body Shop.

A body shop sands the panel, fills it, and repaints. That means a panel that no longer matches your factory paint. Even a near-perfect color match is still a match, not the original.

PDR works from behind the panel. The metal is massaged back without ever touching the paint. No Carfax record. No permanent change. Factory finish.

Factory Finish

The original paint stays on the car, identical to every panel.

No Carfax Record

PDR is never reported. Body work lowers resale value. PDR does not.

The Better Option

PDR Isn't the Cheaper Choice. It's the Better One.

Most people have never actually thought through what happens when a body shop fixes a dent. They sand the panel, work in filler, respray the area, and hope the color comes close enough. The result can look fine, even great, but the original factory finish is gone. And there is a Carfax entry attached to your vehicle record that every future buyer will see.

PDR works from a completely different premise. The metal that was shaped at the factory is still there. Myke accesses it from behind the panel and works it back, not to an approximation, but to its original position. No filler. No paint. No record. The dent is gone, and nothing else about your car changed. That distinction matters more than most people realize until the moment they are selling.

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PDR (Dent Time)Body Shop
Paint Disturbed✓ Never✗ Always
Carfax Record✓ None✗ Likely
Factory Finish✓ 100% preserved✗ Resprayed
Turnaround✓ Same day✗ Days to weeks
Resale Value✓ Fully protected✗ Often reduced
Result Quality✓ Factory-perfectDepends on match
Before You Hand Over Your Keys

Don't Get a Bad Repair.

Paintless dent repair has no licensing body. Anyone can buy a set of rods, call themselves a technician, and the work looks finished on the day. It shows up later, under garage lighting or against a painted parking line, long after they stopped answering. Every panel below came to us after somebody else worked on it.

Clear coat cracked on a BMW hood after a dent was forced with the wrong tool
Forced With the Wrong ToolOver-pushed until the metal stretched and the factory clear coat cracked for good. Past this point the only fix left is paint.
Holes drilled straight through a BMW door and left unsealed during a bad dent repair
Drilled, Then Left OpenThe panel was bored through instead of reached properly, and never sealed. The bare edges are already rusting from the inside out.
A raised high spot with clear coat stretched thin after one push too far
One Push Too FarA heavy hand left a raised crown where a barely-there dent used to be. A high spot is harder to bring back than the dent ever was.
Body filler bubbling and splitting along a door edge months after a repair sold as paintless
Filler Dressed Up as PDRSold as paintless, actually packed with filler and painted over. Months later it is bubbling and splitting along the edge.

A cracked finish or a stretched panel is permanent. Knowing what to look for costs you nothing.

See How to Spot a Bad Repair
Behind the Paint

What's Behind a Door Dent Repair?

A car door is not one panel. It is a thin outer skin over an inner frame, with a reinforced impact beam, a window track and regulator, wiring, and a speaker packed behind it. A door ding on the open skin is a clean paintless dent repair. The same dent sitting over the impact beam or behind the regulator has to be reached from the back, and that is what changes the work and the price.

It is why two door dings that look identical from the outside can be two different repairs. One is massaged out from behind in minutes with the factory finish untouched. The other needs the door panel, and sometimes the glass, removed and reinstalled first to reach the metal. Neither is a flat rate, because the honest number depends on what sits behind that exact spot.

So we read the panel before we quote. The price reflects the real door dent repair, not a number pulled to win the call. Either way it stays paintless, with no filler and no repaint, the factory paint kept, and nothing on the Carfax. See exactly what drives the price.

This is why we give a preliminary price range, never an exact quote sight unseen. An exact cost before anyone sees what is behind the damaged panel would be a guess, and a guess is where surprise charges come from. You get an honest range from your photos up front, then the firm number once the panel is seen in person. No bait, no upsell, just the real cost when it can actually be known.

Car door factory paint, the finish you see from the outside
Inside of the same car door showing the impact beam and bracing behind the panel
What's Behind It Factory Finish

The same door, inside and out. What you can't see is exactly what sets the price.

Your dent may not be on a door, and that changes very little. Hoods, fenders, quarter panels and tailgates all have structure behind them too: braces, reinforcement bars, brackets, wiring, and on a hood the whole underframe. Some spots on your car are wide open from behind and take minutes. Others sit directly over a brace and have to be reached a harder way, or reached after something comes off first. That is the single biggest reason two dents that look the same are not the same price.

How It Works

From Photos to Factory Finish.

Four steps from your first photo to keys back. No guesswork, no pressure.

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Send Photos
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Get Your
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Book Your
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Fixed
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Step 01 of 05
Send Photos
Snap your dent and send it over.
No appointment needed to start.
Step 02 of 05
Get an Estimate
ESTIMATE $197 – $450
We assess the photos and give you a real range, fast. No games.
Step 03 of 05
Book Appointment
SCHEDULE M T W T F
Pick your time. We'll confirm it.
Shop or mobile, your call.
Step 04 of 05
Technician Arrives
DENT TIME MOBILE SHOP
We come to you, or you come to us.
Your choice. We're ready either way.
Step 05 of 05
Fixed!
LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED.
Your car is restored. Not just improved.
That's the Dent Time standard.
The Work

Factory Finish. Restored.

Drag the handle to reveal the repair. These aren't filtered photos. This is the standard.

Chevy Traverse driver door after paintless dent repair
Chevy Traverse driver door before repair
Before After · 100% Factory Paint
Chevy Traverse · Driver Door
✓ Practical Tier Chosen

The damage: A heavy door impact. Metal displaced across a wide section of the panel. Body shops were quoting paint and replace.

The result: Panel restored to factory-flat without a single brushstroke of paint. Two repair options were on the table. The owner chose Practical. Same PDR precision, same factory finish, at a price that made sense for the vehicle. Zero Carfax record.

Time in Shop1 Day
Premium Option$1,750–$1,945
Practical ✓$1,255–$1,375
Rivian R1S rear quarter after paintless dent repair
Rivian R1S rear quarter before repair
Before After · 100% Factory Paint
Rivian R1S · Rear Quarter
Premium Repair

The damage: A significant rear quarter impact. Deep displacement across a wide section of the panel, with metal showing stretch. The kind of damage most body shops won't attempt on an EV.

The result: Rear quarter worked back to factory contour over three days of precision repair. Aluminum panels. Original finish intact. No replacement. No Carfax entry.

Time in Shop3 Days
PaintOriginal
Repair Range$4,500–$7,000+
PDR Pricing · San Diego

How Much Is PDR Dent Repair?

Most paintless dent repair jobs in San Diego land in these ranges. Your exact price is free and comes back in minutes after you text a photo. You approve the number before a tool touches the car.

Door Dings
Standard parking-lot dings
$197–$250

A clean ding or small body dent, massaged out with the factory paint untouched.
Medium Dents
Golf ball to baseball size
$275–$500

Deeper or wider damage on a door, fender, or quarter panel. Same flawless finish.
Creases
By length and depth
$225–$600+

A line dent along the body. Worked out section by section without breaking the paint.
Large Dents
6 inches and up
from $500+

The body shop says new panel. We look at the paint first and often save it.
Hail Damage

Priced by the storm and the panel count, usually $1,500 to $8,000 or more. This is the one repair where insurance usually makes sense. We work every panel, keep the factory finish, and handle the claim with your insurer directly.

File & Repair

What Moves Your Price

Every price depends on the dent depth, where it sits on the panel, and the access behind it. Panel material matters too. High-strength steel and aluminum take more skill and time. Most repairs also come in two finish levels, so the result fits your vehicle and your budget.

Complete satisfaction or no charge applied. Factory finish. No Carfax record. Your written quote is free and confirmed in person before any work begins.

Instant Ballpark

What Will Your Repair Cost?

Answer four quick questions for a preliminary range. Your exact price is confirmed in minutes after a photo review.

Interactive · Why It Varies

Build Your Dent. Watch the Price Move.

Set the size, where it sits, and the metal. The estimated range and the reason update live, the same way a real quote does.

Dent size Small dent
Quarter-sizedCredit-card sizedHand-sizedDinner-plate sized
Where it sits
Panel material
Estimated PDR range
$197 – $230
Base size Location Material

A small dent on a flat panel, in standard steel. Flat panel, standard steel, clean access. This is base price.

A range, not a final price. Text two photos and you get the real number, usually within minutes.

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Results That Speak for Themselves.

Questions

Straight Answers.

Send clear photos of the damage, a few angles in good natural light, to the booking link or to 858-408-6200. Myke personally reviews every submission and responds with an honest assessment, usually within minutes. No automated quotes, no guessing from descriptions alone.

PDR is ideal for dents where the paint is not cracked or broken: door dings, parking lot impacts, body panel creases, hail damage, and shopping cart hits. If the paint is compromised or the metal is stretched beyond what PDR can address, Myke will tell you that upfront and point you in the right direction.

No. PDR does not generate an insurance claim or body shop record, so there's nothing to report on Carfax or similar vehicle history reports. Your factory paint stays intact, which is a significant factor in resale value. A body shop repair, even a good one, shows up. PDR doesn't.

Most repairs are completed the same day. Smaller repairs can be done in under an hour. Larger jobs like multi-panel hail damage may take a full day. Myke will give you an accurate time estimate when you schedule, and he'll let you know if anything changes.

If you're not completely satisfied with the result, no charge is applied. That's not a marketing line. It's the standard Dent Time has operated on since 2001. A repair done right doesn't come back, and a result you're not happy with isn't a result Myke is happy with either.

Yes. Myke regularly works on high-end vehicles: exotics, collector cars, and luxury imports, where factory paint preservation is especially critical. The standard of care is the same regardless of the vehicle, but the attention to detail matters most when the stakes are highest.

Ready to Start?

Your Car Should Look Right.

Don't let a dent follow you around. Text a few photos and we give you a real, specific estimate. Most come back the same day.

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