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Same panel, photographed. Removal means gone from every angle, and if it is not right under the line board, no charge is applied.
The dent comes out. The factory paint stays. Removed by hand at your driveway or our Escondido shop, from $197, most jobs same day.
Yes, when it is done right. Car dent removal is what you typed. Paintless dent repair is how it actually happens. The metal is worked back to its original shape from behind the panel, by hand, under a light that shows every high and low spot. Nothing is filled, nothing is repainted, nothing goes on the Carfax.
The other version of removal, grinding the spot down and burying it under filler and fresh paint, does not remove a dent. It hides one, and the vehicle history remembers. If your paint is intact, the dent can simply be gone instead. That is the work we have done in San Diego since 2001, on everything from door dings to large dents, on steel and on aluminum.
Flat-panel steel starting points. Location, material, depth, and access move the number, and the full factor math lives in why dent removal cost varies.
Same panel, photographed. Removal means gone from every angle, and if it is not right under the line board, no charge is applied.
Two photos and a few details is all it takes. One of the whole panel, one close up. A technician reads them personally and sends back a real range, usually within minutes during business hours. Nothing is booked and nothing is charged until you say so.
Our technicians live across San Diego County, so dent removal at your location is the normal day, not the upgrade. Bigger repairs route to the Escondido shop where conditions are controlled. Same hands, same standard, either way. The full mobile picture is on mobile paintless dent repair.
A straight-on shot and one at 45 degrees. A technician replies with your actual range, usually within minutes, and you decide from there.
The suction cups and glue pullers promise removal for $60. What they deliver, on the honest days, is a smaller dent with a new high spot beside it, and a high spot shows from across a parking lot. We took the whole question apart, including the real odds a kit lifts your paint, in do dent pullers actually work. Read it before you spend anything, even if you never call us.
Dent Time covers all of San Diego County and south Orange County, and we fix car dents where the car sits, your driveway, your office lot, or the Escondido shop for the bigger jobs. One technician start to finish, working the metal until the dent looks perfect at all angles. The estimate form takes about a minute and a real person answers it.
Yes. Dent Time is a full auto dent removal service for San Diego County and south Orange County: door dings, creases, body line dents, large dents, and hail, on steel and aluminum, at your location or at the Escondido shop. Every removal is done by hand with the factory paint kept, and every estimate is answered by a technician, not a call center.
Yes, when it is done right. Car dent removal is what most people type, and paintless dent repair, PDR, is the method that actually removes the dent instead of covering it. The metal is worked back to its original shape from behind the panel, the factory paint is never touched, and nothing lands on the Carfax. The other route, filler and repaint, hides a dent rather than removing it.
Standard door dings run $197 to $250. Medium dents from a golf ball to a baseball run $275 to $500. Creases run $225 to $600 depending on length and depth, and large dents run $500 to $4,000. The factors that move the number are size, location on the panel, metal type, depth, and access behind the panel. Text a photo and a technician sends the real range in minutes.
Yes, whenever the paint is intact. That is the entire point of paintless dent repair: the dent is removed and the factory finish stays exactly as it left the factory. If the paint is cracked or chipped, the metal can still be restored and the paint handled separately, and we tell you which situation you have before you spend anything.
Yes, mobile is our default. Our technicians live across San Diego County and cover south Orange County, so most dent removal happens at your home or office. Bigger or more complex repairs run through the Escondido shop where the conditions are controlled. Either way the standard is the same.
A standard door ding takes one to two hours. Most single dents land between that and a few hours, and multi-panel damage can take a day. Most work is same day, and you get a time estimate with your price before anything starts.
Rarely to a finished panel. Even the shallowest dent leaves a high spot after a suction or glue pull, and a high spot shows from farther away than the dent did. We wrote an honest breakdown of what the kits can and cannot do, including the real odds a glue tab lifts your paint.
No. Metal returned to its original plane holds its shape the same way it did before the impact. A dent removed right stays removed, which is why Dent Time backs the work with a complete satisfaction guarantee or no charge.
Ask any shop three things: how long the technician has been reading metal, what happens if the result is not right, and whether you can see the panel under a line board before paying. Myke Toledo has been removing dents since 1991, trains PDR technicians worldwide, and Dent Time has served San Diego County since 2001 with over 800 five star reviews across Google and Yelp.
Text a photo and a real technician, removing dents since 1991, sends back an honest range in minutes. No bait price, no surprises.
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Send two or three photos from different angles and Myke gets your preliminary estimate moving.