Paintless dent repair

The Paintless Dent Removal is a technique to repair small dents in vehicles that have arisen, for example, by hail or parking damage. It is carried out by professionals who are colloquially referred to as bumps or Dell doctor or presser, using special tools. The body part in question must not be painted after the beating, so the costs are lower. The selective repair of paint damage is called spot repair.

Ausbeulfachbetriebe are usually partner companies of car insurance companies that use the paintless dent removal as a calculation basis for the hail damage repair. According to a judgment of the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe workshops are encouraged to apply for the removal of damage this method ..

Lever technique

The so-called lever technology has been around since about 1970 in the major automotive plants where small dents that have arisen during production, have been repaired without repainting. Later this technique was also introduced into the automotive repair industry.

Dell Press

In the technique of suppressing the Dell dents of the rear side of the sheet to be selectively pressed out with the help of specially bent steel rods. To find the exact point on the opposite side of the dent at work, special lamps, shields or panels are used. These tools project with the help of mirroring parallel lines on the paint of the vehicle. If the reflection of parallel lines placed over the dent, then distortions can be seen. By gently pressing and targeted at the back of the dent it will back down until the lines run parallel again.

Adhesive technology

In recent years, an adhesive technique is increasingly applied, which is a bit more complicated though, but also the processing of inaccessible components allows the vehicle such as roof frame. In this case, an adapter is applied with a special hot glue to the painted surface and pulled by a Zughammers or pliers. In this case, the sheet metal to be worked deformed back.