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How to Choose a Auto Body Shop When You Have Been Involved in an Accident – Valuable Information
When you have had the unfortunate event of being in a automotive collision, the last thing you need is to have a bad experience with an auto body shop not doing their job. A good auto body shop will fix your car back to pre-loss condition, both in appearance and in structural and mechanical integrity. A great auto body shop will almost make you feel like the accident never happened. They should start with customer service better then you get at a good restaurant. They should ask if everyone was OK after the accident, generally, they should be more interested in your needs and concerns then their own profit margins. The sad thing is there are many body shops that are just in it for a quick buck and do not have the customer skills or even the repair skills to do the job you, or your insurance company, is paying for. So how do you weed those shops out?
I have been in this industry for over 25 years in the same area, I have worked in high quality auto body shops large and small, and have owned my own collision and custom shop in Portland Oregon for the last 8 years. In my area there are hundreds of auto body repair shops in a very small area, yet I only know a few I would trust with my vehicles. So for the most part you have to be as informed as you can, and ask alot of questions.
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Summertime Car Repairs – Dent Removal
Summer offers better dent repair weather: One of the best things about paintless dent repair is that it can be done in any weather. Because the technique gently “massages” the dent without ruining your car’s existing finish, there are no harsh paint chemicals or fillers that might be susceptible to water or freezing damage. However, if your vehicle does have a need for dent repair that might require touch-up paint, summer can be ideal. You never have to worry about the rain or other weather-related situations that might require you to stay off the roads for a few days.
Summer is the time to get out and look good: Nothing looks better than a pristine, newly washed car underneath the summer sun, but those unsightly dents and dings that might not be as noticeable when the clouds are out tend to emerge full force in the bright lights. Poorly done auto body repair might also be more noticeable in the harsh summer lights, especially if the paint color isn’t perfectly matched. Getting paintless dent repair is the best way to restore your car’s finish to that perfect original shine without sacrificing any of its original integrity.
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Paintless Dent Repair – Simple, Fast, Effective
Whenever you read about hailstorms in the Northeastern US and elsewhere, be assured that many people’s vehicles sustained damage to the body panels and sheet metal, some of it amounting to thousands of dollars. Hail damage often causes small dents or dings which are the right size and type to be repaired using paintless dent repair. Using this type of repair can often give you a pretty significant savings of time, materials, and money when compared with normal repair methods.
Maybe the term “Paintless Dent Repair” (PDR) is a new one to you, but it is simply a way to repair small dents and dings in your car’s body panels without having to repaint them. If the paint at the site of the dent is unbroken, and the dent is fairly small, PDR can normally be used to repair the dent.
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