Paintless Dent Repair and Removal at Patrick Auto Body and Collision in Schaumburg & Naperville IL

It's an unfortunate truth: dents and dings occur over time and gradually decrease your vehicle's value!

When you bring your vehicle into a Patrick Auto Body & Collision Center near Chicago, our highly-qualified will take a look at your vehicle to determine the shape, depth and how far the metal on your car has been "stretched" due to the dent. The smaller and more shallow the dent is, the more Paintless Dent Repair (also known as PDR) is a viable and affordable option to get it fixed and looking like new.

Patrick Auto Body & Collision offers two options for Dent Repair in Schaumburg and Naperville, IL.

A wide range of damage can be repaired using paintless dent repair as long as the paint surface is still intact. Paintless dent repair may be used on both aluminum and steel panels.

Paintless dent repair is a process that uses specialized tools to gently push and pull the dented metal on your vehicle back to its original form. This produce permanently removes any door dings and minor dents without harming the vehicle's original factory finish.

Unfortunately, you may have seen As-Seen-On-TV advertisements about specific devices or internet DIY videos that claim that if you use a special tool or some household items, a car body panel can simply be popped back into place. In reality, when a body panel is bent, it stays that way; whether the bend was from a press at the factory or from an impact to the vehicle. To remove a dent from a body panel, qualified body technicians must use a variety of tools and techniques to gently bend and reshape the metal back to the original shape that it should be.