Your car has been dented, and you’re wondering whether to bother fixing it, and how. It’s yet another expense that you don’t need right now, and you’re sorely tempted to try and fix it yourself. Don’t.
First, let’s be honest here. If you already have experience fixing automotive dents, and you already have the appropriate tools for the job, then you can ignore this. You’re either working in a shop anyway, or you’re otherwise enough of a gearhead that you might as well be. If that’s not you, read on.
You may like cars and have some experience working on them, but don’t have the specific tools for it right now, or you might be mechanically inexperienced. You could buy some tools, and you suppose that it can’t be too hard to fix a dent.
Please don’t waste your time that way. If you don’t already have the right tools for the job, getting them is obviously going to cost some money. If you want to go that route, remember this: you get the quality you pay for.
If you buy cheap tools, you’re almost certainly going to end up disappointed. Higher-quality, more reliable tools will cost more, but they’ll do the job right. Considering that, you’ll still have to spend the time to actually remove the damaged body panels and work on them. It’s a fairly simple task, but it does take some time and effort.
That’s also where the matter of skill comes into play. If you don’t know how to effectively repair the dent already, you run the risk of further damaging your car and its resale value, including by doing an incomplete job. Severe enough dents can expose the metal body to the elements, and begin the cancerous process of rusting out the vehicle. If your car is already a clunker, this is less of an issue, but if you ever hope to get some good value out of the car when you eventually sell it, it becomes a major consideration.
Dent repair kit manufacturers will lead you to believe that you can easily repair your dents yourself, in an effort to get you to buy their products. We aren’t saying that they’re wrong, because depending on who you are, maybe it’s true. But if your car is important to you, and you don’t have the skill to fix it, or you don’t have good tools, you’ll probably be better off trusting the job to experts like us, who already have both! We will happily put in the time and labor for you, so bring your dented vehicle to a professional body shop.
