The Dent Shop are the Paintless Dent Removal or PDR specialists in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

Dents and Dings are often seen as one of those things that just happen, that may be true however independent market research has shown that 50% of car buyers would not purchase a vehicle with a cosmetic dent - even with a substantial price reduction, and in some cases would rather buy a car without dents with a higher mileage, as a car with high mileage can be shown it was looked after but a car with dents demonstrates neglect.

Using our Paintless Dent Removal (PDR) service gives you the opportunity to remove these dents from your car not only giving you the best price when you come to sell but also restoring those annoying dents from your pride and joy.

Paintless Dent Removal (PDR) is a highly specialised and skilled process which takes many months of training. The advantage of using PDR is that we are able to remove minor dents on vehicle panels without the need for body filler or paint which means dents can be removed for a fraction of the cost.

Dents don't just "pop out" as some people think and you cant use suction cups or other myths you may have heard of and attempting or trying to remove dents yourself will actually make it more difficult or even impossible for us to repair properly.

Paintless Dent Removal, commonly referred to as PDR, has taken the vehicle repair industry by storm and has quickly become the preferred method for repairing door dings, dents and minor damage.

This dent repair process is used by many people in the automotive industry including car dealers, rental and fleet car companies, and car auctions.

The Paintless Dent Removal (PDR) process involves gaining access behind the panel, then precisely massaging and manipulating the dent, until the panel is back to its original condition. In the majority of cases, this method of dent removal is at least 90% accurate leaving no trace of the dent, which to an untrained eye is unnoticeable.

Common dents caused from leaving your car in a car park or accidentally nudging a bollard that doesn't break the paint are often a pain and due to high insurance excesses and the risk of loosing your all important no claims bonus these dents and dings are not claimed on your insurance, that's were we come in our services are cheaper than the usual body shop and we don't use horrible fillers or paint your car which in most cases just never seems to look right, we are able to use our specialist tools and expertise to massage the dent back to it's original
shape.

Another popular reason to use our Paintless Dent Removal services is that it is kind to the environment, using this method means we don't have to replace panels, use fillers or paint for this process there are no chemicals going into the atmosphere, and panels don't have to be thrown away.

We currently repair dents in all of Hertfordshire and the surrounding areas from our workshop in St Albans, however due to our reputation of being able to repair the impossible and the high standard of work we produce we have had customer travel to us from all over the country for us to work on their car.

As well as Paintless Dent Repair we also offer Scratch repair and minor accident damage repair these techniques involve us using SMART Repair techniques. SMART stands for Small Medium Area Repair Techniques these techniques allow us to repair just the damaged area of your car saving you money on your car repairs. Our paint system is totally waterbased including the lacquer these products are the latest products in the refinish industry we use waterbased products due to the fact they are the most environmentally friendly products available and give you an amazing finish. Using these latest technologies allows us to give you the best repairs possible. We mix and colour match all our paints in-house this means we can get the best match possible for your car.