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The Dent Devils Paintless Dent Repair "A+ rated by the Better Business Bureau "posted: November 24, 2009, 10:29 AM
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The Dent Devils Paintless Dent Repair / Euro-Tek Auto Collision Center downtown San Diego locationposted: November 23, 2009, 10:55 AM
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Dent Devils Paintless Dent Repair " San Diego Reader Best Buys "posted: November 23, 2009, 10:54 AM
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Paintless Dent Repair By Eve Kelly| Published Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
Crunch. Uh-oh. Patrick backed into my best friend’s car.
I rang up Eddie Martin, owner and master technician at the Dent Devils (619-726-6767, http://thedentdevils.com/ ), a paintless dent-removal shop. “People think of us as ‘the body-shop alternative,’” said Martin, “but in reality, the body shop is the alternative to us. Depending on the damage, I bring the car back to factory specs without using paint or Bondo. If a body shop uses Bondo or breaks the paint, then it’s not factory original anymore. On top of that, we’re usually cheaper, faster, and more environmentally friendly.”
It sounded good, so I asked how he managed it. “Paintless dent repair is done with special tools — stainless steel rods and hammers. You go in from the backside of the dent and gently massage or sculpt the metal back into its pre-existing shape. Sometimes, if you can’t access the space behind a dent, there are little pads you can adhere to the outside that will help you pull the metal back into shape — but it all depends. There are so many variables” that determine time required (and therefore cost). Prices start at $85 and go up according to the variables.
Type and severity of dent is the first of those variables. Access is the second. “Some people drill holes to get access — they might put one in a door jamb where it won’t be seen. But I think that’s sloppy, and the car is no longer factory [condition] at that point, so I don’t do that. I’ll pull stuff off the car in order to get to a dent. A roof dent can have a difficult access point, but it depends on the car. If you have a Mercedes with a sunroof, getting the headliner out properly may take hours. A BMW might take only a few minutes.” It takes skill and time to work on a dented door with airbags inside, but a dented Hyundai fender “might take only a few minutes.” Getting an estimate means bringing your car to the shop or emailing photos — one from straight on and one from a sharp side-view.
Sometimes, of course, access is impossible or the metal is overly stretched or kinked. When paintless removal is not an option, that’s when you call the alternative. Martin works in conjunction with Eurotek Auto Collision, downtown (619-239-7843). “And if you bring a car to them and it can be done paintless, they’ll send you to me.”
Martin left me with a warning. “There are scam artists out there doing dent repairs. Make sure anyone doing your repair is registered with the Bureau of Automotive Repair. There’s a link on my site where you can check that. If they don’t take the time to make sure they’re legal, what’s going to stop them from doing a bad repair?” And even a registered repairer might not be completely thorough. “Other shops that offer paintless dent repair subcontract it out; they don’t have a full-time guy like me. But you need experience to see if a problem is just cosmetic or something more serious. One time a Mercedes came in, looking like it just needed cosmetic repair on the bumper. But once the bumper was off, we saw that the crash bar was folded. If the car had been hit again, it would not have withstood the impact.”
Once, Martin did mobile repair. He stopped because “What I can do in my shop to make something 100 percent restored in five minutes might take me two hours and only end up 95 percent if I did it out of the shop.”
If you need help with your lease return, or just want to restore your investment with a face lift, drop by our shop today at 1025 13th Street, downtown San Diego, 92101
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Before you spend any of your hard-earned money and let just anyone touch your auto, for your protection, please do a simple background check with the Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR). In order to provide auto-related services in San Diego County and the City of San Diego, all service providers have to be registered with the BAR to legally perform auto body repair, collision repair, bumper repair, mechanical work, auto painting, and paintless dent repair.
Both auto body shops and mobile repair providers have to be registered with the Bureau of Automotive Repair and the City of San Diego. In addition, mobile repair providers must be registered in each city and county in which they provide services.
Click here to see if a company is legal with the Bureau of Automotive Repair
Bureau of Automotive Repair
10240 Systems Parkway
Sacramento, CA 95827
(800) 952-5210
Field Office
1310 Union Plaza Court, suite 100
Oceanside, Ca 92054
(858) 716-1025
BAR Mission:
To protect and serve California consumers by ensuring a fair and competitive automotive repair marketplace and administering a model motor vehicle emissions reduction program.
Hopefully this saves someone a lot of grief in going with the wrong company.
IMO if a company cannot take the time to legally operate in San Diego, why should you trust them with your second largest investment, and more importantly, your families' lives!
Also be sure to check out my scams section, blogs & no drilingl method for proper paintless dent repair accessTake care Eddie Martin
ps you can also check out a company with the Better Business Bureau














































































































































