Door Dings & Dents
The everyday Brooklyn damage — dings from the car parked too close, dented doors, shallow fender dents. Usually done same day with the original paint untouched.
Dent Repair / PDR
Paintless dent repair (PDR) removes dents in Brooklyn without repainting, keeping your original factory finish. Door dings, parking-lot dents, creased panels and hail damage removed without repainting wherever the paint allows it. Frontline Automotive keeps your factory finish and your resale value intact.
A dent does not automatically mean a repaint. If the paint surface is unbroken, the metal can usually be massaged back to its original shape from behind with PDR rods and glue-pull tools. No filler, no sanding, no blending — which means no color-match risk and no refinish line for a future buyer to spot.
This is the right approach for the damage Brooklyn drivers get most: dings from tight street parking, shopping-cart dents, a dented door from the car beside you, shallow hood and roof dents after a storm. It is faster and less expensive than conventional bodywork, and it keeps the original finish that a repaint can never fully replicate.
When PDR is not the right call — cracked paint, a stretched crease, damage on a panel edge or over a sharp body line — we say so and quote conventional repair with a proper spectrophotometer color match instead. You get the honest option, not the one that is easiest to sell.
The everyday Brooklyn damage — dings from the car parked too close, dented doors, shallow fender dents. Usually done same day with the original paint untouched.
Dozens of shallow dents across hood, roof and trunk are mapped and worked out panel by panel, then billed to your comprehensive claim when you have that coverage.
Longer creases take more time and skill. We assess whether the metal will return cleanly or whether conventional repair and refinish will give a better result.
Because there is no filler cure time, primer, paint or bake cycle, most single-panel work is completed the same day you drop off.
No refinish materials and no blending labor means PDR is typically the least expensive way to make a panel right again.
Original factory paint means no paint-meter readings, no mismatched panel and no repaint history on the panel we fixed.
Send photos of the dent or stop by 1903 Broadway. We tell you immediately whether PDR will work on that panel.
Trim, liners or lamps are removed so the technician can reach the underside of the dent without damaging anything.
A reflective light board reveals the exact high and low points of the dent that the eye alone cannot see.
The metal is worked back in small increments with rods or glue-pull tabs, checking the reflection constantly.
The panel is polished, trim goes back on, and the surface is inspected under multiple light angles.
You look at the panel with us before you pay. If it is not right, it is not finished.
When the paint is cracked, refinishing is the correct fix.
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Send us a photo or bring it to 1903 Broadway in Brooklyn. Most dings are handled the same day, with your factory paint left exactly as it is.