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Dent to done: real before and after, under the reflection board

Same car, same panel, every time. The left photo is the damage, the right is after paintless dent repair. The only test that matters: does the reflected light line bend, or run straight?

Every job below was done in Adelaide with mobile service and the original factory paint left untouched.

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Group 1Two dents

Before repair, Group 1: bonnet — the reflected light line is kinked and sagging over the dent — BeforeDent

Repaired in 1 hour.

Bonnet

Two dents in the bonnet, pulled back to a flat reflection

Both reflection lines run unbroken again

Dark bonnet, one dent on each side. Before repair both reflection-board lines were kinked and bent away at the dents. After repair the lines run edge to edge and the panel is back to its factory crown — original paint, no filler, no respray.

A classic two-dent bonnet job: the light tells you exactly where the metal was low, and it now reads straight.

Group 2Crease

Before repair, Group 2: bonnet — the reflected light line is kinked and sagging over the dent — BeforeDent

Repaired in 2 hours (aluminium panel).

Bonnet

Orange bonnet: a hard crease smoothed into an even curve

From a jagged highlight to one clean arc

Close-up on an orange bonnet. The damaged area broke the reflected highlight into a jagged edge. After repair the highlight reads as one continuous, even curve with no shadow line left behind.

Creases like this hold stress in the metal, so it is worked out slowly rather than pushed flat in one go.

Group 3Car-park ding

Before repair, Group 3: front right door — the reflected light line is kinked and sagging over the dent — BeforeDent

Repaired in 2.5 hours.

Front right door

Door panel: a bent vertical reflection straightened out

Two vertical lines, straight and evenly spaced

Silver door with the handle and character line in frame. The vertical reflection-board lines were visibly bent at the ding. After repair they sit straight and evenly spaced, and the panel is flat again.

The usual car-park ding — small to look at, obvious to the reflection board.

Group 4Large crease

Before repair, Group 4: front right door — the reflected light line is kinked and sagging over the dent — BeforeDent

Repaired in 4 hours.

Front right door

Long crease along the lower front door, pressed out flat

Door gap and character line back in alignment

Lower half of a silver sedan's front door. The crease ran horizontally and folded the reflection at a hard angle. After repair the same reflection runs clean, the door gap and character line line up, and the paint was never touched — PDR tools are still on the floor in the shot.

Larger creases are where paintless work earns its keep: the panel comes back without a panel-shop quote.

Group 5Hail-style dents

Before repair, Group 5: front guard — the reflected light line is kinked and sagging over the dent — BeforeDent

Repaired in 6 hours.

Front guard

White front guard: hail dents above the wheel arch recovered

Reflected lines level and evenly spaced again

Left front guard of a white car, dents sitting above the wheel arch near the headlight. The reflected lines sagged at each dent before repair; now they are level and evenly spaced and the panel contour is back.

After a hail event we map every dent on the panel first, then work them out together so the finish stays even.

Group 6Large dent

Before repair, Group 6: front right door — the reflected light line is kinked and sagging over the dent — BeforeDent

Repaired over 5 business days.

Front right door

Black front right door, one big dent: from wavy reflection to mirror flat

Flat enough to mirror the car opposite

A large dent across the lower half of a black door. Before repair the reflection was crushed into waves and stretched out of shape. After repair it is flat enough to mirror the straight edge of the white car parked opposite.

Big dents on dark paint show everything, which makes them the most honest before-and-after we can show you.