Every guide is grounded in real repair work at our Plano shop and technically reviewed by founder Vytas Kucinskas before it carries the reviewed label. Sources and review dates are shown on every page.
Cosmetic hail damage stops at the outer panels: the frame, suspension, brakes and drivetrain are untouched and the car drives normally.
It is worth doing, but not to help the existing dents. Sheet metal will not relax back in the heat and will not worsen in the sun.
It depends entirely on documentation. A shop may lawfully discount its own price, and that discount belongs on the invoice with the true repair cost reported to the insurer.
The biggest red flags are a single lump sum with no panel breakdown, no VIN or vehicle details, no removal-and-installation lines on work that clearly needs disassembly, large cash deposits before any work, guarantees about what insurance will pay, and blank spaces…
Ask whether the dent can be repaired without paint, how the technician will access it, and whether anything is drilled.
Legitimate exclusions fall into four groups: new damage that happened after the repair, pre-existing conditions such as prior filler or cracked paint, work another party performs on the same panel, and agreed limits documented before the job started.
Yes. DentPicks runs one shop, in Plano, and covers the rest of the metroplex with complimentary pickup and delivery on insurance-approved hail claims — the vehicle is collected from a home, workplace or apartment lot and returned the same way.
Both ends of the trip should produce the same record: date, time and location, a photographed odometer and fuel or charge level, a full walk-around of every panel, all glass and all four wheels, interior shots, and signatures from both people present.…
Paintless dent repair itself creates no vehicle-history record, because nothing about it generates a reportable event.
Yes. Reporting a hail loss is a phone call, app entry or web form, and none of it requires you to be with the vehicle.
Usually yes, if the hail damage is real. Your lease makes you responsible for the vehicle's condition, and the lessor's excess damage charge is generally priced at dealer retail rates, so a comprehensive claim often costs less than the bill you would…
Neither is automatically better. A skilled mobile technician handles door dings, small creases and easily accessed panels well, and saves you a trip.
Send us photos of the damage or schedule an inspection at the Plano shop — we'll tell you honestly what your vehicle needs, what it should cost, and whether a claim makes sense.
Someone from the team will get back to you. If it is urgent, call (866) 336-8767 and you will reach the Plano shop.
