Do any of you guys offer PDR with your detailing services?

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I’ve been looking at incorporating PDR services with my detailing for some time now. To me it just makes sense to have the two of them together. I’ve heard of a pretty good training center in Florida. I have to go to Florida during the first quarter anyway for coating certification. I would like to line the two up together while I’m down there.

Anyone have any thoughts or comments on this?
 
Yes, and we have a great guy who does amazing work. I notate them on the VIF and mention to the customer if they want to take care of them. I take good pic's (as best as possible) send them to my guy who works up a quote. The mark-up for me is insignificant, but the results are stunning and makes for a better customer experience.
 
LSNAutoDetailing said:
Yes, and we have a great guy who does amazing work. I notate them on the VIF and mention to the customer if they want to take care of them. I take good pic's (as best as possible) send them to my guy who works up a quote. The mark-up for me is insignificant, but the results are stunning and makes for a better customer experience.
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I know of another shop that does that as well. Have you ever thought about doing the PDR yourself?
 
I think it takes a lot more skill/ knowledge than you appear to think. There's a lot of, would you say, having a touch ( from having a lot of experience) involved.

Maybe if one was just to concentrate on door ding type jobs you could do it. But I don't think taking a class is going to get you anywhere near being a PDR guy.

Just my take from having looked into it a bit.
 
^^^^ what he said ^^^^ It's so much easier to call someone who has already been doing it a long time and arrange a deal with them. The guy I call is retired, and enjoys doing it on his time and is very good. The pay per ding is not very high for the amount of skill and travel, so from his retired perspective it's good..
 
ducksfan said:
I think it takes a lot more skill/ knowledge than you appear to think. There's a lot of, would you say, having a touch ( from having a lot of experience) involved.

Maybe if one was just to concentrate on door ding type jobs you could do it. But I don't think taking a class is going to get you anywhere near being a PDR guy.

Just my take from having looked into it a bit.
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No doubt. I know I’m not going to take a 2-3 week class and be a pro. I am just doing the class because I will already be down there anyway. I am looking at this class as more of a starting point than anything. I didn’t learn how to detail in a couple weeks. So I don’t expect to learn PDR in a couple of weeks. I know it’s going to be a long road ahead. I can just take the jobs depending on what skill level I’m at, at that point of my learning. I just thought it would be a good skill set to have and it would be a extra option to add to my detailing portfolio.
 
I sub it out as that's something that takes years of experience to perfect. I have a older gentleman that is phenomenal. Actually he will be here this weekend doing some work for me.
 
The other thing too. Is the area I live in doesn’t have anyone doing PDR. That’s another reason I started considering it.
 
Like has been said,,it takes years to perfect,,we have some PDR tools around the shop and have dinked around on backrow beaters but I would never even think about attempting it on a customer car.

The guy we sub it out to is OK,I've seen better.,,,one guy I know says it nots not only knowing how to do it but when to stop on a difficult area or not bother with it all
 
PDR is an art form. Years to master but if your willing to spend the time, I say go for it. Makes sense to combine it with detailing!! You can get experience by trying on your current clients perhaps. Good luck!!
 
PDR is a full time gig. The training and the cost of the specialized tools make it difficult to get into. I would either be a detailer or a PDR guy, but there is no harm in learning something new. Who knows you may go into it full time.

The PDR guy I use flies all over the world to ply his craft. He says he could work 7 days a week if he wanted to. The good ones are in high demand. He got out dents I would have bet money he wouldn’t have been able to touch, pretty amazing.
 
Dr Oldz said:
PDR is an art form. Years to master but if your willing to spend the time, I say go for it. Makes sense to combine it with detailing!! You can get experience by trying on your current clients perhaps. Good luck!!
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I agree it is amazing some of the work I’ve seen people do with it. Like I said before I know it’s going to be a long road ahead. But I kind of look at it as I do detailing. I didn’t know what I was doing when I started out. If you keep going at it and keep studying you can master anything. I still learn something new detailing after 10 plus years. I’m sure PDR will be no different in that aspect. I do wholesale vehicles for a family members lot and I can pretty much do whatever I want to those vehicles. I figured that would be a good place to start learning. That’s how I learned to use a rotary and to polish.
 
Vanquish Auto said:
I agree it is amazing some of the work I’ve seen people do with it. Like I said before I know it’s going to be a long road ahead. But I kind of look at it as I do detailing. I didn’t know what I was doing when I started out. If you keep going at it and keep studying you can master anything. I still learn something new detailing after 10 plus years. I’m sure PDR will be no different in that aspect. I do wholesale vehicles for a family members lot and I can pretty much do whatever I want to those vehicles. I figured that would be a good place to start learning. That’s how I learned to use a rotary and to polish.
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You never know until you try!! Sounds like you have a good starting point! You are never too old to learn something new! I agree with you. You can master anything if you put your mind to it.
 
Luckily my niece married a tech from Dent Wizard. He just went through a 2 month training session in St Louis to get certified. He is a pro.
 
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