The paint is cracked or chipped
Pushing a dent under broken paint opens the crack, and then the panel needs a repaint it didn’t need before. That’s a body-shop job, and we say so.
Mobile dent repair. We come to your driveway.
Send photos. A written price comes back the same day.
Get a quote from photos
Send photos of the damage. Get a quote back.
A dent, a scraped bumper or a curbed wheel: send a couple of photos from your phone. A person at dispatch sends back a price, or tells you straight that it isn’t a job for us, and you pick a day for the van.
Send photos
Right in the chat. It tells you which angles help: straight on, then low with a reflection across the damage.
Get your quote
Written by a person at dispatch from your photos, usually within the hour.
Pick a day
Say yes, choose a day, and we text you to confirm the time.
From your photos, confirmed at the car. Rather talk it through? Call (656) 236-2374.
What the van fixes
The dings, scuffs and curb rash, fixed where you parked.
Eight kinds of work, all done at the car. Each page says how long it takes on site and when we’ll tell you no.
01Paintless dent repairRead on a line board, worked out from behind the panel. No filler and no repaint.Learn more02Door dingsThe parking-lot ding, fixed where you parked. Most are gone, not just improved.Learn more03Hail damageA field of small dents across the hood and roof, priced panel by panel.Learn more04Bumper scuffsPlastic is not steel. Scuffs and scrapes refinished and blended at the corner.Learn more05Curb rash wheel repairCosmetic curb rash on the lip, after every wheel is checked for bends and cracks.Learn more06Headlight restorationCloudy lenses taken back to clear, with a new UV coat so they stay that way.Learn more07Trim and moldingsBody-side moldings and arch trim re-taped, with the one-use clips replaced.Learn more08Fleet repairDings, scuffs and ladder rub across your vans, done in your yard in one visit.Learn more
Today’s board
Six jobs, two vans, and one we turned down.
A crease with cracked paint needs a body shop, so we said so before anybody drove. Every job ends with a work order on your phone, including the work we looked at and wouldn’t do.
- Hail across the hood and roofClearwater · driveway · 2019 compact SUVDone
- Three vans: dings and ladder rubLargo · contractor yard · one invoiceDone
- Two door dings, a curbed wheel, two lensesClearwater · office lot · 2021 sedanWork order below
- Bumper corner scuffSt. Petersburg · driveway · 2017 pickupVan 2 on the way
- Two curbed wheelsPinellas Park · driveway · 2020 sedanWaiting on photos
- A crease with cracked paintLargo · 2015 hatchbackSent to a body shop
Job 4417’s work order: three repairs, and one refusal printed at $0.00.
From a recent job
Work order
01$165.00
Door dings ×2, rear driver’s door: paintless
About one inch and two inches, both round, both in the flat of the panel below the body line. Read on the line board first: the reflection ran unbroken across both, so the paint was whole. Worked from behind through the window channel. No glue, no drilling, no filler. Gone.
02$0.00
Paintless repair on the crease, driver’s door: DECLINED
Looked at and not attempted. The paint has hairline cracks along the crease, so the metal is stretched and the finish has already let go. Pushing it out would open the cracks and the door would need paint anyway. It needs a body shop, and we said which one.
03$135.00
Curb rash, front left wheel: cosmetic
Spun for runout and checked around the inner barrel for cracks before anything was touched: straight, no cracks. Outer lip sanded back, filled and refinished to match the painted face.
04$90.00
Headlight lenses, both sides: restored
The factory UV coat had gone chalky across the top third of both lenses. Wet-sanded, polished, and a new UV clear laid on. Housings sealed and dry inside.
05$0.00
Travel: inside the 25-mile ring
Clearwater is inside the ring, so there is nothing to add. Outside it, the trip charge is printed on the price before the van moves.
Total, three repairs$390.00
How we read a dent
The reflection tells us before a hand ever could.
A striped board stands beside the panel and the tech watches its reflection move across the damage. It shows the dent’s shape, and whether the paint is whole.
- Straight lines: sound metal. Nothing to fix.
- Lines that bow and crowd: a soft dent. That one comes out.
- Lines that kink into a V: a crease. The metal is stretched, and that one’s a no.
Honest limits
When paintless won’t work, we tell you first.
Paintless repair has hard limits. Here they are before any money changes hands, not after.
A sharp crease
A round dent comes back. A crease has stretched the metal, and it leaves a line you’d see every morning. We’d rather send you somewhere that can fix it right.
No way in behind the panel
The rod works from the back. If the only way in is drilling a hole we’re not happy with, the answer is no.
A bent or cracked wheel
Curb rash is cosmetic. A rim that’s out of round or cracked is a safety item, and it never gets filled and painted over.
Who we work for
Your car, or the whole fleet.
Private owners
A ding from the grocery store, a bumper that met a post, a wheel that met a curb. We come to your driveway or your office lot.
- Price from your photos, before the van moves
- Most dings done in about an hour
Fleets and work vans
One visit to your yard, one invoice, and a straight note on which units aren’t worth fixing. Fewer vans off the road.
- Dings, ladder rub and bumper scuffs
- Worked around your schedule
Ask dispatch
Not sure the van can fix it? Ask.
The chat asks the questions a tech would ask at the car, like whether a fingernail catches on the paint, and tells you straight when it’s a body-shop job.
It won’t price anything itself. A person at dispatch reads your photos and answers with a yes, a no, or a written price.
Curbside dispatchThis is the chat on this page
Whether the van can fix it depends on what’s on the car. What is it?
Tap one to start. A person at dispatch picks it up from there.
Reviews
What Pinellas drivers say
4.9138 Google reviews
Kelly R.Clearwater · 1 week ago
Two door dings from the office garage. Sent photos at 8, had a price by 9, and Nate fixed both in the lot while I was in a meeting. I honestly can’t find where they were.
Darnell M.St. Petersburg · 3 weeks ago
He told me the crease on my door was a body shop job and wouldn’t take my money for it. Did the two dings and the curbed wheel instead. That honesty is why I’ll call again.
Sandra P.Largo · 1 month ago
Hail got the hood and roof of my SUV. Luis set up a canopy in my driveway and worked on it two days. The written sheet panel by panel made the insurance part easy.
Where we go
Two vans out of St. Petersburg
No trip charge inside 25 miles. Past that, the charge is printed on your price before the van moves, never found at the end.
- St. Petersburg
- Clearwater
- Largo
- Pinellas Park
- Seminole
- Gulfport
- Dunedin
- Safety Harbor
- Palm Harbor
- St. Pete Beach
- Treasure Island
- Indian Rocks Beach
- Kenneth City
- Belleair
Straight answers
Questions we hear at the curb
Do you need my power, water or a hose?
No. The van carries its own inverter, compressor, lighting and water. Nothing plugs into your house or your office. What we do need is room: about twelve feet clear on the working side of the car, on reasonably level ground.
Do I have to be there?
Usually not. Plenty of jobs are done on keys left at a front desk or in a lock box. Door work often means taking the inside door panel off, so the car has to be unlockable, and we tell you that when we quote. For paint work we’d rather you saw it before we pack up.
Will the dent be completely gone?
Often, yes. A soft, round ding in the flat of a panel usually disappears. A sharp dent, one on a body line, or one that has sat in the panel for years can come back most of the way and leave something you could find in low sun. You’re told which before you agree to anything.
Can you fix it if the paint is cracked?
Not with paintless repair, and we won’t try. Cracked paint over a dent means the metal is stretched and the finish has already let go. Pushing it out opens the crack. We check for it in your photos and again at the car.
Is there a trip charge?
Not inside 25 miles of St. Petersburg, which covers Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Seminole and the beaches. Past that it’s $45 or $95 depending on the distance, and it’s printed on the price before the van moves.
Park it. We’ll come to it.
Send photos of the damage. Dispatch tells you yes, no, or the price, and the van comes to wherever the car is parked.