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Our mobile repair warranty, St. Pete

A dent, a bumper, a wheel and a headlight lens fail in different ways, so each gets its own cover, written in plain words.

Check if we can fix it Call (656) 236-2374

A written price first

From your photos, before the van rolls. Nothing gets added on site.

A straight no

If paintless won’t work, you hear it before anybody drives.

We come to the car

Your driveway or the lot at work. No shop, no waiting room.

No trip charge inside 25 miles

Past that, the charge is printed on the price.

What’s covered

Cover that matches how each repair can fail

For as long as you own the vehicle

Paintless dent repair

A dent worked out properly does not come back. There is no filler curing under there, nothing shrinking, nothing to lift — the metal has been moved back to where it started and the factory finish over it was never disturbed. If a panel we repaired ever shows that dent again, we come back and it costs nothing.

What that does not cover is the same panel getting hit again. A previously repaired area is not weaker, but it is also not immune, and a new dent in the same spot is a new dent. We will tell you honestly which one we are looking at, and the shape usually answers it before either of us has to argue.

Twelve months against the finish failing

Bumper cover repair and refinishing

Peeling, lifting, flaking, cracking or clouding of what we sprayed. Those are adhesion and material faults, they are ours, and they show up inside a year if they are going to.

It does not cover the cover being scraped again, which is not a defect, it is a parking lot. It also does not cover a repair that has since been polished with a compound aggressive enough to cut through fresh clear, or that has been through a brush wash inside the first forty-eight hours — fresh material is still hardening for days after it looks dry, and a spinning bristle will find that out.

Twelve months against the finish lifting or corroding at the repair

Wheel refinishing, cosmetic

If the filler edge telegraphs through, or the coating lifts off the repaired lip, that is a preparation fault and we redo it.

It does not cover curbing it again, and it never covers anything structural, because we never did anything structural. A cosmetic wheel repair is a finish. If a rim we refinished later turns out to be bent or cracked, that is not a warranty matter for the finish — it is a wheel to take off the car. We check for both before we start precisely so that this conversation does not happen later.

Twelve months against the new UV coating failing

Headlight restoration

If it hazes, peels or yellows inside the year, we come back and redo it.

Be aware of what you are buying. The bar for this job is genuinely low across the trade — a great many restorations are a machine polish and a wipe of sealant, they look excellent for a fortnight, and in Florida they are chalky again before the next summer. The lens is not what fails; the factory UV hard coat on top of it is. So the coat comes off completely and a new UV clear goes on, and that is why it takes an hour and not fifteen minutes. If somebody has already sanded your lenses and left them uncoated, say so — they will be worse than untouched and it changes the job.

Twelve months against the bond letting go

Trim, moldings and cladding

, provided nothing has been pressure washed along the edge and no dressing has been worked underneath it. Adhesive tape is a chemical bond to a clean surface, and a jet of water at close range under an edge will break it as surely as a screwdriver.

The small print, in plain words

What ends a warranty

Somebody else has worked over ours

Touch-up over a bumper repair, a compound cut through fresh clear, a second shop sanding a wheel we refinished. Once another set of hands is in it we cannot tell whose fault the failure is, and neither can anybody else.

New damage in the same place

A fresh dent, a fresh curb, a fresh scrape. We will look at it and be straight with you about which it is, and in most cases the shape of the damage settles the question on its own.

A repair we told you would not be perfect

If a difficult dent was quoted as an eighty per cent result and it came back eighty per cent, that is the job we described and the job you agreed to. That is exactly why it is written on the estimate before the van moves rather than explained at the curb afterwards.

If something goes wrong

How to claim

Call (656) 236-2374, send a photograph of the panel, and mention the job number if you still have the work order. Inside the twenty-five mile ring a warranty visit is free, including the trip. Outside it, the repair is still free and the trip charge for your ring still applies, which we would rather state plainly here than discover together on the phone.

Something not right with a repair?

Send a photo of it. If it’s ours, the van comes back and it costs you nothing.