Let’s face it, it is easy to get a dent in your car. From something caused by mother nature to someone who can’t control their shopping cart and everything in between dents on your car’s body will happen. Some people like to leave dents on their car, it’s a badge of honor for them and exhibits their car’s toughness, which they believe symbolize their toughness. For those people Dent Techs is not for you. For everyone else who wants their car to be free of as many dings and scrapes as possible, removing dents has never been easier. But besides the ease of which a dent can be removed there is another thing to keep in mind, you car’s resale value.
How much do scratches devalue a car?
The general appeal of an automobile to prospective buyers is one of the main ways that dings, cracks, and scratches can lower its value. Deep scratches and surface damage will be obvious and will certainly stand out to the buyer as a negative, as anyone who has sold a car before will know. The buyer will likely stroll around the car to undertake a visual assessment.
Your car’s general desirability and the preferences of the prospective buyer will determine how much scratches, dents, or chips may reduce its resale value. Some private purchasers might decide against buying a car at all if it has exterior damage.
If damage or planned repairs are not accurately described while trying to sell, you will probably get less money than you had anticipated. To prevent this, you could want to have the damages fixed before listing the car for sale, but depending on how much the car is worth and how much the repairs will cost, this may not be an affordable solution.
Take care of the outside of your vehicle
The resale value is something that every car owner has to think about. We all have heard that a car’s value loses 20% the moment it drives off of the dealer’s lot and it is possible with some models to be worth less that half of what you paid for it within three years time. There are some things that you, the car owner, can do to keep your car’s value up as high as possible like keeping up with regular maintenance and keeping the interior of the car clean. A potential buyer wants to know that the car they are buying has been taken care of. So before you sell, think about what the car looks like on the outside as well.
Small bits of damage can hurt you
Small dinks and dents can add up, especially for an appraiser or a picky buyer. Just one or two dents or paint scrapes can be the difference between the vehicle being appraised as good or fair. With 80% of all used cars falling in the fair category it would behoove any seller to do as much as they can to make their vehicle stand out and removing dents can do wonders. The easiest way to remove those dents is to use Paintless Dent Repair.
There is a reason that many auto auctions use Paintless Dent Repair on their vehicles before selling them. If auto auctions, which do nothing other than sell vehicles, do it you should too. It is a small investment that can return as much as 50% profit profit for every dollar spent and this is something that you can take advantage of as well. If you are going to sell your vehicle it would behoove you to take advantage of this. You want to get as much money for your car don’t you?
Paintless Dent Repair is quick, easy and affordable
Paintless Dent Repair does not harm the paint of the car and can be done while you wait for the vehicle. It does not require a week-long stay at an auto body shop or collision center. It is covered under most insurance plans and when compared to other methods of dent removal it is relatively inexpensive. Hail damage, dings and small creases can also be fixed using this method so even if you are not selling your car why not give it a try?
There are some people who will drive their car until it dies and are not worried about resale value. For the other 99% who will want to sell their car and get a new one removing dents and dings can be one of the easiest and most affordable things you can do for your car to increase its resale value. At Dent Techs out technicians are trained with the latest equipment and techniques to remove all of those pesky dents, dings, scratches and creases and restore your car’s exterior to its factory condition. You can’t ask for more!
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