Car Dent Repairs in Wigan

Geographically. Wigan town centre, Standish, Leigh and Ashton-in-Makerfield are spread out enough that the sensible approach is to work through them in order rather than crossing the borough twice in a day. When you ring, we will tell you which part of the area we are next due in, which often means a sooner date than you expect.

Urgent jobs are handled differently. If something needs doing quickly, say so on the phone and we will look at what can be moved rather than putting you at the back of a route. The quote itself comes back within 24 hours of your photos landing, free and with no obligation, and it says clearly whether the job is mobile or one for Radcliffe.

• WN1 to WN6 covered across the borough
• Fifteen miles and about thirty minutes via the A58 and M61
• Standish, Leigh and Ashton-in-Makerfield on the same run
• Home and workplace visits, weekdays until 20:00
• Free collection and delivery for body shop jobs

Parked car knocks first. Town centre and supermarket bays produce the standard door ding: a small, sharp dent in a door skin with the paint intact, which comes straight back out with rods worked from behind the panel. There is nothing to repaint afterwards and the factory finish stays untouched, which is always the better outcome.

After that it is impact damage from bollards, kerbs and low walls, which tends to break the paint as well as push the metal in. Those repairs are done in two stages: the dent worked out as far as it will go, then the damaged area alone flatted back, primed, mixed to your paint code and lacquered. Motorway stone chips on the same car are quoted at the same time.

It depends on whether the paint is still intact. If it is, the dent comes out from behind using paintless dent removal. The technician finds access through a window aperture, a light gap or a wheel arch, then uses long steel rods to push the low spot back up in small increments, reading the reflection off a line board to judge the panel shape.

PDR works because modern panel steel and aluminium have memory. Pushed slowly and in the right order, working from the outside of the dent inwards, the metal returns close to where it started with no filler and no paint. The original factory finish stays on the car, which is the best result available for both appearance and resale value.

Where the paint is cracked, chipped or scraped, PDR on its own is not enough. The dent is worked out as far as it will go, then the area is flatted back, filled if the profile needs rebuilding, primed, colour matched to the manufacturer paint code and lacquered. Only the damaged area is refinished, which is what SMART repair, Small to Medium Area Repair Technology, actually means in practice.

Wigan is fifteen miles from Radcliffe by the A58 and M61, and the borough is spread out enough that we plan visits as a route rather than a single call. Standish, Leigh and Ashton-in-Makerfield are usually covered on the same day.

We work throughout Wigan and the WN1, WN2, WN3, WN4 postcode areas, typically 30 minutes from the body shop at Radcliffe, M26 4AD. That includes Wigan town centre, Standish, Leigh and Ashton-in-Makerfield.