The horizontal panels take the worst of it: hail, branches, and anything that falls from above.
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Call (636) 928-0082Your hood, roof, and trunk lid take a beating that your doors and fenders mostly avoid. They're the horizontal, upward-facing panels, which means they catch hail, falling branches, dropped tools in a parking garage, and anything else that comes from above. They're also the first dents people notice.
These panels present their own access challenge for Paintless Dent Repair. A hood or trunk lid usually has more support structure underneath than a door, so reaching the dent can take a different angle, sometimes through factory access points and sometimes after interior liners or trim are moved aside. A roof is its own category entirely, since there's no way to access it except through the headliner, and not every roof dent is a safe candidate for that. Trunk lids can bring their own complications too, with spoilers, third brake lights, or wiring harnesses sometimes needing to be worked around.
If your hood, roof, or trunk is covered in a pattern of small, similar-sized dimples rather than one isolated dent, that's almost always hail damage, and it gets assessed and repaired a little differently than a single impact dent. We'll take a look and let you know which situation you're dealing with.
Roof repairs specifically call for extra care beyond just the dent itself. Before we access a roof dent through the headliner, we check for sunroof mechanisms, wiring for antennas or interior lighting, and structural ribbing that varies from one vehicle to the next, all things that affect whether it's safe to access from inside and how the repair needs to be approached. It's also part of why not every roof dent can be reached the same way, and why we always look at the specific vehicle before quoting anything.
Whatever put the dent there, we'll check access on your specific vehicle before quoting. Bring your vehicle in for a free look and we'll tell you honestly whether it's a clean PDR job or something that needs a different approach.
Hood, roof, and trunk dents are a panel problem. Hail across those panels starts at hail damage repair in St. Peters, and the no-paint hail method is paintless hail dent repair. A single impact, including one that needs paint, is dent removal in St. Peters.
A hood or trunk lid has braces underneath, and a roof is reached through the headliner. That access is the extra work compared with a door ding. Not every roof dent is a candidate for pulling the headliner.
A field of similar small dimples on the hood, roof, or trunk is usually hail. One isolated dent is usually a single impact. We can tell you which one we are looking at during a free inspection.