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<blockquote data-quote="FullAuto" data-source="post: 1975046" data-attributes="member: 5110"><p>That's going to be an eye opener for you. Not saying there aren't people that do it, but that's not a skill developed over a few months. </p><p></p><p>Hail claims that are 100% PDR are the minority. Most will have some kind of conventional repair on specific panels. Even if 100% PDR is written, break paint on a single dent and you have to paint. So you'll need to be good at R&I everything required to paint various panels and you'll either need to paint them yourself, your subcontract your PDR work to a facility that does. It will be difficult to get in with shops since they already have specific PDR guys they use and backups to those. And the good PDR guys subcontract to shops. The bad PDR guys run their own business because real shops won't hire them. </p><p></p><p>Or you can be a hail chaser and set a tent up in a parking lot or lease an old, closed gas station. Work around everyone's deductible, leave panels looking like chicken skin, don't wash the car and be gone by the time the customer is disappointed. That's the majority of PDR businesses. I've met many of them on the east side of OKC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FullAuto, post: 1975046, member: 5110"] That's going to be an eye opener for you. Not saying there aren't people that do it, but that's not a skill developed over a few months. Hail claims that are 100% PDR are the minority. Most will have some kind of conventional repair on specific panels. Even if 100% PDR is written, break paint on a single dent and you have to paint. So you'll need to be good at R&I everything required to paint various panels and you'll either need to paint them yourself, your subcontract your PDR work to a facility that does. It will be difficult to get in with shops since they already have specific PDR guys they use and backups to those. And the good PDR guys subcontract to shops. The bad PDR guys run their own business because real shops won't hire them. Or you can be a hail chaser and set a tent up in a parking lot or lease an old, closed gas station. Work around everyone's deductible, leave panels looking like chicken skin, don't wash the car and be gone by the time the customer is disappointed. That's the majority of PDR businesses. I've met many of them on the east side of OKC. [/QUOTE]
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