PDR Simulator: Paintless Dent Repair

You've watched it a hundred times. Now do it yourself.

A crumpled door, a line board, a technician working from behind the panel until the reflection runs perfectly straight. PDR Simulator puts the tools in your hands. Read the board, choose your tool, push, check, push again, and watch the dent disappear without touching the factory paint.

Made for everyone who loves PDR

• If you watch PDR videos, this is the satisfying part, done by you. Every ring that shrinks and every stripe that snaps straight is yours.

• If you're learning the trade, practice reading the board and working in the right order: edges before the center, small pushes, knock down your highs. Make the expensive mistakes here, not on a customer's car.

• If you already do this for a living, it's the craft you know, with real consequences. Over push and you get a high, rush and you crack the paint, and aluminum won't forgive you. Show your apprentice how it's done, or see how fast you can clear the board.

• If you just like a good job sim, start with a budget kit in your home garage and build your own shop, one dent at a time.

Read the board

Just like the real thing, the line board's stripes reflect in the paint and bend around the damage. Lows pull the lines in, highs push them out, and a deep dent swirls them into rings. Reading that pattern is the main skill of the game, and it gets sharper the more you play.

Real tools, real technique

• Rods push from behind and you control the pressure.

• Knockdown taps down the highs you made.

• Glue pulling from start to finish: clean the panel, glue the tab, let it cure, pull with a mini lifter or slide hammer, release with isopropyl.

• Heat gun for cold paint and plastic bumpers, and trim tools to get access.

Every panel is simulated. The metal flexes while you push and keeps only what goes past its limit, so pressure and patience matter. Push too far and you'll leave a high, stretch the metal or crack the paint, and the customer will see it.

Learn it step by step

Training in three chapters: the tools, the materials and the dents. Every lesson is a real repair on the bench. Stuck? Press "Show me" and a technician demonstrates the move. Then practise on free-play dents as often as you like.

• Arcade mode gives the metal a helping hand when you push in the right direction. Great for learning and for a relaxing session.

• Realistic mode gives you nothing but your eyes and your tools.

A dent for every day

Door dings, creases, large soft dents, hail damage, dents on body lines and behind braces. Mild steel, high-strength steel, aluminum and plastic all behave differently. Doors, roofs, hoods, fenders and bumpers in every paint colour, on hot days and cold mornings. The job board never runs dry, so there's always another dent waiting.

From the garage to your own shop

Start at home with a budget kit, flickering lights and a cold floor. Take jobs from the board or turn them down, beat the clock, and get paid for the quality of your work. Picky owners tip for perfection; cheap ones haggle. Upgrade to pro and master tools, service them before they wear out, keep up with rent and bills, and move into bigger, better shops.

Make it your shop

Decorate in a full 3D editor: tool chests, shelves, lamps, LED strips, mats and more, placed exactly where you want them. Pour an epoxy floor in your colour. Some props do real work: LED strips stop the flicker, a heater fights the cold, and the line board on your wall can become your working board.

[CLIP: 04_decorate — decorating the garage and painting the epoxy floor]

Features

• Line board reading that works like the real thing

• Simulated metal: flex, set, highs, stretch and paint cracks

• Rods, knockdowns, glue tabs, mini lifter, slide hammer, heat gun and trim tools

• Steel, high-strength steel, aluminum and plastic panels

• A training course with demonstrations, plus unlimited free practice

• Arcade and Realistic modes

• Endless jobs, customers and conditions

• Career from home garage to your own shop, with tool wear, rent and bills

• 3D shop decorating and epoxy floors

PDR Simulator is a game. It's great practice for reading the board and thinking through a repair, but it doesn't replace hands-on training with real tools on real panels.