PDR training - Warsaw

Individual training or training for a workshop

An individual participant can focus on their specific technical gaps and their own learning pace. For company training, we adapt the programme to the type of repairs the team carries out, the tools they have, and how they plan to use PDR in the workshop.

For companies from Warsaw, it's also possible to arrange classes at their own site, if the available workspace and conditions allow the practical part to be run safely.

The scope can include

• setting up and reading the PDR light
• working with rods and hooks
• controlling high points
• the glue-pulling technique
• classifying damage for PDR
• difficult body lines, aluminium and hail damage at an advanced level

Matching the training level to the participant's experience

Someone starting from zero needs a different programme from a bodywork technician who's worked with panels for years but is only now taking up PDR. At the start, the most important things are orienting the tool relative to the reflection under the light, controlling individual pushes, and understanding how the metal responds to correction. Only on that basis does it make sense to increase the difficulty.

With experienced participants, we can move faster to body lines, limited access, the glue-pulling technique, aluminium, or organising work across a larger number of dents. Before driving from Warsaw, we establish the training goal, so class time is spent on exercises the individual or the team actually needs.

What practical training gives you that theory alone doesn't

PDR is a manual skill. You can know how the light and tools work in theory and still not have the control needed to carry out a repair. During the class, the instructor sees whether the participant is correctly locating the tool tip, how hard they're pressing, whether they're creating high points, and at what point they should change direction.

That kind of immediate correction shortens the path to correct habits. The participant doesn't just get told the result isn't good enough - they understand exactly which movement, light setting, or order of work led to it.