Beginning life in the car factories of Europe, it didn't really reach the retail market place until the mid to late eighties where specialist dent removers took advantage of the stricken car dealers hail damaged stocks.
With a repair time of less than a third of conventional panel shop repair and paint methods, paintless dent removal soon took-off in those areas of the world ravaged by summer hailstorms. Nowadays, most car dealers worldwide take advantage of the quicker, cheaper method of paintless dent removal. However, the concept is still relatively new amongst the general public.