A PDR shop you can route to. Erie first.
Mike Acevedo is the owner-operator of Dent Sorcery in Bethlehem PA. ARC-Master certified, 19 years on tools, 1,000+ jobs fixed, 218 five-star Google reviews. He doesn’t direct-bill today — he’s working toward a Direct Repair Provider relationship with Erie first. If you’re the desk adjuster who would be involved in that conversation, this page is for you.
The carrier-side math. Plus the workmanship math.
Six factors that matter to a desk adjuster making a routing decision — every claim Mike runs is built around them.
- Cost to the carrierCloses at 30–50%
No paint cost, no body-filler labor, no rental-car days. A PDR claim closes at roughly 30–50% of a comparable body-shop estimate.
- Supplement rateNear zero
Mike quotes off the original photo set and honors the price — he doesn’t hunt supplements after the fact. Quotes are written to land.
- CertificationARC-Master · 2020
Earned by submitted-portfolio review — one of roughly 200 PDR technicians in the active North American network.
- Who touches the carOne tech, every car
No service-writer triangle. The hand that quotes the car is the hand that fixes it — photo documentation per panel, every job.
- Panels replacedZero, ever
19 years on tools and 1,000+ jobs fixed, and Mike has never sent a panel to body for replacement. The metric is the discipline.
- WhereBethlehem-rooted
3005 Brodhead Rd · 30-mile mobile radius · 218 five-star Google reviews — the most-reviewed PDR shop in the Lehigh Valley.
Four carriers. Erie biggest.
Mike has written estimates for these four carriers in the last 12 months. Erie is the largest carrier in the Lehigh Valley and the explicit DRP target. State Farm and Geico are also big in the region. Progressive runs roughly 5 adjusters covering the entire Lehigh Valley, so claims through Progressive take longer to move.
- ErieDRP target
- State Farm
- Geico
- Progressive
Other carriers? Same workflow. Customer files the comp claim, carrier sends them a check minus deductible, Mike writes the estimate so the carrier has the right number, customer pays Mike. Mike has not been on a DRP panel before — that’s the conversation he’s open to.
30-mile radius from Bethlehem.
Mike works mobile across the entire Lehigh Valley plus parts of upper Bucks and western NJ. Larger jobs (full hail vehicles, multi-panel work) typically come back to the Bethlehem shop at 3005 Brodhead Rd.
- Bethlehem
- Allentown
- Easton
- Whitehall
- Hellertown
- Emmaus
- Macungie
- Coopersburg
- Quakertown
- Center Valley
- Souderton
- Nazareth
- Phillipsburg
- Clinton NJ (exception)
ARC-Master certified · 2020.
Started in the auto industry in 2007 as a detailer at Bennett Infiniti in Bethlehem. Trained in PDR under his mentor starting with the summer 2010 Lehighton hailstorm — spent a full year disassembling cars after hours before his first solo job in summer 2011. Earned the ARC-Master credential in 2020 by portfolio review. Founded Dent Sorcery LLC the same year.
- 19 years on tools
- 1,000+ jobs fixed
- 218 five-star Google reviews
- Zero panels replaced, ever
Interested in adding a PDR-only DRP partner? Let’s talk.
Direct contact, no service-writer triangle. Mike is the only person you’d be working with. Phone, email, or in-person at the Bethlehem shop — whatever works for your team.