Paintless Dent Repair for a 2022 Tesla Model Y in Leawood, Kansas

This Pearl White Model Y belongs to a Leawood homeowner near Town Center Plaza. A spring storm rolled through and left the frunk lid, roof glass surround, and rear quarters dimpled with hail. Paintless dent repair was the only route the owner would consider — a respray on a Tesla's factory white is a color-match headache nobody wants.

Teslas need aluminum hail repair, and that's exactly where most shops hesitate. The Model Y's aluminum and mixed-material panels behave differently under a PDR tool than steel — stiffer, more stubborn, and demanding heat-assisted technique and glue-pull methods. We do all of it in-house, with no third-party body shop and no extra week tacked on. Our aluminum hail repair page walks through how we handle EV and aluminum-bodied vehicles panel by panel.

The owner filed online, handed us the claim number, and stepped back. We picked the Model Y up from Leawood on a covered trailer, ran the LED inspection, counted 41 dents, and documented them in CCC ONE format before coordinating with the carrier. Comprehensive insurance covered the work and most customers in this position pay nothing out of pocket. Our hail damage insurance claim hub explains the whole flow.

The Model Y returned to Leawood with its factory Pearl White paint untouched. No repaint, no filler, nothing on the CARFAX. We handle a growing number of EVs and luxury vehicles with paintless dent repair in Leawood, and protecting the factory finish is always the priority. For related jobs, see how we handled a 2023 Tesla Model 3 in Leawood or a 2024 Rivian R1T in Overland Park.

The reason we keep aluminum work in-house comes down to control. Plenty of shops sublet EV and aluminum jobs to a third party, which adds a week and puts your car in hands you never chose. We handle the Model Y start to finish in the Olathe shop — heat, glue-pull, and patient line-board checking on panels that fight back harder than steel. The factory Pearl White came through untouched, the owner skipped the deductible with our assistance, and the whole thing happened without farming the car out. On a vehicle this specialized, that single point of accountability is worth a lot.