Removing Hail Dents from a 2016 Toyota Camry in Shawnee, Kansas

A spring hailstorm rolled across Shawnee and left this Cosmic Gray Camry covered in dents. The owner, a nurse who parks outside near her place off Nieman Road, didn't realize how bad it was until the afternoon sun hit the hood at an angle and lit up every dimple. By her count there were "a few." By our LED line-board count, there were 54 — a textbook case for paintless dent repair.

The good news with a car like this Camry is that hail damage is almost always cosmetic. Hail leaves shallow dents in the sheet metal without cracking the clear coat, which is the exact condition paintless dent repair is built for. We work each dent out from behind the panel, the factory Cosmic Gray Mica finish stays untouched, and there's nothing for a body shop's repaint to color-match. If you've been quoted for conventional bodywork, our PDR vs. body shop comparison is worth a read first.

Her total involvement was one phone call. We picked the Camry up from Shawnee, brought it to the Olathe shop, and documented the damage in the same CCC ONE format her insurer uses. People always ask about the hail damage repair cost — comprehensive insurance covers it, most customers pay nothing out of pocket, and we handle deductible assistance directly. The full sequence is on our how paintless dent repair works guide; it's about as hands-off as a repair gets.

Two days later the Camry went back to Shawnee looking like the storm never happened. No filler, no repaint, no CARFAX flag, full factory paint preserved. We handle a steady stream of sedans with paintless dent repair in Shawnee, and the pattern holds every time: moderate hail, clean repair, car back by the end of the week. For similar sedan jobs, see how we used paintless dent repair on a 2018 Honda Accord in Olathe or a 2016 Honda Civic in Merriam.

She'd braced for a body-shop ordeal and got the opposite. Her first instinct, like a lot of people, was that hail meant weeks without a car and a fight over the bill. Instead we picked the Camry up from Shawnee, kept her updated, and had it back in two days with all 54 dents gone and her factory Cosmic Gray paint exactly as it was. Comprehensive covered the repair, deductible assistance covered the rest, and her total effort came to one phone call. For a daily driver she relies on for long nursing shifts, that turnaround was the whole point.