We take hail damage, door dings, and single-panel dents out of the metal from behind the panel, so your factory paint is never sanded, filled, or resprayed. The shop is 23 miles from downtown Kansas City, a free loaner is waiting, and most cars go home in 5 to 7 days.
426 Miami St, Leavenworth, KS 66048 · (913) 907-5180
Most people in Kansas City have never had it explained to them, and that is the single biggest reason they end up at a body shop instead. Paintless dent repair means a technician reaches behind the panel with specialized rods and pushes the metal back to its original shape, a fraction of a millimeter at a time. There is no body filler, no sanding, no primer, and no paint booth.
That matters because the paint your car left the factory with is the only coat it will ever have that was baked on by the manufacturer. Once a panel is sanded and resprayed, it reads as refinished for the rest of the car's life, and refinished paint is exactly what a dealer's paint-depth gauge is built to find.
A body shop has to pull the panel apart, fill it, sand it, prime it, spray it, bake it, blend the neighboring panels, and put the car back together. Every one of those steps sits in a queue behind other cars. Roughly three weeks is the honest number for that process, which is why the shop your insurer recommended keeps your car through two weekends.
We skip every step that involves paint. On a typical hail car we are moving metal, not waiting on a booth, and most vehicles are finished in 5 to 7 days. The same crew also repairs dealer inventory at a partner dealership site in North Kansas City, which is high-volume hail work on cars that have to come out resale-clean or the dealer does not take them.
Hail is what most people call about, but it is not all we do. Parking lot door dings, a crease in the rear quarter from a shopping cart, a dented hood from a falling branch, and single-panel damage from a low-speed bump all come out the same way, as long as the paint surface itself is not broken.
The reflex of "it is only a few dents, I will live with it" is the expensive one. Damage that looks minor in your driveway is still damage on the panel, and it follows the car to trade-in, where an appraiser walks it with a gauge and writes the deduction straight into your offer.
We run an Argus 3D scanner over the car in a single pass. It maps every dent on every panel and produces insurance-grade documentation of exactly what is there. It takes roughly 10 minutes, it costs you nothing, and you do not have to open a claim to get it. If you cannot get out to Leavenworth, ask us to come to you: when we can get a tech out your way, the first look happens at your place, and it is free either way.
If you do go through insurance, we bill your carrier direct and write the supplement ourselves, so you are not the one on hold explaining panel counts. Depending on your policy and deductible, a comprehensive hail claim often lands at or near $0 out of pocket. Every panel we repair carries a lifetime warranty.
426 Miami St, Leavenworth, KS 66048. That is the shop for anyone who owns their car, and it is about 23 miles from downtown Kansas City in a straight line. We also run a repair site at a partner dealership in North Kansas City, but that one is dealer inventory only, so do not drive there with your own vehicle.
You make it once. A free loaner is waiting when you drop the car off, so you leave in something you can drive all week rather than arranging rides. The alternative is roughly three weeks without your vehicle at a body shop that repaints the panel. One trip out, 5 to 7 days, and the factory paint is still on it.
Most repairs run 5 to 7 days, against roughly three weeks at a body shop doing the same damage with paint. Heavy hail across a lot of panels can run longer, and the 3D scan gives us the real number before you commit to anything. The loaner is yours for the whole time we have your car.
It works when the paint surface is unbroken, which covers the large majority of hail and door ding damage on both steel and aluminum panels. Very sharp creases, damage right on a panel edge, and dents over interior bracing are the usual limits. The free scan answers it for your specific car in about 10 minutes.
The factory paint is never touched, so there is no refinished panel for a dealer's paint-depth gauge to flag. Unrepaired hail damage is the thing that shows, and it is what gets deducted from your trade or lease turn-in number. That is the whole reason to fix it before you sell.
Ten minutes, no claim required, and you leave knowing exactly what is on your car.
Or call (913) 907-5180 and talk to a dent tech, not a call center.