Estimating Damage on Your Tesla Vehicle

Here at Beach Collision in Huntington Beach California our Tesla Approved Body Shop beings the process with the intake of your Tesla. During your drop off we first have you complete consent and acknowledgement forms while we simultaneously record the condition of your vehicle through photos and video. This is the first step in our checklist. We also do a "code" scan of your vehicle to verify and insure that no other vehicle error messages both known and unknown come up. This could be anything from damage related to your accident, maintenance / service or warranty recall items.

 

There are multiple secondary stages of data collection on your vehicle as well. The thickness of the paint on your vehicle is checked to confirm or verify that it wasn't repaired or repainted or possibly over polished or buffed by your local car wash or detailer. This is important as the clear coat of your vehicle must have a minimum thickness in areas where "blends" may take place.

Additionally we also visually inspect what is referred to as "Panel Gaps." In this intermediate stage we check all gaps to confirm their similarity to one another and in comparison with the opposite side of your vehicle. Any irregularities in these gaps is a potential indicator that damage has traveled further through your vehicle.

Depending on what is seen visually, your vehicle may be moved to a lift to gather photos of the under carriage and line of sight mechanical components.

With this preliminary report also known as the initial estimate we have an approximation of damage that can be seen. This of course is all prior to any disassembly and in depth inspection and analysis.  

At this phase for simplicity sake of a brief overview, we contact your insurance provider or if applicable the responsible third party's insurance company to provide them the initial information that has been gathered. This is the preliminary phase of damage analysis.

 

Once we have completed the preliminary phase as briefly summarized above, we will reach out to you for an additional authorization to being the blueprinting process that requires disassembly of your Tesla in the areas where the visibly and immediately know damage has been seen from photos. This process allows Beach Collision LLC as the Tesla Approved Body Shop to find associated damage and any unknown damage that was not obvious to the eye in the initial estimating phase. Any an all information gathered here serves multiple purposes but for conversation sake here the two main reasons are for parts ordering and repair planning. The extent of the damage and the parts that are to be repair or replaced will be matched up to Tesla's body shop program OEM repair procedure documents. These procedures dictate in detail the steps that will be take to restore your Tesla to Tesla's approved specifications. This data also correlates to hours and materials and yields the total repair cost in labor plus parts. The subtotal reached is added to any other necessary services and procedures for a grand total on what is referred to as a "Supplement" or better described as an updated estimate of repair cost to the insurance company.

 

Please note that all of the information above is provided as a simplified overview to ease of understanding by the average person. There's a number of additional fine details and factors that may apply or have effect. Therefore if you have any additional questions, please reach out to us and we are happy to share, discuss and inform you in relation to your specific vehicle and where we are at with the process of getting your Tesla back to you.