Lucid Collision Repair in Beverly Hills.

A higher pack voltage does not change the procedure so much as raise the cost of skipping any part of it. Body work on a Lucid begins with the documented high-voltage shutdown and isolation, verified before a panel is removed and before any grinding, cutting, or welding happens anywhere near the pack or its cabling.

The battery sits in the floor and contributes to the structure, so damage assessment includes it. Underbody strikes, rocker impacts, and side collisions carry defined inspection requirements even on a car that arrived under its own power with nothing on the display. A pack that has taken an impact also has handling and observation requirements attached, and those are followed rather than judged.

Where the procedure requires high-voltage component or pack service beyond what an independent shop may perform, we tell you and route that portion of the work. That is not us declining the job; it is the part of the job that belongs elsewhere being sent there.

The Air's body makes heavy use of aluminum, which brings the same rules that apply to every aluminum-intensive car: work performed in a separated area with dedicated tooling, because steel particles that settle on aluminum embed in the softer metal and start galvanic corrosion that appears as blistering under the paint a year or two later.

Structural joints are riveted and bonded rather than spot welded, rivets are single-use, and structural adhesive gets its specified surface preparation, open time, and cure. Straightening heat is measured rather than judged, because aluminum permanently anneals above its specified range while giving no visual sign of it.

Everything structural is measured in three dimensions against specification before work begins and re-measured until it reads within tolerance. You keep the before-and-after printout along with the procedures we pulled for the car.

DreamDrive Pro is a more sensor-dense system than most: cameras, radar, ultrasonics, and lidar, which very few vehicles on the road carry. That density means more of a body repair intersects with the sensor suite than owners expect — a bumper cover, a windshield, a mirror, or a ride-height change can each disturb something that has to be recalibrated.

We complete the calibrations the procedure requires for the work performed and put the report in your file. As on every modern car, a clean post-repair scan is not the same thing as a correctly aimed sensor, and we do not present it as though it were.

Lucid has built far fewer cars than the established marques, and that shows up in two places: parts lead times, and how many people have done this before. Some body components are readily obtainable and some are not, and a back-ordered structural part on a low-volume vehicle is a genuinely open-ended wait.

So the estimate conversation on a Lucid includes availability, not just price. We establish what can be sourced and in what window before the car is disassembled, because a car sitting in primer waiting on a panel helps nobody. Where a repair requires resources only a manufacturer-authorized facility has, we say so at the start.

You are not required to use any particular shop — California Insurance Code section 758.5 puts that choice with you, and your insurer pays either way. What we owe you in return is a straight answer about what we can and cannot do on this specific car.

Lucid's finishes include metallics and multi-stage colors where a translucent mid-coat determines the final depth, so the coat count is part of the formula and appears nowhere on the vehicle. Those get a let-down panel to establish the count before anything is sprayed on the car.

Every match begins with a spray-out card rather than a code, is evaluated under corrected daylight lamps and again in real sunlight, and is blended into the adjacent panels rather than cut to a hard edge. The Air has long, flat flanks and a very smooth surface, which is exactly the shape that shows a lazy blend from across a parking lot.

Lucid Air in its Pure, Touring, Grand Touring, and Sapphire forms, and the Gravity. Collision, panel, and paint work, plus the protection and appearance work these cars are well suited to.

Alongside collision repair we do paint protection film, ceramic coating, color change wraps, and wheel refinishing on Lucids, performed in-house at our Beverly Hills shop.