Rivian Collision Repair in Beverly Hills.

Body work on a Rivian starts with the documented high-voltage shutdown and isolation procedure, verified before a panel is removed and before anything is cut, ground, or welded near the pack or its cabling. The pack spans the wheelbase in the floor and is integral to the platform's structure rather than bolted underneath it.

That means damage assessment includes the pack and its enclosure. Underbody strikes, rocker and sill impacts, and side collisions carry defined inspection requirements even on a vehicle that drove in with nothing displayed. A pack that has taken a hit has handling and observation requirements attached, and those get followed rather than judged.

Where the procedure calls for pack or high-voltage component service beyond what an independent shop may perform, we tell you and route that portion of the work rather than improvising a way around it.

The R1T and R1S combine high-strength steel where crash energy is managed with aluminum in the body and closures, joined with rivets, structural adhesive, and welding only where the procedure permits. Aluminum work happens in a separated area with dedicated tooling — steel dust that lands on aluminum embeds and starts galvanic corrosion that shows up as blistering under the paint a year or two later, long after anyone would connect it to the repair.

The panels themselves are the practical challenge. An R1S side is a large, flat, gently curved surface, which is the hardest shape in body work: there is nothing for the eye to be distracted by, so every wave, every high spot, and every lazy blend is visible in a reflection. Panels like these get finished with a straightedge and a guide coat rather than by feel.

Aluminum also limits what paintless dent removal can do. Aluminum has far less elongation than steel and work-hardens as it moves, so it lacks the memory the technique depends on. We evaluate honestly and tell you when pushing a dent further would crack paint rather than fix a panel.

Both vehicles ride on air suspension with multiple selectable heights, and the driver-assistance system references the vehicle's ride height and thrust line. Calibrating a camera on a vehicle sitting at the wrong height gives you a system that is confidently wrong, which is worse than one that reports a fault.

So the order is fixed: structure measured back into tolerance, then alignment, then ride height set to specification, then camera and radar calibration. The sensor set is the full modern complement — forward camera, forward radar, corner radar for blind-spot and cross-traffic warning, ultrasonics, and the surround-view cameras these vehicles rely on for parking a footprint this size. All of it calibrated per procedure, with the report in your file.

Rivian is a young manufacturer building in modest volume, and parts availability reflects that. Some components are obtainable in a reasonable window and some are not, and a back-ordered structural part is a wait no shop can shorten. We establish what can be sourced before the vehicle is disassembled rather than after.

We are not part of Rivian's certified collision network, and we say so rather than letting it be assumed. In California your insurer may recommend a shop but cannot require one — Insurance Code section 758.5 — so the choice of facility is yours. For most body, panel, and paint work an independent shop with high-voltage discipline, separated aluminum capability, and structural measuring is a straightforward option. Where a repair genuinely requires the certified network, we will tell you.

These vehicles get used, and the damage reflects it: rock chips across the nose and hood, debris rash along the rockers and behind the wheels, and curbed rims from parking a large vehicle in structures built for smaller ones. Paint protection film across the nose, hood leading edge, mirrors, rockers, and the leading edges behind the wheels is the most cost-effective decision available, and ceramic coating on top of it makes the rest of the vehicle far easier to keep clean.

Wheel refinishing is in-house, which matters on large-diameter wheels where replacing a single curbed rim is expensive. So are color change wraps, blackout packages, and full customization — all performed at the same Beverly Hills shop rather than sublet out.

R1T and R1S in dual-motor, tri-motor, and quad-motor forms, across both the original and second-generation vehicles. Collision, panel, structural, and paint work, plus protection and appearance work.

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