Collision repair in Plano, TX.

Whichever one you had, the collision repair assessment is the same, and the estimate is free.

What we assess before quoting.

Every impact gets looked at properly before a number goes on paper, because the visible damage is rarely the whole story.

• Panel gaps and door fit, which tell you whether anything behind the panels has moved
• Bumper reinforcement, absorbers and brackets, which sit behind a cover that often looks repairable
• Cooling components and lines, since a front impact reaches them first
• Suspension and steering geometry, checked with an alignment after any repair that could have disturbed a mounting point
• Sensors, cameras and radar units disturbed by the impact or by the repair itself

Where damage goes beyond panel and cosmetic work, we tell you in the estimate rather than after the vehicle is apart. You get the full picture before you decide anything.

Color matching

Refinishing is matched to the vehicle as it looks today rather than to the paint code alone, then blended into the adjacent panels so the transition falls where the eye does not go looking for it. The full process is on our auto paint shop page.

Written to pre-loss condition.

Pre-loss condition is the standard a collision repair should be measured against. It means the vehicle comes back the way it was before the accident, in appearance, in panel fit, and in how it drives.

It matters because an estimate can be written to a number instead of to a standard. Operations get dropped, a panel gets filled where it should have been replaced, the blend gets skipped so the paint stops at a hard edge, the alignment never gets checked. The vehicle leaves looking fine under shop lights and wrong on the road three weeks later. When a carrier's estimate falls short of pre-loss condition, Extreme Hail & Collision documents the gap and takes it back to them.

Sensors and calibration after a collision.

Modern vehicles watch the road with cameras and radar, and most of that hardware is mounted exactly where impacts land. A forward radar sits behind the grille or in the bumper beam. A camera sits at the windshield. Blind spot sensors sit in the rear quarters.

Move any of them, even slightly, and the system aims somewhere other than where it thinks it does. Manufacturers require recalibration after repairs that disturb them, and a vehicle that skips it can leave the shop with lane keeping and automatic braking quietly misjudging distance.

Scanning before and after. A modern vehicle can log a fault without ever lighting the dashboard. A pre-repair scan reads every module before work starts, so damage that would otherwise surface weeks later gets into the estimate while the claim is open. A post-repair scan confirms the modules cleared once the work is done. Insurers pay for both, and skipping them is how a vehicle leaves a shop with a fault nobody knew was there.

Calibration and auto glass are the only two things we send out, both to a specialist who does nothing else, and we book and coordinate them as part of the repair. One drop-off, one collection, one invoice.

If your carrier calls it a total loss.

A carrier declares a total loss when the repair estimate gets close enough to what the vehicle is worth. The threshold varies by insurer and by state, and the number they compare against is the vehicle's actual cash value, not what you paid or what it would cost to replace.

Two things are worth knowing before you accept it.

The repair estimate itself can be wrong in either direction. An estimate padded with replacement where repair would do can push a repairable vehicle over the line. One written short can leave real damage unpaid. As an independent shop, Extreme Hail & Collision writes what the vehicle actually needs, and we are happy to look at a carrier's estimate with you before you sign anything.

The valuation is negotiable too. Actual cash value is an opinion built from comparable listings, and comparables are frequently chosen badly. Service records, recent tires, low mileage, and options all move that number. You can dispute it.

We do not buy vehicles, and we have nothing to gain either way, which is exactly why it is worth a second opinion before the tow truck comes.

What collision repair costs.

Collision estimates here are free, and the number depends on things that have to be seen rather than described over the phone. These are the variables that move it most.

• How far the impact travelled behind the panels, which is the single biggest unknown until the vehicle is apart
• Repair or replace on each panel, since a panel that can be worked back costs considerably less than a new one fitted and painted
• How many panels need paint, and how far the blend has to travel into the ones next door
• Color type, climbing from solid through metallic and pearl to three-stage finishes
• Parts, and whether they are available. Part supply decides the timeline more often than the labor does
• Calibration, if the repair disturbs a camera, radar, or blind spot sensor

Hidden damage is normal on impact work, not a sign something went wrong. When it turns up, we document it, photograph it, and file a supplement with your carrier. You hear about any change in scope from us before it happens, never on collection day.

The claim, handled

We are an independent shop, not a direct repair program member. A DRP shop is on the insurer's list because it agreed to the insurer's pricing and cycle times, a good arrangement for the carrier. We never signed one, so when an adjuster's estimate misses a part, prices an operation short, or omits the blend on an adjacent panel, we document it and file a supplement.

You choose your repair shop in Texas, regardless of what you are told on the phone. Bring us the claim number, and we will take the rest of that conversation off your hands.

On smaller accident repair jobs, it is worth checking the number against your deductible before filing at all. If the repair costs less, paying directly is usually cheaper once you account for what a claim does to your record, and we will tell you when that is the case.

Across North Texas.

Wrecks happen on roads, not in cities, and the roads around here are the reason our collision repair work looks the way it does.

The Dallas North Tollway and US-75 run either side of us, and rush hour on both produces the rear-end work that fills a body shop. SH-121 and the George Bush Turnpike add the merge and lane-change impacts. Preston Road and Legacy Drive deliver the intersection collisions, which tend to be the heavier jobs.

That road network is why our vehicles arrive from where they do. Most are from Plano itself. Richardson and Carrollton come in off the George Bush. Frisco and Allen follow the Tollway and 121 south to us. McKinney and the northern county usually arrive after a carrier's preferred shop quoted a three-week wait.

Our shop is at 1101 Ohio Dr #111 in West Plano, 75093, just off the George Bush Turnpike and Preston Road, with parking at the door.

The difference with collision work is that the vehicle often cannot make the trip. If yours should not be driven, do not drive it. Free pickup covers the metroplex out to Dallas, Garland, Wylie, Prosper, Celina, and The Colony. We take delivery directly from a tow, and we coordinate a rental against your claim so you are not stranded while the repair runs.