I-CAR Gold Class · ASE Certified · Porsche Certified
Austin McLaren owners have been shipping their cars to Dallas or Houston for years. Podium Body Works ends that: McLaren service, dealer-level diagnostics, and body repair, in the Austin area, with McLaren diagnostic software in house and enclosed pickup from Westlake, Bee Cave, the COTA condos, and beyond. Five McLarens were in our care this month.
Yes, here, and owners tell us they’ve hunted for it for years. Until now the honest answer was Dallas or Houston, a transport bill and a week of logistics for an oil service or a fault light. Every McLaren owner we work with says a version of the same sentence: I’ve been looking for this in Austin for a long time. The workload says the rest: five McLarens in the shop at once this month.
Dealer-level diagnostics, coding, and calibration, plus service and body work. We hold McLaren diagnostic software that, as far as our own ring-around of Austin shops could find, nobody else in town carries: when our McLaren tool needed a backup this summer, we called every shop that plausibly had one, and none did. New sensors arrive blank; we code them here.
The one job that still leaves the building is instrument-cluster replacement, a factory security restriction that applies to everyone, and we tell you that upfront rather than let you find out mid-repair.
Yes, enclosed and insured, from your driveway. Westlake, Bee Cave, and the condos at COTA are regular runs, and the greater Austin area is standard range. The car travels the way it should, in a covered trailer with our people loading it, the same equipment that moves Porsches between our shops. You hand over keys and get updates; the logistics are ours.
Yes, and it’s where our materials capability earns its keep: McLaren means carbon fiber and aluminum, and both are in-house disciplines here. Carbon panels, splitters, and bumpers are repairable; structural carbon gets an honest assessment before anyone commits. Paint work respects what these finishes cost. The full picture of our exotic repair capability, marques, materials, and diagnostics, lives on its own page, and the claims process works the same as any high-value repair: documented, genuine parts, insurer handled.
No, and we won’t blur that line. McLaren certification is in pursuit, and it is genuinely hard to get. What we hold today is experience, equipment, and McLaren software, and the owners with cars in our bays decided that mattered more than a plaque. When certification is earned, you’ll read it here first; until then, we’re the Austin option that means your car doesn’t ride a transporter to Dallas.
Yes, at Podium Body Works. Owners have been shipping to Dallas or Houston; ending that is why this page exists.
No, and we say so plainly. Certification is in pursuit. Today we’re experienced and equipped, with McLaren diagnostic software in house.
Dealer-level diagnostics, coding, and calibration, plus service and body work. The rare exception is instrument-cluster replacement, a factory security restriction.
Yes, enclosed and insured, from Westlake, Bee Cave, the COTA condos, and the Austin area.
We quote before touching anything, and the transport line you’re used to paying disappears from the math.
Send a few photos and we will arrange a careful, accurate estimate for your vehicle.
