Auto Body Equipment: Price Isn’t Everything
Price shouldn’t be the only factor in your buying decision when it comes to equipment.
Scanning & Recalibration: Market Rates
When it comes to the pricing of scanning and recalibration, we need to make sure we’re all talking the same language.
Vehicle Test Drives: More Than You Think
The days of driving a vehicle around the block to check for problems are over. With today’s sophisticated technology, test drives have become so much more.
Plastic Repairs: Are We Throwing Away Opportunity?
Plastic has become such a large percentage of a vehicle’s makeup that repairing it has become a mainstay in the collision repair industry. But training is the key.
Electronic Blueprinting: Necessary for Today’s Vehicles
How many times are you missing scanning, reprogramming or recalibration procedures?
Vehicle Scanning and Recalibration Shockers
In my travels, I hear many shocking statements from collision repairers across the country that prove we have a long way to go when it comes to education on scanning and recalibration.
Are Your Welds Dressed for Success?
Although dressing welds may not be rocket science, the process does require an understanding of welding and the metals being welded.
OE Certification: We All Benefit
Whether it’s your customer, policyholder or vehicle consumer, customer satisfaction is the key to success in the collision repair industry. The OE certification process is an important part of achieving this.
Scanning and Recalibration: Big Picture Thinking
The systems and features in today’s vehicles are the complex part. It’s hard for any of us to fathom how some of the electronics work. Now, we have to factor them into the repair process.
How Today’s Welders Could Be Making a Difference in Your Shop
The welders we have available today are much more capable than the ones we had just five years ago and are changing repair processes in shops.
Vehicle Electronics: Time to Get Serious
Do you have processes and procedures for dealing with ADAS yet? It’s time for all of us to get serious about doing it right.
Proper Welders for Corrosion Protection
A major problem facing all shops today is the corrosion protection of a vehicle, particularly the corrosion arising from welding and in seams of panels welded together during the repair.
