Finesse, Not Force: Repairing Unibody Vehicles
When it comes to today’s unibody vehicles, it takes more mental energy and less brute force to get things straight.
Measuring For Dollars: Tips & Procedures
By following a few simple measuring tips and procedures, you can reduce re-dos, improve productivity and increase your bottom line.
A Meaty Design: Layout to Increase Profits
Give your shop’s layout more bite! Though you’re not making hamburgers, you can McDonaldize your shop’s design and procedures to increase profits.
The Science of Paint
Funky flakes and effect pigments aren’t new, but it wasn’t until OEMs determined they were lucrative that they showed up on production vehicles. Now we’ve got rainbow, holograph and even glass-chip effects.
How to Fix Rust on Cars, Trucks
As you read this, a vehicle somewhere is rusting. And although rust repair isn’t for everyone, a shop owner somewhere is profiting from it. Could that shop owner be you?
Change Waits For No One
In the rapidly changing world of collision repair, something that was revolutionary yesterday may be obsolete tomorrow — including your business.
Streamlining the Industry
Collision repair has been a fragmented and inefficient industry for years — but consolidators are hoping to change all that.
Deep in the Heart of Texas: The NACE Convention
Round ’em up and move ’em out! NACE is headed for Dallas!
Understanding Undercoats
Undercoats create the foundation for quality refinish work. In many ways, they recreate the OEM treatment process.
Insurers: Cowboys At Heart?
Some insurers are rounding up consumers and steering them out of shops like herds of cattle – leaving many shop owners to ask: “Where’s the beef?”
