BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl discusses tactics collision repairers can use to get their voices heard by lawmakers and get legislation passed that will benefit the collision repair industry from the BodyShop Business Launch Tech USA Collision Studio at Babcox Media.
Episode 9 of The Road to AAPEX explores the connections and relationships with people that help us navigate an ever-winding road.
The automotive aftermarket is about connections. Connections to the right parts, to the right places, to the right people. It’s the roads we travel down together that make us grow closer and bring us together. That’s the feeling that paves the Road to AAPEX as Babcox Media’s Joe Keene, an ASE-certified technician, traverses the Bonneville Salt Flats in his fixed-up Lincoln Blackwood. Flashback to fixes that made the journey possible: new tires and rims to fuel injectors, windows and a new AC unit.
Every time the suspension is changed, you’re changing the ADAS system.
Episode 8 of The Road to AAPEX explores how far automotive innovation has brought us to get to where we are today, and where it might take us tomorrow.
Autel diagnostic tablets connect directly to EV battery modules, accessing all datastream PIDs for precise diagnostics.
In episode 7 of The Road to AAPEX, Joe Keene rolls through Nebraska and meets kindred spirits as he drives the rare Lincoln Blackwood he refurbished for his journey to AAPEX.
New regulation would require repair shops engaged in changing the oil or tires and tubes of a motor vehicle to determine if the motor vehicle being repaired or worked upon is subject to an open recall.
ASA Chairman Scott Benavidez testified that the agreement with automakers ensures independent shops have the data for service and repair in the future.
In episode 6 of The Road to AAPEX, Joe Keene enters Iowa on his drive to AAPEX and discovers the charm of small-town America along the Lincoln Highway.
In episode 5 of The Road to AAPEX, Joe Keene prepares the Lincoln Blackwood for the road with assistance from Transtar and heads out on the Lincoln Highway on his way to AAPEX.
