Matthew and Marcia Seebachan are a Texas couple who, in the fall of 2017, were awarded $42 million by a jury in a lawsuit against a Dallas-area dealership body shop over auto accident injuries they said were exacerbated by faulty prior collision repairs made to their vehicle.
For more than 30 years, collision repair technicians have experimented with glue pulling repair (GPR) techniques to fix vehicles.
The Collision Industry Conference (CIC) Data Access, Privacy and Security Committee in April continued its ongoing discussion related to auto body shop estimates resulting in entries on vehicle history reports.
Heidi Foster has been fighting battles her entire life.
With the pandemic halting mobility over the last two years and accidents falling sharply, the collision repair industry has been impacted worldwide.
Research into the accuracy of the blend time formula commonly used in the industry is among the projects the Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) has on its docket, the association reported at an open board meeting held in April in Oklahoma City.
“I have all these great ideas, but I can’t get my people at the shop to help implement them.”
What happens when your body starts to fail you, but your mind is as sharp as ever? Do you quit or do you re-invent yourself?
In the world of collision repair, there are a ton of multi-talented people doing other things when they’re not repairing vehicles.
An auto body shop manager told me he has a recurring nightmare where he is standing in his shop and watching money fly out the door. He keeps reaching out to grab the cash, but it keeps slipping through his fingers.
Rick Spears, owner of Malibu Collision in Knoxville, TN, has always been interested in new technologies. As a result, he strived to incorporate state-of-the-art equipment and automotive materials in his collision repair facilities over the years.
Trainer and consultant Mike Anderson’s idea wasn’t new, but his implementation of it has had some significant impact for the industry.
The Database Enhancement Gateway (DEG) is a website, initially created by three national trade associations---the Alliance of Automotive Service Providers (AASP), the Automotive Service Association (ASA) and the Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS)---that enables anyone to submit inquiries about labor times or operations in any of three estimating systems, and to see the information providers' responses to these inquiries.
If you own an independent auto body shop, you have likely been approached by a large MSO about possibly selling your business.