Subaru last month announced a next-generation 2022 BRZ it called the “(l)ightest rear-wheel drive 2+2 production sports car in U.S. market.” The OEM in a Nov. 18 news release said it cut weight by building [...]
Allstate said Tuesday its existing direct repair program background check policies remained in place, and the insurer still wouldn’t be scrutinizing credit or drug testing results. A Good Hands shop had taken exception to a [...]
Lawmakers have reached an agreement on a COVID-19 relief measure which offers body shops and other small businesses another round of Paycheck Protection Program funding and makes it easier for some to have those loans [...]
The Oklahoma Supreme Court and Florida 3rd District Court of Appeals this month struck blows in favor of consumers and service providers relying upon the concept of assignment of benefits. First, the Oklahoma Supreme Court on [...]
An Allstate Good Hands collision shop has taken exception to a new DRP background check authorization request they say would expand the insurer’s ability to research personal information. “Accordingly, l hereby authorize all of the [...]
Even touch-up work might carry OEM procedures on top of the instructions from the relevant supply manufacturers. We found a couple of examples during a Friday visit to the Ford official OEM repair procedure website. [...]
A quality control process is a no-brainer for the kind of safety-critical work collision repairers perform on a daily basis. It also provides a means of catching aesthetic errors before one’s customer does. A variety [...]
Vayyar on Tuesday said its production-ready “radar-on-chip” could save OEMs and suppliers “hundreds of millions of dollars each year” by taking over jobs normally spread across multiple sensors. Such consolidation might prove convenient for collision [...]
Electric vehicles average four more more diagnostic trouble codes per scan than traditional internal combustion engine models, a Mitchell review of 2.2 million vehicle scans this year revealed. Mitchell performance consulting director Ryan Mandell, who [...]
Nissan last week released a position statement reinforcing what it, collision trade groups and OEMs have been saying for a while: Auto body shops need to read and follow OEM repair procedures. “It is recommended [...]
