A new product announced last month draws attention to a potentially overlooked aspect of the collision repair business: test drive oversight and documentation. Collision Hub, SCRS and a CIC committee last year highlighted the need [...]
The Collision Industry Foundation announced Monday the industry’s generosity helped the organization reach a fundraising target of $10,000 for a Texas auto body repair family impacted by tragedy. ColorMaster Auto Body Shop owner Gilbert Anchondo [...]
“We’ve disrespected the car significantly for the past 10 years,” a collision industry expert told a CIECAst last month, describing the disrespect as occurring during auto claims and auto body repair. “We are not giving [...]
A recent Harris County, Texas, small-claims court ruling upheld a body shop’s discovery into State Farm prevailing rate calculations and other estimating practices. Harris County 8-1 Justice of the Peace Holly Williamson’s ruling Feb. 6 [...]
Hyundai earlier this month announced a 2020 Sonata Hybrid which might be sporting a solar roof when it rolls into your shop. It’s one of a few body areas on the hybrid carrying functionality beyond [...]
AutoNation said Thursday it eventually would use the SiriusXM Automatic connected car service to recommend its own collision centers when the technology detects a crash. “Plan is to roll out later on as AutoNation Collision [...]
The Iowa Collision Repair Association said the Midwest Auto Body Trade Show will return later this month with more than 50 vendors and classes from I-CAR and others. I-CAR will teach its aluminum 2015 Ford F-150 [...]
Two leading auto body repair trade groups recently announced the 2020 NORTHEAST show’s Collision P.R.E.P. educational lineup, with special standalone time slots dedicated to Ford repair, leveraging owner’s manuals and certified collision repair. Collision P.R.E.P., [...]
This decade will see the most “rapid and radical change that our industry has ever known,” collision repair industry expert Sean Carey predicted last month, while offering near-term forecasts on topics like insurtech, OEM procedures [...]
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists on Wednesday announced two webinars on its multiple employer 401(k) plan, each targeting a separate type of auto body shop. The first webinar is aimed at collision repair companies [...]
