Body Shops

Tip 3. Easy way to increase bodyshop revenue. Offer pre-sale car repair services. Everyday people around us decide to sell their car, and statistics says that for every Euro (Dollar, Pound, Ruble etc) spent on minor car repair, one will get 3 Euro (Dollar, Pound, Ruble etc) more in sales price! Good-looking, shiny, clean vehicle […]

Improving Shop Layouts – FenderBender – January 2012 – United States.

                                                                   In my not so long career in car refinishing trade I have heard these words very often. What changes is the number of years in business. It is usually 20 years at least, even if the guy in front of you is in his early 30s. Whether you speak to a car sprayer or

Most probably, you have already faced this problem at some point of your career. A painter may feel frustrated why the paint looks a bit lighter, and the flakes appear flatter. Even if you spray an adjacent fender or a quarter panel in exactly the same way, the difference will still be there. Auto body

A few weeks ago I made a fast – one day trip to Serbia, specifically to visit Serbian automobile capital, Kragujevac city, which was truly fascinating. Transformation from old Zastava factory, which used to produce old Yugos, to a modern Fiat plant, made me really think that anything is possible. Just in 1999, NATO was

By Alexandros Aslamazis Some of you may be even surprised that such a question is posed anyway. However, my eyes have seen a good deal of car sprayers using whatever solvent they find available in their body shop to treat the surface prior coating. This is why it makes no harm to repeat certain refinishing

Despite the fact that in modern vehicles, new plastics and composite materials, are more and more used, steel and aluminum remain the basic materials for car body construction, 1st and 3rd place accordingly (2nd by volume material used in cars is plastic).On average, one passenger vehicle contains about 1000kg of steel, and aluminum represents up