How to Pick a Good Body Repair Shop, Advice From A Previous Body Repair Techinician

These are tips on how to pick out a body shop for your vehicle.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Get referrals from family, friends and co-workers.
2. Visit the shop and inspect if they have the proper equipment such as paint booths, frame machine, paint mixer etc.
3. Get information from the body shop before any work is to be done.
   
   Questions to ask the manager:
   a)If they accept insurance clams.
   b)Are the workers getting paid by hour or by job
   c)whats the estimate of the cost?
4. After you gather all your information around the area compare between each other to see whats are the best deals are.

Tips & Warnings

• - Reason that you want to check if the shop is proper equip is that small at home jobs may provide cheap solutions but then do a cheap fix job at most times. - getting paid by hour helps insures you that the men that working on your vehicle are taking their time than rushing it for the next job for a cheap finished product. - If your insurance is ok about the shop, they will help issue you a rental car if your policy allows you to, they may also pick you up at the job location - If the job is a insurance claim then don't worry about the rates and estimates - Some shops will provide free deductible - For small jobs, if the shop have their own paint mixer machine, this will tell you that they can color match paint.