We are looking forward to completing your repairs and getting your vehicle back to you in BETTER than pre accident condition 😁
Before you pick your car up, there is ALOT of work we do to ensure the vehicle is repaired to manufacturer’s & our standard 👍
ASSESSMENT PROCESS 🚘
Damage Capture 🛠️
This process roughly takes 10 - 20 minutes depending on the vehicle damage!
Images have been strategically taken of your vehicle to ensure we encaptulate as much of the repair as possible.
We have accessed manufacturers repair methods & documents to assist in the correct repair opperations.
We have accessed manufacturers parts catalogs to provide us with a greater knowledge on the parts required for the repair on your vehicle.
Quotation Process 💻
Using the collected data, we prepared an estimate for yourself & your insurer.
This estimate process consists of,
R&R process, We detail EVERY part of the removeal and refit procedures on your vehicle. This process over the years has grown and grown with newer model vehicles costantly evolving and invating to include newer technologies (fun fact, a VR commodore front bumper bar consisted of 4 parts! A 2022 Kia Sportage has 51 parts JUST in the front bumper!).
Repair process, everything that isnt replaced from the accident requires repair. Our Qualified & very skilled tradesman use the OEM procedures and their VAST knowledge and training to ensure a quality repair process. We idividually itimise everything the workshop needs to repair on your vehicle including listing all the tools and equipment applicable to the repairs.
Prime & Paint process, Any new &/or repaired part now goes into refinishing. Preparation for refinishing is an intricate opperation that our Qualified & very skilled technicians take GREAT pride in. Again we list everything from new parts & repaired parts that require refinishing.
Parts List, We carry out a complex breakdown of all the parts we estimate will be required for your vehicle. We then send this to a variety of parts suppliers, from the manufacturers suppliers for Genuine parts to secondhand parts suppliers. Using secondhand suppliers ensure that if manufacturers cannot supply parts i.e they’re on backorder
Sublets, We employ Qualified Technicians to cover Crash Repairs, Mechancial & Detailing. There are a vast amount of different trades and skills that the automotive trade has to keep everyones cars on the road, we often need to organise these trades to come and assist repairs i.e Autoglass, Auto Electrical, Trimming, Signwriting & Many more! We have great suppliers that we arrange their expertise at time of quote.
Assessment / Approval 📋
Once our quotation was complete, we sent this off for approveal from either yourself or the insurer.
If insurance, we have liased with the insurance company representative in relation to your repair estimate and agreed to carry out repairs 👍
Book Repairs & Arrange Parts, Sublets & Materials 📲
We arrange with manufacturers parts suppliers and our materials suppliers to have everything purchased and here & our sublets booked in before your car arrives! This ensures a streamlined process that eliminates you having to wait longer than necessary before getting your car back! HOWEVER, please note that sometimes parts can be backordered & the supply date we have been given may even be scheduled to us whilst the car is in for repair, not requiring us to alarm you of this.
These dates can sometimes be moved if the backordered part doesn’t, in which case we will inform you then 👍