Accidents happen, particularly during the winter months when we’re all visiting friends and relatives, driving in unfamiliar territory with folks who are also distracted, lost, and sometimes even inebriated from a little too much holiday cheer. It’s easy to pull out of an unfamiliar driveway and hit a mailbox you would swear wasn’t there when you pulled in, or get rear-ended by the guy behind you who has a map unfolded on the dashboard as he tries to find his way to his in-law’s. If you run into an accident this holiday season in the Reading, Allentown or Lehigh Valley, PA area, you know we’re the ones to come to.
If you’re on the other side of the continent, though, here are some of our best tips for finding an auto body shop that can help you without ruining your holidays with poor work and shoddy service.
- Mileage Equals Quality. An auto body shop won’t stay in business long if it provides lousy work. Find out how long the auto body shop has been in business before you hand over the keys to your ride. At Vinart Collision Center, we’ve been in business for over fifteen years, and you know we’d never have hit that number if we didn’t provide great service and quality work. Check the shop’s website or ask them outright how long they’ve been in business.
- Variety of Services. Even a regular mechanic can bang out a dent passably, but most good body shops know how to do everything from fix that minor dent to completely restoring your car to getting a fantastic paint job on it once it’s done. If they only provide a few services, chances are they don’t understand how some body work can affect the rest of the car – and that means you’re likely to encounter other problems.
- Mechanical Services. While some really quality body shops don’t do mechanical work at all, they will know a good mechanic that they work with regularly. Others – like us – have a full mechanical staff in-house. If the body shop you’re looking at shrugs their shoulders when you ask how the mechanics have been affected by the damage and says that’s not really their domain, look elsewhere. A good body shop should know that it’s not just how it looks, it’s how it runs too, and they’ll be able to provide the services to get both of those things taken care of.
- Evidence. Look around the body shop you’re considering and get an eyeful of how their staff works. If you see a lot of careless-looking banging, lack of consideration for the car, or anything else that makes you think they’re not treating the cars with care, don’t stick around to be proven wrong. Their customers entrust them with those cars, and if they don’t care enough to make sure their work is precise and the car doesn’t get damaged in some other way through their work, then the end result is not going to be satisfactory.
Of course, if the damage is minor, we’d much sooner see you back at our auto body shop, where you’re always in good hands. When the holidays are over, come let us check out that dent from the mailbox. We’ll have you looking like new in no time.
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