Collision Guides

Rental cover is usually capped by days or dollars, and repairs overrun exactly the way the cap does not allow for.

A car can look perfectly straight and be ten millimetres out where it matters.

A repair plan written from the outside of a damaged car is a guess. The teardown replaces it with facts.

Hail damage is counted, not estimated by eye, and the count is what drives everything else.

PDR keeps the factory paint, which is worth more than most people realize.

Painting only the damaged panel is how you get a repair that is invisible in the shop and obvious in daylight.

The code gets you close. Everything after that is why two cars in the same color do not look the same.

Labor hours are not calendar days, and the gap between them is where the frustration lives.

A camera a millimetre out of position aims meters off at the far end of its range.

A car is a total loss when the repair costs more than a percentage of its value, not when it looks beyond saving.