Tag Archives: Crash repair

New Image Body Repair has opened a new bodyshop on White Lodge Business Park, just off Hall Road in Norwich. This business aims to put more emphasis on repairing commercial vehicles including vans, taxis, campervans, and motorhomes. Rob Gainsborough, the general manager of New Image, saidL “We are thrilled to expand our services with the opening of our second site ...

Steer Automotive Group has opened an electric vehicle repair facility in Milton Keynes. This new EV site, its second, expands the group’s specialist electric vehicle repair capacity to meet growing demand. The 14,000-square-foot centre offers aluminium structural repair capabilities. It is equipped with high voltage technology tooling to manage both current and next-generation electric vehicles. Steer’s team of technicians have ...

Dealers are missing out on car write-off sales opportunities. That’s the view of Accident Exchange, which said nearly 12% of the 40,000 collisions it handled in 12 months resulted in vehicle write offs. Extrapolating these results across the UK, it estimates the number of write-offs topped 257,000 in 12 months, worth an estimated £2bn. But it said despite the numbers involved, ...

The National Association of Bodyshops (NAB) and the Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association Limited (VBRA) have pledged to work closer together to represent the needs of the bodyshop sector. The trade associations said they plan is to promote a “single authoritative voice to take on the ever increasing challenges faced by the bodyshop sector, in the aftermath of the recent ...

The number of crash repair outlets in the UK is set to fall 9% to just over 3,000 outlets by 2020. The latest research from Trend Tracker said this decline coupled with a forecast 2% increase in the number of repairs, will create an 11% shortfall in repair capacity by 2020. By this time, those bodyshops remaining in business should ...

UK drivers cause £716m of damage annually when parking their cars, according to research by Accident Exchange. Car park incidents are second to rear-end shunts as the most common kind of car accident with average repair costs standing at £1,428. The research shows how car parking accidents have risen 4% since 2010 with an estimated 500,000 collisions annually, equating to ...

Nationwide Accident Repair Services saw underlying profits up 86% to £2.5m on turnover up 13.7% to £90m in the half year to 30 June.

Michael Wilmshurst, chief executive of Nationwide, said: “The incorporation of Gladwin’s within our wider network enhances our presence in the East of England, improving our service offering to customers.