Calling it a “unique initiative,” Honda on Thursday announced it will ask independent mechanical and collision repair shops to check customers’ models against the years…
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Shops across the country have reported State Farm has begun shifting the labor rates it’ll pay up and down based on the results of a recently completed…
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The 2017 Kia Sportage’s body-in-white is 51 percent advanced-high-strength steel or higher, including particularly strong grades in some of the usual-suspect collision areas. What Kia…
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More than a quarter of the 2016 Honda Civic is ultra-high-strength-steel, a major shift towards the light, strong — but sensitive — metal for one of America’s staple…
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Though at first blush a Wisconsin auto body shop choice bill seemed to pass easily in the General Assembly, it was years in the making…
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Car insurance companies can no longer demand repairs be made at a particular auto body shop under a bill signed last week by Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. “No…
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A Mitchell analysis reveals that insurers and shops should expect more total losses and costlier repairs not in the heart of winter but rather the…
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I-CAR is bumping up prices for both regular and welding courses effective Dec. 14, but technicians and shop owners who sign up now can lock…
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It is shockingly easy to skew or obscure driver-assist sensors on modern cars, based on what we learned from experts at SEMA. Even something as simple different-sized…
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The Safeco and Liberty Mutual direct repair programs have been merged into the Personal Insurance direct repair program and will be overseen by a single team,…
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