BMW: Look up OEM procedures fresh on every repair
— March 16, 2021BMW on Thursday advised shops to look up OEM repair procedures fresh on every individual vehicle rather than referencing a document from a prior repair….
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Correction: Honda switches up auto body certification program partners
— March 16, 2021Honda last week announced it would this spring shift its certified collision program management system to CCC and use DEKRA for auditing auto body shops….
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LNC-Kaizen, CenterOak-CollisionRight show new private equity continues to enter auto body space
— March 15, 2021LNC Partners announced last month it had added the 10-shop Southern California and Arizona repairer Kaizen Collision Center to its portfolio. The private equity firm’s…
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Allstate auto profit up $1.72B in 2020, reports frequency falls 29.1%
— March 15, 2021Allstate last month reported its auto underwriting profit more than doubled last year to more than $3.4 billion, despite having to absorb higher severity and…
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CEO talks strategies at new MSOs, other auto body shops as industry sees boom of PE-backed chains
— March 15, 2021A new burst of collision repair industry consolidation has arisen as private equity firms continue to pick up smaller operators and seek to grow them…
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Jeep: 2022 Wagoneer, Grand Wagoneer return with steel, aluminum, composite
— March 12, 2021Jeep on Thursday announced the return of the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer, describing body-on-frame vehicles with a mix of materials including steel, aluminum and composites….
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BMW: Pre-, post-repair scan everything with an OBD-II
— March 11, 2021BMW North America collision program manager Jonathan Inzano concurred Thursday that the OEM wants auto body shops to scan vehicles before and after a collision…
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GM: Next-gen T1 SUVs offer repairs similar to T1 Silverado, Sierra trucks
— March 11, 2021General Motors’ T1 SUVs are very similar from a collision repair perspective to the T1 light-duty trucks introduced a few years ago, the OEM observed…
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Farmers adding crash detection to Signal telematics insurance app
— March 10, 2021Farmers on Wednesday announced it would by mid-March have upgraded its discount-providing telematics app Signal to carry a “CrashAssist” feature. Upon detecting a possible crash…
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Texas Dept. of Insurance: Carriers aren’t required to have appraisal clauses
— March 10, 2021The Texas Department of Insurance on Monday confirmed that auto insurers aren’t required to offer Texans an appraisal clause option to resolve a dispute over…
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