Mitchell: Toyota integration not substitute for researching OEM procedures
— March 26, 2019Mitchell confirmed Sunday that its integration of Toyota repair procedures into the estimating process
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VW Arteon’s ability to protect unresponsive driver creates repair responsibility
— March 25, 2019Volkswagen Canada collision program manager Scott Wideman said this month the 2019 Volkswagen Arteon
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Win a year of Toyota TIS; guides for clear coat, glass: 5 more DEG tips
— March 22, 2019The Database Enhancement Gateway, which allows repairers and insurers to make inquiries and suggestions
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Hear auto materials trends in SCRS video of DuckerFrontier IDEAS Collide talk
— March 21, 2019Industry professionals who missed SCRS’ new IDEAS Collide forum at SEMA will be able to check out
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GM adds video to repair procedures; Ford has Ranger, Expedition overviews
— March 20, 2019Auto body shops have another incentive besides necessity to use General Motors’ paid OEM repair
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CCC: Less than 1% of 2018 auto body repair appraisals contained a test weld
— March 19, 2019CCC’s 2018 estimate databases revealed fewer than 1 percent of all repairable vehicle appraisals
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VW: Mixed-steel design requires considering heat, anchoring
— March 19, 2019Volkswagen’s use of “dissimilar materials” — steels of different tensile strengths
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CCC: Calibrations found on 1% of vehicles; wide range of charges seen
— March 18, 2019Just “slightly less than 1 percent” of all vehicles tracked in CCC between November 2017
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CCC: Percentage of estimates with scans closes on 40%; average diagnostic cost falls
— March 18, 2019Nearly 40 percent of CCC repairable estimates in the fourth quarter of 2018 contained a manual entry
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VW: No position statement on scanning because it’s in repair procedures already
— March 14, 2019Volkswagen has not released a position statement on scanning for the “fundamental reason”
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