Author: Search Auto Parts | Automotive News – Collision Repair

Your estimating platform and your approach to sales processes and repair planning are the most important tools in your estimating arsenal.

Your training costs for the last three years should reach 2 percent of your total sales.

Too often during the process of getting to understand a business I find that the shop owner is using less than 20 percent of the tools and information that the shop’s management system can provide.

Every shop owner should know these 13 stats and trends to make sure their business is keeping up, and to decide what changes to make to take advantage of where the industry and the economy are heading.

A long material list detracts from a profitable bottom line because as the list grows so does the potential for waste.

This article, part two of a two-part series on electrical bug hunting, explains troubleshooting a control relay and a blower motor.

Make sure you take pictures of the vehicle before tearing it down. Take them from all four corners of the damaged area, and of the dash and gauges with the key on.

For an unprecedented 9th time, NAPA has recognized NAPA Filters as its top supplier and awarded the filter company the Spirit of NAPA award for 2011. NAPA Filters, manufactured by Affinia Global Filtration, is the only nine-time winner of this …

If you haven’t done it lately, type your shop’s name into Google and hit the "Maps" tab.

An amendment to Florida House Bill 885, which has been in the state House, would eliminate the current 80 percent threshold for a total-loss vehicle to receive a certificate of destruction and allow potentially unsafe vehicles to be branded as …