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Drivers seek home-help to cut repair costs
- 16/06/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
Almost 80% of motorists have turned to family member for automotive advice in the past 12 months in order to save money, with 22% of these doing so on at least two occasions, and almost 15% doing so three times. With the UK aftermarket industry worth £50bn, motorists are looking closer to home to try and slim down [...] -
IAM RoadSmart launches new safety campaign
- 16/06/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
Road safety charity IAM RoadSmart is launching a campaign in alliance with organisations across the industry to make the roads safer for motorcyclists and ensure they are consistently recognised as vulnerable road users. It is calling for a greater recognition of the benefits of motorcycles as a key step towards [...] -
National Paint Championships winner crowned at Automechanika Birmingham
- 07/06/2023
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Categories: Featured, News
The winner of the Bodyshop Magazine-supported National Paint Championships was crowned after a closely fought final today (6 June) at Automechanika Birmingham 2023, which is taking place this week at the NEC. Seven UK paint technicians reached the final round out of 20 entrants, and battled for bragging rights and [...] -
Solera Audatex unveils AEG update
- 02/06/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
Solera Audatex has announced its latest UK data release for AudaEnterpriseGold. It has added 127 new and updated model sheets, covering a range of cars, commercial vehicles and motorbikes such as the Mercedes EQE and the BMW iX3. Labour times, part numbers and paint and material costs are readily available for [...] -
Thatcham Research ramps up repair focus
- 01/06/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
Thatcham Research is shining a light on the growing need to repair rather than replace damaged vehicle headlamp units and has written a best practice guide to highlight repair options and encourage a more sustainable approach. In some cases, the cost of a replacement can amount to 8% of the total vehicle value when [...] -
IMI warns of growing ADAS skills gap
- 31/05/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has issued a stark warning that a lack of ADAS skills is putting road users at risk and undermining UK mobility. Its report, Meeting the Demand for Skilled Vehicle Technicians in the Age of ADAS, examines the scale of Level 2 autonomy in the UK car parc and the skills [...] -
Earn VIP status at Bodyshop Magazine Summer Launch Party
- 18/05/2023
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Categories: Featured, News
Join your collision repair colleagues on Monday, 5 June and earn VIP status at the hottest networking event for the collision repair industry this summer – the Bodyshop Magazine Summer Launch Party 2023. Among those already signed up for Bodyshop's after-work function - which will be the official launch party [...] -
Axalta launches world’s fastest fully automated paint mixing machine
- 12/05/2023
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Categories: Featured, News
Axalta has launched Axalta Irus Mix, it's new state-of-the-art digital paint mixing machine which promises to save bodyshops time, reduce their paint consumption and waste, deliver highly accurate colour, and optimise the work of paint technicians. Troy Weaver, the company's senior vice-president of global [...] -
Morelli secures Kecotabs contract
- 11/05/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
Kecotabs has appointed Morelli Group as the UK distributor for its glue pull collison repair systems and associated products. Keco offers a huge variety of tools as one of the largest Paintless Dent Removal (PDR) tool manufacturers in the world, while all Morelli PDR courses are trained using Keco PDR tools and the [...] -
1.3 million MOT failures on the road
- 10/05/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Categories: Featured, News
One-in-10 cars that passed their MOT last year should have failed, according to an investigation by What Car?. This equates to nearly 1.3 million cars on the road now with potentially dangerous defects. As part of the 2021-2022 MOT Compliance Survey, a team of DVSA expert vehicle examiners retested 1,732 [...]