• Insurers drive double-digit CAPS growth

    • 29 March 2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Categories: Featured, News
    Data from 2021 shows a 23% increase in the use of CAPS as a number of top UK motor insurance companies now use the platform to communicate with their motor repair supply chain Insurers such as Ageas, Direct Line, Esure, LV= and Sabre are now among those using CAPS to exchange data directly to the software platforms [...]
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  • The hidden costs of car safety

    • 26 February 2018
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Innovative Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) fitted into the latest vehicles are important safety aids, but they are adding significantly to the cost of car repair bills, according to industry expert, What Car According to the Association of British Insurers (ABI), the average cost of a car repair bill has [...]
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  • Sytner Tamworth ready bodyshop

    • 27 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Sytner BMW and MINI will open the doors to its new dual-branded Stage One bodyshop in Tamworth next month (November 2015), complete with a pristine, state-of-the-art workshop designed and equipped by Spraybooth Technology Limited (STL) Central to the bodyshop are three latest-generation spraybooths designed, [...]
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  • Vandals damage £1million worth of cars

    • 8 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    CCTV Footage has emerged of two hooded vandals causing damage to vehicles that have a value of over £1 million at a bodyshop in Kent The vandalism took place at Automotive Repair Systems, a SMART repair centre in Orpington, Kent Security footage shows the culprits keying three of the cars, however the vandals went [...]
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  • bodyshop Event and Awards 2015

    • 24 September 2015
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Categories:
    The Roaring ‘20s is the theme for 2015, giving delegates a chance to suit up and enjoy the company of their peers in an atmosphere of refined class and uncontainable enjoyment The daytime Event, featuring interactive stands from exhibitors covering all aspects of the market, will once again be free for [...]
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  • Blaze rips through Central Sports Cars

    • 18 September 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A number of luxury supercars worth hundreds of thousands of pounds have been destroyed after a fire tore through a car bodyshop Eight fire crews tackled the severe blaze which took hold of Central Sports Cars in Stourbridge, West Mids, at around 430pm on Thursday More than 30 firefighters had to withdraw from [...]
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  • Skill Auto finalists announced

    • 28 July 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    IMI Skill Auto competitors are heading to Birmingham NEC on the 19-21 November for the final of the competition Eighteen finalists will compete for gold at the UK Skills Show in Auto Refinishing, Auto Tech or Auto Body Around 100,000 people are expected to visit the UK’s largest careers event, which provides a [...]
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  • Arsonists cause £500k damage to bodyshop

    • 21 July 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Arsonists have caused an estimated half a million pounds worth of damage, after setting light to cars at a bodyshop in Heywood Firefighters were called to the scene at the insurance repair centre in Heywood Distribution Park at around midnight, after an internal system from a BMW car alerted staff that it was on [...]
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  • AW Repair Group pass Volkswagen Audit

    • 6 July 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    AW Repair Group is pleased to announce they are still among the elite 33 bodyshops across the country to hold Volkswagen full structural aluminium approval The group’s prestige repair centre in Sleaford, Lincolnshire has passed their full Volkswagen audit with no minors The audit took just over 3 hours, and was [...]
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  • Developing talent for tomorrow – Training

    • 1 July 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Magazine
    There is currently a big focus within the bodyshop sector on the training of apprentices and upskilling existing personnel Here, bodyshop's Padraig Mallett takes a closer look at the training that currently exists and what is being done to overcome an emerging skills gap within the sector Two-time winner of [...]
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