Body & paint
Collision work, panel replacement, bumper repair and full refinishing — matched to your factory code and blended so the repair disappears into the rest of the vehicle.
The work
Most body damage falls into one of three buckets. Panels that can be pulled and reshaped, panels that are cheaper to replace than to fix, and plastic that needs to be welded or bonded back together. The decision isn't always obvious, and it's where a shop either saves you money or quietly bills you for the easy option.
A bumper cover with a tear and some road rash is usually plastic repair — cheaper than a new cover, and on a ten-year-old truck it's the sensible call. A quarter panel with a hard crease and stretched metal might be better replaced, because forcing it back will leave work that shows in the right light. A tailgate that's dented but straight is often a PDR job and never needs to enter the paint booth at all. We quote you the options and what each one actually costs, then you choose.
Everything that gets refinished is prepped properly: stripped to a sound substrate, epoxy or etch primed on bare metal, blocked flat, sealed. The finish is only as good as what's under it, and shortcuts at this stage are why cheap paint jobs peel in three winters.
Color
Your paint code is a starting point, not an answer. Three things move the target:
The same code is mixed differently at different assembly plants and across model years. Most manufacturers publish multiple variant formulas for a single code. Picking the right one means spraying test cards and comparing them on the vehicle, in daylight.
At 9,000 feet, UV is roughly 25 percent more intense than at sea level. A six-year-old red or black has shifted measurably from the day it left the factory. Matching to the code instead of to the car gives you a panel that looks brand new next to five that don't.
Flake orientation changes with spray pattern, gun distance and air pressure. Two painters using identical paint can produce visibly different panels. This is the whole reason for blending into adjacent panels rather than painting to a hard edge at the door gap.
Insurance
Your insurer can recommend a shop. They cannot require one. Direct repair programs exist because the insurer negotiated rates with that shop, which is a fine arrangement for the insurer and a neutral one for you.
Sometimes a claim is obviously right: a large loss, another party at fault, hail. Sometimes it isn't — a $1,400 repair against a $1,000 deductible on a policy you'd rather not touch is a bad trade. We write the estimate either way and tell you plainly which one we'd do if it were ours. If we go the claim route, we handle supplements when the teardown finds damage the first estimate couldn't see, which on collision work is most of the time.
Questions
A bumper scuff can be a couple of days. A panel replacement with paint and blend is usually three to five. Anything structural, or anything waiting on a back-ordered part, runs longer — and parts availability is the single biggest source of delay in this industry right now. We give you a date and tell you as soon as anything changes it.
Whichever produces an invisible repair for the least money. Small damage in the middle of a large flat panel can often be spot repaired and blended. Damage near an edge or on a metallic color usually means the full panel plus a blend into the panels on either side.
Yes — against peeling, cracking and delamination on work we did. What no shop can warranty is a rock chip, a shopping cart, or someone else's door.
That's the normal case, not the exception. We match to the vehicle as it sits, not to the code as it was in 2016, and blend into the neighboring panels so there's no line.
Yes, though it's a bigger job than people expect if you want it done right — jambs, under the hood, inside the tailgate. We'll walk you through what's included at each level so there are no surprises when you open a door.
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Serving Silverthorne, Frisco, Dillon, Breckenridge, Keystone and the rest of Summit County.