Mobile Car Body Repairs in The Rain

One thing that as a mobile car body repair technician I hate the most is the rain, whether its light or heavy rain is the Bain of our lives. Most jobs involve internal work within a nice warm and cosy office but other jobs like ours don’t. We are outside most hours of the day most days of the week so when it rains the want for us to work in it is very low. But being it’s my own business needs must as the devil drives.

We recently purchased a large portable shelter that helps us which is a great help in heavy rain. In the past before we had the shelter we used a large piece of tarpaulin that we strapped over the damaged area, it wasn’t perfect but it did ok, but now we have the new shelter life is more bearable in these adverse weather conditions, we also don’t go home drenched like a wet flannel.

With the use of our new shelter we can continue as normal in bad weather conditions which is great for us and you also. So if you require a mobile car body repair and are putting it off because of the weather, don’t for it still can be repaired.

Come rain or shine

Protect Your Car From Stone Chips

Stone chips are an irritant and virtually imposable to protect yourself against. They are generally caused when the car in front’s tyres flicks up road debris (usually small stones) from the roads surface and throws them at the car directly behind it. Don’t worry you can reduce the likelihood of your car having any stone chips by following these few simple tips

1. Try and not drive so close to the car in front of you, give yourself a good 50metres distance so if any stones or debris are thrown in your direction the distance will allow the projectile to reduce in speed and lessen the impact.

2. Avoid Motorways. It’s sometimes not always the car in front of you that is responsible for the stone chip but can also be cars on either side speeding past. If you avoid the motorways then you are reducing the chance of a stone chip from other sources than the car in front.

3. Obvious it may seem but reduce your speed. Reducing your speed may mean that it adds an additional 5 minutes or so on your journey but can reduce the chance of stone chip damage.

4. Use stone chip protectors. These are plastic sheets that can be fitted to the front of the vehicle and gives the bonnet and front wings that added layer of protection. They can be unsightly so be sure its something you need for they can be a pain in the back side to remove otherwise.

By following the tips laid out above you should dramatically reduce the chance of a stone chip occurrence.

Chip on Door

How Mobile Car Body Repairs can Save You Money

If you have ever had any form of a collision with another car or static object you know how expensive a body shop repair can be, especially in today’s climate cost can be king. No one wants to spend more on a repair then they have to so what can you do to reduce the cost of a repair?

The answer is to use a mobile car body repair service; they have very low operating costs and can be up to 70% cheaper than body shops on most repairs. And an added bonus in that they can come to you to carry out the repair at your home or place of work. Most repairs can be completed from start to a water tight finish within 2 hours.

The only downside to a mobile car body repair service is that they are limited on the types of repairs they can carry out, for example if a car body panel needs to be replaced or multiple panels need full re-sprays then this would be considered much to severe for a smart repair service to repair, for they mainly carry out localised repairs on smaller sections of cars where the paint can be blended in or lost around corners.

Types of damage that can be fixed:

Bumper scratch repairs
Key scratch repairs
Seat burn repairs
Alloy wheel repairs
Light rust repairs

Where 80% of car accidents are considered to be minor the use of a mobile car body repair service can be essential in saving you both time and money in carrying out those repairs.

My First Blog

Just set up my first blog for my business Scuff n Chips, and will be posting on regular occiasions showing current car body repair photos and business updates.

We are a mobile car body repair service based in Hertfordshire and  cover Essex and North London. We can repair most types of minor collision damage such as bumper scuffs, bumper scratches, key scratches and seat burn repairs.

We have been running the business for the past 10 years and have been going from strength to strength and now cover  a larger area for our services than we ever did 10 years back.

Its been a tricky last 3 years with the onset of the economic down turn, but where some areas of our business have slowed down other areas have picked up the slack and prospered. The out look for Mobile Car body repairs and our business is good with new trade and privite customers being recieved constantly.

Hope you enjoy our blog.