Automotive painter and auto body technician (and writer and TV host) Kevin Tetz offers his top 10 lessons gleaned from decades of working in the field. When it comes to working on a project car, ...

Begin by using your 4-inch grinder and remove all paint, primer, and filler around the hole that you want to fill. See All 11 Photos11 Here are two methods for creating the plug to fill the hole.

Finding the cheapest auto body repair can backfire. Make sure to pick the right type of repair shop, read reviews, gather estimates and ask the right questions. Many, or all, of the products featured ...

Ford is launching a collision repair program that will subsidize body repairs on the new 2015 F-150. Ford’s 2015 half ton uses aluminium body panels which can be costly to repair when dented, which is ...

Stiffness is a fundamental concern for the perceived quality of a body panel. Along with oil canning (the ‘popping’ of a panel when pressed) it determines bow the panel ‘feels’ to a customer. Dent ...

Automakers and their suppliers have been painting glass fiber-reinforced composite exterior body panels, including those made from sheet molding compound (SMC), for many years. SMC painting, in ...

A sound that a Corvette owner never wants to hear is a siren wailing from behind. Another is the sickening sound of crunching fiberglass. And the latter is likely to be even more painful than the ...

A car without Bondo will always be better than a car with it, but that doesn’t necessarily make the popular automotive body filler bad. In certain contexts, it can be quite the contrary. The name is ...

LEWISVILLE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Caliber family of automotive repair and service brands, including Caliber Collision and Caliber Auto Glass, today announced its acquisition of Car Body Lab, a ...