Plano, Texas—Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) features can do much to reduce a driver’s workload, alerting to hazards such as blind spots or adjusting following distances with active cruise control.
Plano, Texas—Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) features can do much to reduce a driver’s workload, alerting to hazards such as blind spots or adjusting following distances with active cruise control. However, to work properly, the systems require due diligence in following OEM repair...
Colorado Springs, Colo.—Eurocars Collision Center doesn’t feel like a collision shop and it wasn’t designed to. Much like the high-end, luxury foreign import vehicles that make up its main clientele base, everything from the waiting area to the tools, equipment and technicians are meant to project...
Garden Grove, Calif.—After years of averaging 5 percent growth, business suddenly took off for Joe Sproha in 2017.
“If you had told me five years ago that we’d see 12 percent growth in one year I wouldn’t have believed it,” said Sproha, who is general manager Morrison Tire & Service in Garden...
San Francisco—The hair might be gone, but the passion is still there.
Hans Art, the owner at Hans Art Automotive has seen the industry change in several dramatic ways since he opened his doors in 1970, but this “old hippy” said many of the most important things are still the same.
By staying on top...
Independence, Mo.—Rich Frost, service director of Cable Dahmer Chevrolet, wanted to sell more alignments through courtesy inspections. He had been interested in service drive inspection equipment for several years, but even though each car could be assessed in just a few minutes, for his shop, he...
Atlanta—The Automotive Service Association (ASA) and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers plan to push for state legislation next year that will call for the use of OEM repair procedures for collision repair claims.
Dan Risley, who resigned from his leadership role at ASA in July but has...
St. Louis—Sometimes the best way to beat the competition is to just buy them out.
As Chris Steger’s shop, Steger Service, has grown, so has the need for expansion. Steger recently acquired a former Midas facility across the street which, for many years, was the source of the shop’s most direct...
Colorado Springs, Colo.—Nobody could argue that the $20,000 Jack Humphrey’s father invested in building a four-bay alignment shop in his backyard in 1971 wasn’t a good idea. The building and the business have become staples in the Colorado Springs community, and Jack’s Alignment Service will enter...
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