When in Akron, Brother’s Auto Collision and Frame Repair should be on your go-to list when your car is in need of anything from dent repair to major collision damage repair. In addition to that, we provide custom paint jobs and car restoration services.
No matter how much we love doing what we do, most of us never would want to see the inside of an auto body repair shop. At the most, we can often smell the solvents being emitted by automotive body vehicle repair shops as we drive by and wonder how those people can make it through a work day never being precise and accurate in both matching the color of car panels and repairing auto, truck and S.U.V bodies after vehicle collisions.
It is only by car accidents that most of us end up inside the premises of our local Akron auto body repair shop, dealer, or chain auto body shop.
Most shops now bear little relation to the establishments you may remember as a child – dark and dusty surrounded by both piles of used and new car parts as well as a mean guard dog in the yard. There may be a few of those still around but they are a dying breed. Repairing cars now, especially with the electronics in today’s vehicles, requires both skill, education, and training, sophisticated tools, and an ultra-clean, modern shop.
Modern body shops in Akron, like Brother’s Auto Collision and Frame Repair, now seem to be uniformly clean, well laid out, and well-lit. Many body shops are also laid out in several distinct separate staging areas. Vehicles are estimated in one area, body work done in another, electronic repairs in yet another area, painted in a very separate area, and finally detailed and presented to the customer in a display area.
If the vehicle has major damage, then it is moved to a disassembly area and onto a frame machine. Unibody construction is utilized by most autos today. Unibody is an automotive and mechanical body term that describes how sheet metal is stamped, formed, and welded together to form the structural portion of the car or truck body.
The purpose of the “frame machine” is not to straighten the car frame now – rather it is to straighten the unibody construction of the vehicle.
Measuring the vehicle body for correct unibody alignment is more than critical. As little as one-millimeter error is all that is allowed by most car, truck, and S.U.V. manufacturers. Laser measuring systems are used by many body shops along with the frame machine to ensure that everything is straightened accurately to the decimal point.
Hopefully, you’ll never have the need to step into an Akron auto body repair shop. But, if circumstances force the issue, we want you to call us first at (330) 434-6829. Advice and estimates are always free!
