Post Collision Repair Inspections A Panel Discussion

No doubt about it. If you've been in the collision repair business for any time, you've encountered a post repair inspection.

Normally it's the result of a secondary impact and the car presenting with overlapping damage in areas of prior poor repairs. Regardless, we've all stood next to a car puzzled at how a technician or shop owner good have 1.) done that to a car and 2.) let it go out the door.

However, today there is an increasing number of consumers requesting post collision repair inspections before a secondary loss. The results were seeing are increasingly alarming. The poor repairs, missed and unperformed repairs are becoming more frequent finds. The most troubling aspect is these are not repairs performed at what we would consider back wood shops. These are I-CAR Gold Class and OEM Certified facilities.

We gathered a panel of industry stakeholders that are actively involved in post repair inspections for consumers and court mediation.