Body shops are the more expensive type of repair compared to the mobile car body repair service. They have fixed overheads, large equipment costs and staff costs which are all taken into account when the cost of a job is required. They repair more severe types of damage compared to a smart repair service and can spray larger areas on vehicles such as full body resprays.
Body shops will keep the car for a period of time to repair the damage, on average the repair time for a standard scuff would take up to 2-3 days and they usually return the car when the job has been completed.
Smart repair services have one major advantage over a body shop and that is there flexibility, with this I mean there ability to repair cars at your home or place of work as long as they have access to a power supply. This means that 99% of all jobs can be carried out in a matter of hours instead of days like body shops would. There costs can be up to 70% cheaper than a body shops this is mainly down to their low overheads, for they have very few staff small equipment costs and have no fixed base there for all renting and storage cost are irrelevant.
The only real down side of using a mobile car body repair service is that they are limited on the type of damage they can repair, for example only small to medium area damage can be repair such as bumper scuffs, panel resprays, vandal scratches, bumper scratches, key scratches, small dents, stone chips, seat burns, cracked bumpers, split plastic and alloy wheels.
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