THE SHOP

Collision Craft Inc. is a modern facility. (map to location)

We are fully equipped to handle any collision up to a 4 door dually. (Sorry you Kenworth folks will have to find another shop.) We are located well off the beaten path, on purpose. After all, no one just drops in to do some last minute shopping at a body shop. A safe, crime free neighborhood is more important than a main street one.

Our facility is a 7200 square foot building with a nice office. We use CCC Pathways computerized estimating, an industry standard estimating software. We keep all cars indoors every night.

A couple of mechanical bays with a 10,000 lb two post clear floor vehicle lift, for doing suspension work or under-car inspections/repairs. These bays are separated from the body shop area, to keep the greasy stuff and dusty stuff apart, they just don’t get along very well!

The body and paint shop has room for about 8 cars and houses the 7 tower 360 degree Chisum frame rack (this is THE BIG DOG in frame racks) with three dimensional measuring system. Gentle enough for a Honda, but strong enough for a dually.

Welding equipment, including a gas welder, (which is not used too much on modern cars), two MIG welders, (these are what most manufacturers recommend for repairing modern uni-body cars) and a TIG welder for welding aluminum, stainless steel and titanium. Not much titanium in cars, thankfully!

The paint booth is a 15x30 ft Ameri-cure down draft bake booth with triple filtration, high air flow and 64, yes sixty-four, four foot “sunlight” fluorescent bulbs. This makes duplicating a factory finish much easier. We use PPG’s high end “Global Refinishing System” line of base coat / clear coat paints with lifetime warrantee. All paint is mixed in house with the computer aided touch mix system, this makes color tinting and matching much easier and more accurate.

The last bays are the detail/wash bay and indoor storage for tow-ins. This is where the roll back tow rig sleeps. We use the roll back for free pick-up and delivery (restrictions apply, we can’t go 50 miles for a door ding but we can for a moderate to major collision).

With in-floor radiant heating and cooling (this stuff is the greatest) fully finished and trimmed like nice house, it is very nicely appointed, clean, safe and comfortable. A great place to work, this makes for a happier body man or at least a less cranky one! That makes for better job for the customer! It really does matter.