OEM Collision Repair in Seattle, WA

Nineteen manufacturers have certified this facility. Porsche, BMW and MINI, Honda and Acura through ProFirst, Volkswagen, Subaru, GM, Ford, Mazda, Kia, Infiniti, FCA, Alfa Romeo, the Cadillac aluminum network, and the Corvette C8 and Nissan GT-R programs, which are separate approvals unto themselves. We are also I-CAR Gold Class.

Those are not window stickers. Each one required an audit of our equipment, our welders, our training records, and our procedures, and each one has to be renewed. Very few auto body shops carry that many.

Why certification changes the actual repair

A manufacturer certification gives us access to that automaker's live repair procedures, which change constantly and are not guessable. It also tells us which of the many alloys in a modern shell may be heated, which may be sectioned and where, and which must be replaced whole.

Aluminum-intensive vehicles need a physically separate, isolated work area, because steel dust settling on aluminum causes galvanic corrosion that appears years later as bubbling under the paint. Cadillac and the C8 programs require exactly that, and we built it.

Calibration is part of the repair

Almost every car we see now carries radar, cameras, and ultrasonic sensors. Take a bumper off, replace a windshield, or move a structural point, and the automaker requires those systems to be recalibrated to specification. Skipping it leaves adaptive cruise and automatic braking pointed at the wrong part of the road. We treat calibration as a required operation, not an upsell.

An example

A customer's Porsche Taycan came here specifically because we hold the Porsche certification. It went back on schedule. That is what the credential is for.

11514 Lake City Way NE. Call (206) 495-4774 for a free assessment.