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Car Repair Detroit MI

Auto preventative maintenance is the best measure you can take to keep your car running in top shape and avoid unnecessary and costly auto repairs. Eventually the time will come though when you have car trouble and it’s better to know what auto repair shop you can trust to take your vehicle to. Good mechanics and auto technicians are ASE certified and will be able to explain and handle all your auto repairs and maintenance needs. Please scroll down for more information and access to the reliable car repair shops in Detroit, MI listed below.

AAMCO of Warren, MI
(586) 298-1973
14021 E 10 Mile Rd.
Warren, MI
V & W Motors Imports
(586) 467-5553
27371 Gratiot Ave
Roseville, MI
Safelite Auto Glass
(888) 820-2558
445 State St
Detroit, MI
Collex Collision Experts of Warren
(586) 772-8877, 001-2004
13741 Nine Mile Road
Warren, MI
Ford Motor Company-Experimental Vehicles Building
(313) 433-3488, 001-2004
20800 Oakwood Boulevard
Receiving B
Dearborn, MI
Curt's Service Inc
(248) 254-7382
14611 W. 11 Mile Rd
Oak Park, MI
Consumer Car Care
(586) 461-1229
21460 15 Mile Rd
Clinton Township, MI
Safelite Auto Glass
(888) 820-2558
23221 Woodward Ave
Ferndale, MI
Main & Hudson Service, Inc.
(248) 546-6020, 001-2004
1000 South Main Street
Royal Oak, MI
Curt's Service
(248) 545-0500, 001-2004
14611 West 11th Mile Road
Oak Park, MI
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By Keith Combs
5/1/2004



Adopted from Keith Combs' article in BodyShop Business Sectioning is often the only realistic approach to a repair. But because many of today's vehicles are a hybrid of unibodies and full frames, consumers get safety and strength, while future repairers, like you, get twice as many precautions for sectioning.

Why talk about sectioning? Because after you've been in the industry for more than a week, you will have likely realized that sectioning is the only realistic approach to a repair.

Take, as an example, the door opening and rocker assembly. On many vehicles, this panel is installed during the assembly process before the roof, fenders and quarter panel. So to install this piece in its entirety, you have to remove each of the panels that were installed after the piece in question was put in place at the factory. Fenders are relatively easy, but the roof and quarter panel are normally things you remove only when you're throwing them away. In order to make a realistic and reasonable repair, you need to find an acceptable method that allows you to replace the damaged portion of these (and other) panels without disturbing any more of the undamaged body than necessary. This method (you guessed it) is sectioning.

One thing that's caught my attention over the last several years, however, is that unibodies and full-framed vehicles are becoming more and more similar. In the not-so-distant past, if a unibody manufacturer recommended s...

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