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Friday Fun: Golf cart chop shop and the rising cost of distracted driving

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — March 2, 2017 — This week’s Friday Fun takes a look at the recent bust of a chop shop for golf carts, the trouble with simply doing away with NAFTA, a body shop manager accused of bilking his employer out of thousands of dollars and much, much more! – […]

Florida police report that they've busted a chop shop that specialized in golf carts. That might seem weird, but the cops recovered some golf carts that cost upwards of $17,000. Okay, not so weird after all.

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Survey Says: Tuesday Ticker our most highly-rated feature

By Mike Davey Hamilton, Ontario — February 28, 2017 — Every week we run a different survey on various aspects of the collision repair industry. Our most recent survey took a bit of a different tack. This time around, we asked our readers to let us know what they thought about our coverage of the […]

The graph above shows how readers feel about our coverage of the Canadian collision repair industry. There were two possible ratings below 'Fair,' but no respondents chose them.

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Friday Fun: Car wash employee destroys a car and the art of restoring vintage Hot Wheels

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 23, 2017 — This week’s edition of Friday Fun takes a look at an airborne SUV, how smartphones are driving up insurance rates, one dedicated person who gives it their all when it comes to restoring vintage Hot Wheels and much, much more! – A routine trip to […]

This is not what customers usually expect at the car wash, but it was exactly what one couple got. To be fair, that pile of wreckage looks pretty clean.

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Friday Fun: The wrong way to get out of a snowbank, Service King may be for sale and Trump may slow aluminum adoption

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 16, 2017 — This week’s Friday Fun takes a look at a creative but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to get a car out of a snowbank, how hit-and-run drivers in Pennsylvania may find themselves up against the Amber Alert system, a science fiction custom builder and much, much more! […]

There's a right way to get your car out of a snowbank. Above we have the aftermath of one of the wrong ways.

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Friday Fun: Counterfeit hoods in Australia and thieves lift $4.9 million worth of engines from Jaguar

Toronto, Ontario — February 9, 2017 — This week’s Friday Fun looks into a case of counterfeit parts in Australia, how insurance premiums in Ireland are making it cheaper to rent a car than buy one, the coming age of automotive biometrics and much, much more! – Australia’s having a bit of a problem with […]

Geniune Holden hood on the left, counterfeit on the right. Aside from the sheer illegality, the main concern is that the counterfeit hoods are made from steel rather than aluminum. The vehicles in question were not designed with steel hoods in mind, and the associated parts can't handle the weight.

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Friday Fun: Car vending machines, Consumer Reports rates insurers and auto lending fraud on the rise

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 2, 2017 — It’s been another interesting week in the collision repair sector and the wider automotive world. This week’s edition of Friday Fun takes a look at an insurance company that just wouldn’t let a client go, another “car vending machine” about to land in North Carolina, […]

One of Carvana's 'car vending machines' in Nashville. Another is slated for construction in North Carolina.

Friday Fun: Apple sued over distracted driving, new course just for detailers and dealerships shouldn’t give up on collision

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 26, 2017 — This week’s edition of Friday Fun looks into two lawsuits against Apple over its FaceTime app, an Alberta collision instructor has designed a course just for detailers, New Zealand’s industry struggles with a technician shortage and much, much more! – Apple is facing criticism for […]

Apple is the subject of two separate lawsuits over its decision to not lock out its FaceTime application while users are driving.

Friday Fun: Cadillac offers car subscriptions and Rolls-Royce boosts sales with 3D printing

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 19, 2017 — This week’s edition of Friday Fun looks at a shop owner who donated his entire business to charity, how Cadillac plans to roll out a luxury vehicle subscription service, Rolls-Royce goes custom with 3D printing and much, much more! – The Financial Services Commission of […]

Jerry Greeff, left, the owner of One Stop Auto Service, has donated his business to Vehicles for Change, a non-profit organization. Photo by Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun.

Friday Fun: Big rig plows into shop, Chubb will pay for scans and 43 expensive cars have vanished

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 5, 2017 — The first week of the new year brought with it higher gas prices, bad weather, a collision between a collision repair centre and a big rig and much, much more! – The local newspaper in Greenville, South Carolina reports that a truck driver claims his […]

Some Lloyminster residents are avoiding Alberta's increased gas prices by the radical step of crossing the road and buying their gas on the Saskatchewan side of the city.

Friday Fun: Fancy pick-ups are more popular than ever, car thieves are targeting older models and why bumper cars need insurance

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — December 22, 2016 — It’s time for another edition of Friday Fun, just in time for the holidays! This week we look at some of the naughty and nice news from around the industry, including the current popularity of high-end pick-up trucks, how a new directive in the European […]

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Friday Fun: Toronto man walks away from a serious accident, Kamloops man has to pay big tow bill

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — December 15, 2016 — It’s time for another edition of Friday Fun, our weekly round-up of the strange, the funny, the heart-breaking and the heart-warming. This week we look into a series of ads of that pranks repair shop customers, how a man in BC wound up on […]

A teenager in Sarnia stole his parents' car and went for a joyride. It ended when ... well, you can probably figure that part out from the photo.

Friday Fun: China has over 150 OEMs, legal weed may cause collisions and auto sales may have peaked

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — December 8, 2016 — This week we take a look at the decline in insurance industry profits, China’s incredibly crowded car manufacturer landscape, why experts are concerned legalized pot may lead to more collisions and much, much more! – Insurers are reportedly running into problems due a reduction in […]

Collisions rarely go viral, but most collisions don't get talked about on late-night talk shows either. This one in Montreal earlier this week did.

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