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Don’t Skip Steps to Make it Last When you first get your vehicle, you are meticulous.  Nobody leaves a wrapper in it, crumbs are vacuumed up immediately, you wash it, and you wax it.  But over time, you get a little complacent.  It’s not a big deal to leave a couple of wrappers until you have a little more time.  That weekly washing turns into every other week, and eventually a month.  You can’t remember when the last time you...

How You Can Choose the Safest Vehicle Over the years, deaths due to vehicle accidents have steadily decreased (when adjusted for increased population).  While some of the safety features are obvious, others aren’t.  So what makes a vehicle safer?  What has been incorporated into vehicle technology to reduce fatal accidents? As the best auto body repair shop in Billings, we want to be able to fix your vehicle after an accident; when you are still alive that’s easier to do. ...

The Damage May Be Worse than You Think 2 out of every 5 traffic accidents in the US are rear end collisions.  Whether someone was looking at their phone, gabbing with a passenger, dropped something, or simply following too close, the fortunate outcome is that many rear-end collisions aren’t life threatening. The damage done will often look superficial: broken lights, cracked bumpers, dented tailgates, and the like.  What you don’t see, however, is the true damage that may be a...

The Garage is to Protect; Not Damage If you’re able to park your vehicle in a garage, that’s awesome!  It will last a whole lot longer that way, plus you don’t have to worry about scraping ice off the window in the morning.  But as vehicles get bigger, garages are often not quite big enough to accommodate them.  Many people damage their rigs simply pulling in, or out, of the garage. Here are a few tips to help make sure...

Finding the Best Auto Body Repair Shop Starts with Questions We all want the best.  Whether we’re looking for a great restaurant, the best clothing store, or the best insurance agent, there are few who will say they just need something good.  So after you have been in a wreck, you want the best auto body repair shop in Billings.  To find them, you have to ask a bunch of questions, here are the top 9 questions to ask in...

How does Ridesharing Affect You? It’s not a new concept, but a concept that has taken off in popularity with technological advances.  The Rideshare, a means of using someone else’s vehicle to get to where you want.  For decades it has been done with the use of taxis and carpooling.  Today, we have other means like Uber, Lyft, and other cars that are designed to be quick rentals for zipping around town. The ideas are great, and as they become...

Character and Virtue Will Last At Big Sky Collision Center, our biggest focus is on leadership.  When we are trained as leaders, we have the ability to make sound decisions, grow ourselves, and do better when it comes to providing the best auto body repairs for your vehicle. One issue that has come to light recently is why highly skilled and highly talented leaders end up failing.  These individuals know their stuff, they are phenomenal at organization, but they are...

…and How to Minimize that Depreciation Being in an accident sucks.  After the scare of potential harm comes the pit-of-the-stomach feeling that suddenly your world just became more chaotic.  When you finally seem to have things in order, and your vehicle is headed to Big Sky Collision Center for repairs, you now have to deal with the idea that your vehicle’s value just went down. Any time you have your car fixed it’s going to go down in value.  There’s...

Don’t Let Insurance Get in the way of Fixing Your Car Insurance is one of those things that we hate… until we need it.  Then we love the fact that it is there to protect us.  The only problem is that insurance is in the business of collecting premiums… not paying out claims.  So they will often try to make it so that the repairs are harder to process. Don’t fall for these insurance falsehoods!  Most companies aren’t propagating them,...

Need Collision Repair?  Familiarize Yourself with these Terms If you have been in an accident, or you are just getting around to having those dents and dings repaired, you probably know a bit about the process.  You understand the time period, the basic repair process, and what to expect when it comes time to pick up your fully repaired vehicle. But along the way you will probably hear some terms that aren’t used every day.  Some of them you may...