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7 Tips for Navigating Slick Roads By mid-December Billings, Montana usually has seen about 15 inches of snow.  Granted, we get some warm days in between so there often isn’t more than an inch or two on the ground at any given time.  By the end of the season, come March or April, our normal snowfall is about 45 inches.  With all of that white stuff coming down, we see a lot of vehicles coming in for collision repairs (our...

Save Some Money on the Necessities As we approach the year 2020, we are getting ramped up for our New Year’s Resolutions.  On many lists will be the idea of cutting back on expenses, saving more money, or earning more money.  Since car insurance is one of those things that you have to have if you want to drive (legally), let’s slash expenses there in order to splurge on the things we enjoy. Now keep in mind that slashing expenses...

Tip: Stop Talking! John Maxwell tells us that leadership is influence.  There’s really nothing more to it; leaders are those who are able to influence others to get on board with their ideas.  The leader has the vision, and he or she influences others to adopt the same vision.  The trick, however, is how do you become influential?  In order to influence others, you have to be heard. In a world where more of one thing usually leads to more...

Staying Safe During a Stall Stalling isn’t quite as big of an issue as it was back when carbureted engines were much more common.  But there are times when you engine can just die on you.  Regardless of the reason, you need to be sure that you’re able to stay safe and avoid an accident.  As the best auto body repair shop in the state of Montana, we want to provide you with the safety tips you need most. Get...

Ideas for the Vehicle Lover in Your Life Think about your hobby for a minute.  Now imagine someone that doesn’t have that same hobby trying to buy you a gift associated with it.  It will probably be the wrong brand, the wrong size, the wrong style, the wrong color, or you already have about 30 of them.  Shopping for people’s hobbies is hard!  Here at Big Sky Collision Center we rounded up a few of the best gift ideas for...

The Easiest Way to a Great Looking Vehicle We spend a lot of money on our vehicles, sometimes pushing $100k.  But too often we get a little bit lazy when it comes to making sure that they’re kept in top shape.  Sure we do oil changes and regular maintenance, but we can tend to neglect the “beauty” maintenance thinking that it’s really not that big of a deal. A clean vehicle is a safe vehicle.  A clean vehicle lasts longer. ...

Are You Minding Those Around You? Who here is a great multi-tasker?  You can read a book, cook dinner, listen to music, and mind the kids all at the same time… right?  The truth is that our brains can comprehend one task at a time.  Switching between tasks means we have to do a soft reset and get ourselves caught up with what’s going on.  When you’re trying to multi-task, you end up performing poorly on all of the tasks...

4 Tips for Safe Holiday Travel Thanksgiving is next week.  That means you probably have your travel plans finalized if you are going to be heading out of town.  Statistics show that around 40 million people travel every year for Thanksgiving, with many of them hitting the road. Keeping your vehicle maintained is the first step to having a safe holiday trip; you can read about how to keep it maintained in our previous blog on vehicle maintenance.  When you’re...

Driving Safety Using the 12 Second Rule Most of us are pretty good drivers.  Sure we slip up every now and then, but with the number of vehicles on the road, statistically there are far more good drivers on the road than bad drivers.  But there are the bad ones out there.  There are those that cause problems for everyone.  And then there are the drivers that simply mess up and bad things happen. Because there are a few out...

Why Are More Pedestrians Being Killed? Earlier this year, the NHTSA released their annual traffic safety reports.  Amongst them was the report on vehicle vs. pedestrian accidents (for simplicity sake, bicyclists are included in this analysis).  The report wasn’t good.  It showed that despite the fact that fatalities in vehicle wrecks are going down overall, there were more pedestrians killed in 2018 than any other year since 1990.  In fact, pedestrian deaths have gone up 42% in the past decade....