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The Estimate is Part of the Repair Process After you’ve been involved in an accident, you have a lot on your mind.  Not the least of your worries is how you’re going to get the vehicle repaired!  Dealing with the insurance companies doesn’t make things any better either.  In order to make life easier for you, we have streamlined the repair process as much as we can. The auto body repair process begins with an estimate on how much the...

Don’t be One of the Things that Slow Down In the winter things slow down.  Quite literally when we are talking about water.  Figuratively when we are talking about business, motivation, leadership, and life in general.  It’s estimated that as many as 25% of people suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a mild depression that sets in; often called the mid-winter blues.  It’s during this time that our motivation can drop, and our leadership can suffer. There are ways to...

Most Vehicles are Subject to It There are certain words that you really only encounter when you’re working in certain industries.  For example, if you work in the insurance industry, you probably use the word “indemnification” quite often.  If you’re not in the insurance business, you likely have never used it, nor will you ever use that particular word. When you work in the auto body restoration business, you come across a lot of jargon.  Sometimes it’s pretty common stuff...

Skip the Resolutions this Year We are just a few days into the New Year.  No, it’s not too late to make your resolutions, goals, and plan for how you are going to shape your year to be.  Remember, the year is only as good as you make it, and without a plan it’s not going to go the way you want it to. But while we have been drilled with New Year’s resolutions, let’s resolve to skip them this...

Make 2019 the Safest Year There are dramatically fewer car accidents now than there were 50-60 years ago.  But there are still far more than necessary, and the vast majority of them can be prevented if we all just make a few commitments to drive safer. Our goal is to be the best auto body repair shop in Billings.  And that starts with making sure that you are safe on the roads.  We offer driving tips so that you can...

A Maintained Vehicle Stays on the Road The average age of a vehicle on the road today is 11.5 years.  The average driver puts on a little over 13,000 miles each year.  Given those numbers, half of the vehicles on the road have more than 150,000 miles on them.  There’s a good chance that if you’re reading this, then you are driving a vehicle that is a high mileage vehicle (a vehicle with more than 100,000 miles on it is...

Factory Certification Means a Lot After you have been involved in a collision, you have the right to take your vehicle to any auto body repair shop that you want.  While your insurance company can make suggestions, you get the final say in the matter.  So if you are in need of auto body work, why not go to the collision center with the most factory certifications in a multi-state area? You may be thinking, “Why do I need factory...

Need a New Vehicle?  Choose the Safest If you look at vehicle safety statistics over the past few decades you notice a positive trend.  No matter how you look at it, even the vehicle that gets the worst ratings for safety this year is still safer than anything else on the road even just 20 years ago.  The biggest reason: technology improvements. As technology is incorporated into vehicles more and more, they get safer.  Blind spot monitoring, automatic braking, backup...

Crowded Shopping Can Lead to Dinged Vehicles This time of year there are a lot of people shopping.  Cramming in those last minute gift ideas leads to cramming into parking lots that aren’t quite capable of handling that many vehicles.  So what do you do if you’re the victim, or the at-fault driver, of a parking lot collision? Even better than worrying about what to do after an accident, let’s learn how to prevent one in the first place.  As...

Buy Your Loved One an Auto Themed Gift this Year Here at Big Sky Collision Center, we love vehicles.  The intricacies of the engines, the sleek designs, the memories and stories they tell.  If you’re here, you or a loved one hold that same passion for the automobile. The problem is that buying something for the car enthusiast is hard!  You don’t want to get them the wrong thing.  And too often the universal items (like a steering wheel cover)...