I came to work at Addison Auto in September of 2013. One of my first real surprises was learning that auto crashes are actually worse in Summer than Winter. Before I worked at a collision repair shop I would have assumed that snow made the roads icy and cars were more prone to crash on ice. What I came to learn is that people are much more cautious on the ice and tend to drive slower. Wrecks that tend to happen at lower speeds result in small damages. Conversely, in the Summertime people drive full speed everywhere and those same accidents that might have been smaller or avoided altogether become full blow collisions.
So as odd as it might sound, summertime is generally busier than winter. Bigger wrecks require more parts and take longer to fix. Add in the almost predictable hail season that Colorado gets every summer (4 summers in a row and counting) and you get an almost perfect storm that leaves many customers waiting months or longer to get their car into the body shop for repairs.
I recently called 10 body shops in our surrounding area to find out what their wait time was to get a car into the shop for repairs. Answers ranged pretty wildly from 4 to 8 weeks wait time and in some cases even more. Our current wait time at Addison Auto is currently at one and half weeks. My recommendation to anyone with a pending auto repair or who is considering getting repairs done this summer would be to get out ahead of the weather. Call today to get scheduled in before the summer rush. You’ll get it done faster and be happier.
