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Automotive Refinisher | Automotive Magazine
31.01.2025
Collision Core Pronto by Sherwin-Williams boosts body shop efficiency with automated, precise colour mixing, saving time and reducing waste.
How we manage, motivate, and connect with our staff is still tricky terrain that requires innovative ways of thinking.
TSAM’s SOMI event showed a 3% drop in vehicle sales, highlighting local success and challenges, including export and industry issues.
30.01.2025
The South African automotive sector struggles with imports, emissions standards, and slow electrification, requiring urgent government support to survive.
BASF’s Refinish Competence Centre (RCC) in Midrand, Gauteng, plays a crucial role in supporting the automotive refinishing industry across SA and sub-Saharan Africa.
Proper air supply is vital for HVLP spray guns, ensuring optimal atomisation, defect-free finishes, and high-quality refinishing results.
European manufacturers face cost and labour challenges, while collision repairers may benefit from a shift to vehicle refurbishment and repair.
To attract talent, body shops must modernise, promote tech innovation, shorten training, and enhance job satisfaction and recognition.
European automakers struggle with EV demand, rising costs, and layoffs, while Audi’s F1 future hinges on Qatar funding.
Mercedes-Benz’s solar paint powers EVs continuously, reducing range anxiety, enhancing sustainability, and transforming vehicles into efficient solar generators.
Insurers strain repairers with rushed agreements, while rapid AI and vehicle tech demand tools, training, and OEM collaboration.
29.01.2025
Advanced materials and electronics necessitate precise welding techniques, material identification, and strict OEM guidelines to ensure safety and performance.
Motor manufacturing is facing the challenges of wide-ranging technical change, and the demand for updated skills at a time when repair technician upskilling and recruitment is in crisis.
Acerios hot active plasma technology improves cleaning efficiency, reduces costs, and enhances stud welding quality in Audi A8 production.
Modern vehicle assessment faces challenges with digitisation, requiring improved processes, accurate data, and proper inspections for repairability and salvage categorisation.
What is the proper way to jumpstart an EV? Chances are that the low-voltage (LV) or 12-volt (12V) battery inside that EV has gone dead.
Storage charges help collision repairers manage costs, ensure productivity, and provide safe vehicle handling during repair delays or disputes.
RHR accelerates riveting, strengthens magnesium bonds, eliminates pre-heating, and enables aluminium use without cold storage, revolutionising lightweight manufacturing.
Calibration failures in automotive repair are often due to alignment issues, incorrect setup, or sensor misplacement, requiring expert diagnostics.
27.01.2025
The auto-retract air hose reel provides efficient, safe storage and delivery of compressed air, ideal for workshops, DIY, and manufacturing.
Auto Tech excels in advanced body repairs, with cutting-edge technology and colour matching, offering excellent service and increased uninsured driver repairs.
The welding inverter offers versatile control for MIG, TIG, and STICK welding, with easy operation and digital displays for settings.
Luxor Paints’ Automotive Twin Pack offers excellent flow, scratch resistance, and durability, ideal for plastic parts, with a lifetime warranty.
RAPTOR High Heat coating resists up to 1 000°C, offering tough, long-lasting protection for high-temperature automotive parts and surfaces.
The inflatable spray booth from Hurricane Equipment offers fast setup, air filtration, and safety features, suitable for conventional cars.
DeVilbiss spray guns offer consistent, perfect finishes. Tunzi Automotive provides parts for guns lasting up to 40 years.
The MAXXT-TECH Orbital Polisher MOP71015 offers low vibration, adjustable speed, and easy carbon brush replacement for efficient, high-quality finishes.
Founded by the Fataar brothers, Alfa Bodyworks excels in quality repairs, innovation, and training, enhancing efficiency with PPG systems.
Tesla’s die casting innovations reduce complexity, but repairs are highly restricted, requiring strict protocols for welding and straightening.
21.01.2025
The 2025 Dakar Rally brought not only victory for Toyota, but also a second place overall for TOYOTA GAZOO Racing's Henk Lategan and Brett Cummings #211.
20.01.2025
The final stage of Dakar 2025 is underway, bringing the 12-stage event to a close at the bivouac in Shubaytah.
17.01.2025
RAPTOR High Heat Aerosols use advanced ceramic technology formulated to be five times tougher than standard automotive paints, withstanding heat up to 1000°C.
All-in-all, a wonderful 28th rendition of the George Old Car Show is being planned for early 2025 at Waldo Scribante.
05.12.2024
The George Old Car Show (Feb 8, 2025) will feature Rolls-Royce, Bentley, and other British classics with 1,000 cars.
CEOs pledge R250 million to tackle Eskom, Transnet, and crime issues, aiming for 3% growth and job creation by 2025.
SAB's campaign discourages drunk driving through responsible drinking initiatives and partnerships, with support from Alcohol Evidence Centres for arrests.
The Kingsley Holgate Foundation’s Africa Odyssey showcased Defender 130s' reliability, distributing 15,880 mosquito nets across 24 African countries.
Andrew Kirby called for government action to boost South Africa's automotive industry, suggesting policies similar to Thailand’s successful model.
Aspire Art’s Collectable Cars division offers rare vehicles, including a 1976 Ferrari 308 GTB, with verified history and provenance.
29.11.2024
Challenger by Mix & Match offers rapid-drying hardeners, colour-matching toners, and high-performance primers, ensuring accurate repairs and fast service.