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How to Prevent Sun Damage to Your Vehicle Few things will wear on your vehicle like prolonged exposure to the sun.  It’s relentless, the UV rays are damaging, and it affects both the inside and outside of the car.  Fortunately, just like taking care of the other aspects of your vehicle, you can slow the damage that the sun does to your rig. Here are a few tips that you can put into action today in order to reduce the...

Maximize Them for your Benefit Leaders are made.  Growing up you probably heard that there are natural born leaders, and you either fall into the follower or leader category.  But that’s not entirely true.  There are some who are born with the personality that will lend a hand as they progress in leadership, but most people will have to learn leadership traits in order to be successful leaders.  Too often, however, we only see the outcome.  We don’t see the...

New Plastics can be Repaired Often when we think of collisions, we think of crunching metal and breaking glass.  But modern vehicles have a significant amount of plastic on them.  While the main part of the body is metal, and obviously the frame has to be made of metal, there are many aspects that are plastic. From bumpers, to panels, to light covers, and equipment housings, these plastic parts are durable, lightweight, and often get broken in a collision.  In...

Don't Ruin a New Paint Job! After any collision, and after most repairs, your vehicle will need some fresh paint.  Our paint technicians are awesome at what they do, and they can blend the new into the old in a way that you won't be able to tell the difference.  But without proper care, your vehicle may not look as good as you hoped. Yes, paints dry fast.  But drying time and curing time are two entirely different things.  Dry...

Away from Home and a Crashed Car Even getting in a minor fender bender near home is super stressful.  But now that road trip season is upon us, there will likely be far more accidents from those who are out-of-town.  Whether you are traveling away from Livingston, or you are coming here to visit friends and family, our goal is to make sure you have peace of mind and everything is handled smoothly. So what happens if you’re in an...

Only the Best Auto Body Repair Shops have These There are a lot of repair shops out there.  Some are little more than a garage, some are huge facilities.  But size isn't an indicator of quality.  There are tiny shops that are awesome, and some that miss the mark.  There are huge shops that are wonderful, and some that can't be trusted. If you're looking for the best auto body repair shop in Livingston, here are three things to pay...

Paint Matching Technology Offers a Better Paint job How many shades of green are there?  If you try to research you will get wildly different answers.  The truth is: there are essentially unlimited shades (or tones, or hues, or whatever you want to call them).  The reason is that a tiny adjustment, maybe not even visible to the human eye, results in a whole new color.  With so many different shades, you may wonder how painting, and repainting, a vehicle...

[caption id="attachment_2516" align="alignright" width="300"] In an interview after the event, Mr. Ohlin said this car was an answer to prayer[/caption]   On April 18, Big Sky Crash Repair presented a Korean War Veteran and his wife with the gift of reliable transportation. They are on a fixed income, and their vehicle is on its last leg with over 286,000 miles.   [caption id="attachment_2514" align="alignleft" width="300"] Chris and Destry Jacobs, store operators at Crash Repair Center in Livingston, headed up the...

Dead Battery?  Jump Starting isn’t too Hard Regular maintenance is an important part of your responsibility as a car owner because it ensures that your vehicle performs as optimally as possible. However, despite your diligence in keeping your car in tiptop shape, there will come a time when something will go wrong with the vehicle. It doesn't necessarily have to end up in a total disaster, though. As long as you make it a point to learn a few troubleshooting...

Or is There a Difference? The door ding.  The fender dent.   We often use the terms interchangeably.  But is there a difference when it comes to what actually happened to the vehicle?  And is there a difference when it comes to repairing that vehicle? Here at Big Sky Crash Repair, we fix dings and dents.  We also fix scratches, scrapes, crunches, cracks, and whatever other term you may think of when it comes to auto body work.  But when it...