Most people think that when they find themselves in the position where their car is sitting on the lift of an auto body Salt Lake City repair shop they are then at the mercy of whatever the mechanic or technician chooses to charge them for his or her services. There are, however, some tactics that the customer of said auto body repair shop can employ to lower the price of the bill he or she may receive.

For example, most auto body repair Salt Lake City shops will charge different rates for the labor associated with mechanical repairs and the labor associated with auto body repairs. The repairs associated with the auto’s body will usually cost less than mechanical repairs. Accordingly any customer who has taken their car to be fixed by an auto body repair shop should take the time to examine the repair invoice in order to make sure that the appropriate rate had been charged for the services rendered. If the repair required is relatively minor, many times it can be repaired using a technique known as PDR. PDR is an acronym which stands for “Paintless Dent Repair.” This technique is less expensive than a repair which employs the use of paint and sanding. The customer can request this technique be used by the mechanic if the damage warrants such a repair.

In fact, if the damage is significantly minor the customer may choose not to take their car to a collision repair Salt Lake City shop in the first place and make the repair themselves. For example, scratches and chipped paint can be remedied by finding the car’s paint code (usually located inside the door jam) and then match it with the appropriate touch up paint. If executed appropriately by the customer, often these repairs can make the damage look as if it was never there.

When a person’s car is damaged in an accident the impact can be grave. The severity of the impact upon the car will depend upon the nature of the accident, the degree of force applied to the vehicle, the area impacted by the force and the angle at which the force arrived to impact the vehicle. All this is governed by the laws of Newtonian physics. However, this physical impact is not the only impact the accident will have. This other impact of which I speak is the psychological impact of damaging and perhaps loosing the use of such an important tool used on a daily basis. This psychological impact is definitely not governed by the laws of Newtonian physics.

When a person’s car is damaged in an accident and taken to an auto body repair Salt Lake City the mechanics will get to work on the car. Most of the time, however, the mechanics can do little work on the emotional impact the owner of the car will undergo. Perhaps from time to time a car owner who has been in an accident will encounter the kind mechanic with compassion and empathy. But it is rare indeed for a mechanic to have the counseling skills that a trained psychiatrist would possess. After all, that is not their job. Their job is to fix the impact suffered by your car in the accident.

Now how to deal with the psychological impact of a car accident is certainly beyond the scope of a three hundred to five hundred word article intended for web bots to read. Probably the best thing to do is talk to someone about it if the emotions feel overwhelming. This can certainly be someone in the mental health field such as a psychologist or psychiatrist. But it could also be a trusted friend with a sympathetic ear. Probably, it is best to leave the mechanics in the auto body Salt Lake City shop free to do their job.