Auto Body & Frame
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4574 Dyer Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33407
Monday to Friday, 9 to 5. Closed Saturday and Sunday.

A finished white coupe standing under the lights of a clean paint booth

What good work looks like

Body work is judged on what you cannot see, so here is what to look for.

A good repair is one you cannot see

The photographs here are licensed stock, chosen to show the stages clearly. None is a car repaired here.

Body work is one of the few trades where success is invisible. Nobody admires a panel that no longer looks bent, and a bad repair can hold up for a week.

That is why we put a term on it. Six months on the work and the parts we supply.

A car body shell coated in flat grey primer, standing in a workshop

Primer decides the result. It is blocked flat by hand, checked with a guide coat, sanded again. Gloss only repeats what is underneath.

The code is where a refinish starts

Every car carries a paint code in the door jamb or under the hood. The code gives a formula. Florida sun means it is only the starting point.

Rotary polisher with a yellow foam pad working across white paint
Super White Toyota 040 Solid white with no metallic to scatter light, so a rushed blend edge sits there in plain view.
White coupe photographed side on inside a bright booth
Oxford White Ford YZ A second solid white, and not the same one, which is why the code decides it and not the eye.
Black painted panels resting on trestles inside a white booth
Super Black Nissan KH3 Straight black returns light evenly, so any wave left in the metal shows in the reflection.

Two more where the color is built in layers rather than sprayed in one.

Freshly refinished red body shell drying inside a paint booth
Soul Red Crystal Mazda 46V Three coats with a translucent middle layer, so film thickness changes the color itself.
Hard specular highlights running across glossy dark blue paint
Crystal Black Pearl Honda NH-731P Reads black in shade and shows its pearl in sun, so a panel sprayed at a different angle can separate outside.

What to check before you drive away

None of this needs tools. Do it on any repair, at any shop, before you sign.

Technician crouching to sight along the surface of a black panel

Gaps and surfaces

A gap should hold its width and match the other side. Sight down the panel; reflections bend where the surface is not flat.

Daylight running along the sculpted body line of a blue hood

Color, outside

Shop lights flatter everything. In daylight, at an angle, a match that holds from one position and drops from another is a short blend.

Masking paper and tape being laid along the edge of a car inside a booth

Jambs and edges

Open the doors and look at the jambs and panel edges. Shortcuts show up as a hard tape line or overspray on a seal.

Deep crease with cracked paint running across a grey rear quarter panel
The cracked line along the fold is the tell. Paint is harder than the steel under it and splits where the metal stretched.

Why this crease means a new panel

Sheet metal moves before it tears. A dent that only moved can be worked from behind, and if the paint never broke it never needs refinishing.

Once the paint cracks along a crease, the metal under it has stretched. Filler hides that for a season, then the line telegraphs back. A new panel is the honest answer.

Everything we repair

The next step is an estimate

Bring the car in during shop hours and we will write it in front of you. Estimates are free.

Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Closed Saturday and Sunday. (407) 203-7824

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Gloved hand holding an HVLP spray gun through a pass across a panel
The gun comes at the end. Nearly all of the work that decides the result happened on bare metal.
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