Before & After Repair Gallery
Five repairs, photographed on the way in and on the way out. The cars are a Toyota, a Subaru, a Hyundai, an Audi and a Honda, which is an ordinary spread of work here: we repair all makes and models, EV and hybrid included.
An “after” shot shows a car that looks like every other car in the lot, because there’s nothing left to see, and a wall of them tells you less about a shop than the row of first photographs sitting beside them. For what went back out, you have to look at the car itself, and the four checks further down are the ones we run before we hand one over.
Five cars, photographed on the way in and on the way out.
Every one of these five involved bumper or corner work, which is the most common collision job we see. If you want to know what drives the cost of one, we wrote a guide on bumper repair pricing. Cars with a camera or radar behind the bumper also need ADAS calibration afterwards.
What to look at when you collect your car.
You don’t need to know how a body shop works to check its work. Four things are visible to anyone standing next to the car, and they’re the same four we look at before a repair goes back out.
Run your eye along the seam between two panels, from one end to the other. It should hold the same width the whole way. A gap that opens or closes along its length means the panels aren’t sitting where the factory put them.
Look at the repaired area in open daylight, then again in shade. Crouch and look along the panel rather than straight at it, because a color that’s slightly off shows at that low angle before it shows anywhere else.
Open and close the door, the tailgate and the hood on the repaired side. They should move the way the same parts move on the undamaged side.
You’ll leave with the before-and-after measurement printout from the frame bench and the post-scan report for the electronics.
If anything isn’t right, say so before you drive away. The work carries a limited lifetime warranty on workmanship, honored at 200+ Fix Auto shops for as long as you own the car.
What this gallery can and cannot show you.
These are our own phone photographs of five repairs, and we chose which five to show you. No shop publishes the repair that went wrong. The reviews are the part of this site we do not choose, and the checks above are the part you can run without taking our word for anything.
If you have just been hit and you are working out what happens next, start with what to do after a car accident, or read how long collision repair takes and why nobody can answer that before disassembly. The rest of our collision repair guides answer the questions people ask before they choose a shop.
Get your free estimate.
Start it right here, or call us at (425) 641-5475 and we’ll set up a time to look at the car. Once you’ve filed with your insurer, we handle the insurance claim through to the day you collect the car, and we repair all makes and models.