Ironline Auto Body & Wrap is a fictional shop. This site exists to demonstrate the KeoCodes Site Engine — the staff, hours, prices, photographs and jobs on it stand in for a real shop's, and no estimate request sent from here reaches anybody. Nothing on this site is a quote.
In the bay
What we do
Five things fill the bays, and a sixth keeps the front counter busy. Every one of them has an example range on the services page.
Panels, bumpers, structural pulls and everything behind the plastic. From a parking-lot crease to a car that needs measuring on the bench.
Spot repairs, single panels, blends into adjacent panels, and full resprays. Colour matched from a sprayed test card, not from a code alone.
Colour changes, roofs, hoods, chrome delete and partial wraps. Removable, and reversible if the paint underneath is sound.
Clear film on the panels that take rock chips — front bumper, hood edge, mirrors, rockers — or the whole car.
Machine polishing to pull scratches and swirls out of paint that is still good, plus ceramic coating and interior work.
Cracked, torn or scuffed covers repaired and refinished where they can be, replaced where they cannot. We tell you which it is.
Example ranges, in public
These are example ranges for a fictional demo shop. A range is not a quote. What a repair actually costs depends on the panel, the paint, what is behind the plastic, and what the parts cost the week we order them — which is why a firm number needs the car in front of us, and sometimes needs the cover off before we can commit to it. If you are going through an insurer, what they choose to pay is between you and them; we will write you an honest estimate either way and we will not tell you a number on their behalf.
Where your car is
The damaged area comes apart so we can see what the impact actually did. Most of what a photo cannot show turns up here: a bent bracket, a cracked absorber, a rail that has moved. This is also where a supplement gets written, and where we call you if the job has changed.
We order what teardown proved we need. This is the stage that slips most often and it is almost never our doing — a back-ordered headlight can add a week on its own. If a part goes long, you hear which part and what the new date looks like.
Pulling, straightening, panel replacement, filler where a panel needs it, and block sanding until the shape is right under a straightedge. On a structural job the car goes on the bench and gets measured before and after.
Prime, seal, colour, clear, bake. Before any of it, we spray a test card and hold it against the panel in daylight, because a paint code alone does not match a car that has been in the sun for ten years. Silvers, pearls and tri-coats take the longest to get right.
Everything that came off goes back on: trim, lights, sensors, badges, clips. Gaps get set against the panels either side. Anything with a camera or radar behind it gets checked and, where the manufacturer calls for it, recalibrated.
Two sets of eyes under the light booth, doors and hood opened and closed, a test drive if the car was driveable, then a wash. If we find something at this stage, the car does not go out — we would rather call you than hand you a job you have to bring back.
How we work
Send four or five pictures and a sentence about what happened. You get a written range back, usually within one business day, along with what we would need to see in person before that range becomes a number.
A supplement is an addition to the original estimate, written when teardown shows damage the outside of the car was hiding. It is normal on collision work. What is not normal is finding out about it on the final bill, so nothing gets added until we have called you and you have said yes in writing.
We spray a test card in the mixed colour and hold it against your car in daylight before anything is sprayed on the vehicle. On faded silver, pearl or a tri-coat we blend into the neighbouring panels so the eye never finds an edge.
You get a target date at drop-off and a stage you can check any day. When a stage slips we tell you which one and why. A shop that never changes its estimate is either lucky or not looking.
From the shop floor
We run a public forum instead of hiding the awkward questions in an inbox. Anyone can read it, and the front counter answers in the thread so the next person with the same problem finds the answer already there.
Fresh paint has to finish outgassing before film goes over it. Priya asked about a two-week-old quarter panel and got the honest number rather than the convenient one.
Pinned, because it is the question behind most of the distrust in this trade. A supplement is a revised estimate after teardown, not a shop deciding to charge more.
An eleven-year-old silver sedan needs a door painted. What a blend can and cannot do, described the way it will actually look standing next to the car in daylight.
Curb rash on a car worth about four thousand. Sometimes the answer a shop should give is that the work is not worth doing, and that answer belongs in public too.
From the Shop
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Read more about Vinyl Wrap: What It Does, What It Cannot Do, and When We Say NoA paint code gets us close. It does not get us correct. What a spray-out card is, why we blend into the next panel inst…
Read more about Why Matching Silver Is Harder Than Matching RedThe price on a collision estimate can change after the panels come off. Here is why that happens, what we do when it do…
Read more about What a Supplement Is, and Why One Shows Up Mid-RepairCare Guides
A calendar for the first ninety days — what to avoid in the first 48 hours, when wax and ceramic become safe,…
Read guide Caring for a Fresh Finish or a New WrapThe nine-shot list, the two distances and two angles that matter, the light to avoid, why the plate and the p…
Read guide How to Photograph Damage for an EstimateThe practical order of operations in the first thirty minutes — safety, the photos that cannot be retaken, wh…
Read guide What to Do Right After a CollisionStart with photos
Tell us the car and what happened, then reply to the confirmation email with four or five pictures. We send back a written range and tell you what we would need to see in person before it becomes a number.