CARSTAR Automotive Canada

CARSTAR Automotive Canada is developing and launching plastic repair training for collision repair centres across Canada. The initiative started in the summer of 2009, when Bill Davidge, mediation and systems specialist for CARSTAR Automotive Canada, thought about how to reduce the amount of plastic parts being replaced instead of repaired. Davidge wanted to show CARSTAR Collision Centres that repairing the plastic parts of a car would be much more efficient and profitable. “When I saw stores buying remanufactured bumpers, I thought: ‘Why are we buying these bumpers when we can do these repairs ourselves?’ After completing research on a plastic repair process, Davidge travelled to Alabama to learn how to do it himself. He has since been sharing his knowledge with the CARSTAR network. Davidge has been travelling across Ontario, Alberta and Quebec for the past year, making scheduled stops at CARSTAR Collision Centres to train 250 collision technicians, insurers and store owners on the new repair plastic system.Davidge will continue to offer this training across Canada throughout 2011.