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Welcome

Welcome to BODY Magazine on the web. Here you’ll find a taste of the news stories and advertisers featuring in the current issue of BODY Magazine

 

 

Request a complimentary copy of the December 2009/January 2010 issue of BODY Magazine by emailing: body@vbra.co.uk 

 

BODY Magazine is published by the VBRA 

 

About VBRA

Click to visit VBRA websiteEstablished in 1914, the Vehicle Builders & Repairers Association is the lead trade association for the vehicle repair, tail lift repair, car body & SMART repair industry and publishers of Body Magazine

 

 

 BODY Magazine Subscribers can
 also read the following articles in the
 latest issue:
 
 Wanted: Knight in Shining Armour - in this article read an anonymous reader's plea for a repairers' union and responses from VBRA director general Malcolm Tagg and Philip Brailey, Motor Damage Supplier Manager, Allianz Insurance.
 
In our BODY Talk series Heather Grant looks at the way in which insurers are directing policyholders to bodyshops - is work direction based on lowest cost to the insurer rather than matching damage to a repair shop's cap
 
We profile Carlac, the Leeds-based refinish distribution group, in their new venture supporting sales of Symach robotic drying equipment through customer training.
 
Plastic Repair techniques and equipment update - readerscan WIN a 3M Plastic Repair Kit.
 
Under the Skin - the SEAT Ibizia, compact car from Spain is examined by our specialist body repair journalist, Jurgen Klasing.
 
VBRA view on electric vehicles - will it affect the repair industry?

 

Whole Vehicle Type Approval has arrived. How are manufacturers coping?

 

And finally, this issue ends with a report about the mid-December visit of VBRA members to the MINI factory in Cowley, Oxford

 

 

 

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