BODY Magazine - the magazine
for the vehicle BODY building and repair industry

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

Established 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