AutoBody News’ Stacey Phillips Ronak Interviews Tim Ronak on the Necessity of Repair Planning

You may be surprised to learn that many body shops create a “repair plan” at the end of the repair when everything has been documented and the final bill is created, according to Tim Ronak, senior services consultant at AkzoNobel. Rather than a typical repair plan, he said this is more like an invoice that includes all of the labor, parts and materials needed to put the vehicle back to pre-accident condition.

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Stacey Phillips Ronak is an award-winning writer for the automotive industry based in Southern California. She has 25 years of experience and co-authored two books.

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