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SERVING NORTHERN VIRGINIA SINCE 1985
Here at L&M Body Shop, our promise is to provide premium customer service and produce high-quality results, while preserving environmental practices and practicing innovation. We offer the most advanced equipment to ensure each vehicle is repaired to its factory specifications. L&M Body Shop’s dedication and commitment to the community through continual service and involvement is part of the L&M core mission.
We thoroughly inspect your vehicle to determine the extent of the damage and openly communicate the extent of work that needs to be done for a proper repair. All structural damage repairs require the proper equipment and accurate measurements to reconstruct your vehicle to factory standards.
L&M Body Shop offers the most advanced equipment to ensure each vehicle is repaired to its factory specifications. Our goals are to restore your vehicle, protect your investment, and to provide you with personalized service throughout the process. We ensure that all team members have unlimited access to the tools, training and resources they need to perform the job.
Mechanical repairs at L&M Body Shop are performed by highly qualified technicians. Our service center repairs numerous vehicles with the use of quality truck and car repair equipment. Whether you drive a passenger car, medium sized truck, mini-van, or SUV, our technicians strive to ensure that your vehicle will be performing at its best before leaving one of our stores. We are a one stop automotive repair shop, applying the same superior standards and quality, whether its mechanical or collision repair.
Many accidents lead to frame damage. If damage occurs to the inner or outer frame of your car or truck, auto frame repair is necessary to get your vehicle back in working order. L&M Body Shop repairs the frame or unibody of your vehicle to the manufacturer's specification. We service all makes and models, trucks and cars.
At L&M Body Shop, we respect the fact that you trust us with your vehicle. We only use high quality and environmentally safe products to keep your car looking like new. Our Vehicle Reconditioning and Detail Service includes full reconditioning of exterior, interior leather and dash, everything but rugs, and a paint protection application.
Whether it’s small ding, dry and cracked paint, or accident related, L&M Body Shop will refinish the paint, so your car looks like new (see our photo gallery). We ensure our experienced technicians use the latest technology and environmentally friendly products, to produce flawless results.
Paintless dent repair, also known as paintless dent removal, is another method of removing minor dents from your vehicle. A wide range of damage can be repaired using paintless dent repair as long as the paint surface is intact. Paintless dent repair is most often used to repair door dings and dents and hail damage without affecting your original paint job. Paintless dent repair may be used on both aluminum and steel panels. The L&M Body Shop team of estimators have been equipped with the expertise to advise our valued customers when paintless dent repair is the more efficient option.
L&M Body Shop understands that scheduling and dropping off your vehicle can be intimidating and serve as a major inconvenience. Our service standards are such that all individuals, at all locations, are able to drop their vehicles off with the most hassle-free experience possible. During this process, the vehicle is inspected and relevant data is entered into estimate computer systems. This data is compiled into an estimate that determines the cost of repairs. Initial estimates will not include any hidden damage that cannot be seen until disassembly. Our aim throughout this process is to adhere to transparency by thoroughly reviewing estimates and explaining required repairs to our customers. Whether you need a rental, or courtesy vehicle, all paperwork is handled before hand so that the vehicle drop-off process is a quick exchange.
This process varies, depending on whether the repair is going through insurance or paid for by the customer. If it is an out-of-pocket repair, the Collision Repair department replaces exterior panels, and all metal finishing that may be required. Disassembly of the vehicle may reveal hidden damage which is communicated to the customer. Depending on customer approval, more parts may need to be ordered and the estimate adjusted. After this is finalized, the vehicle is sent to the paint department (see next step below). This process breathes life into the vehicle again, as sheet metal is installed and aligned. If the work is being assessed by insurance, insurance approval is required. Once this is provided, disassembly of the vehicle may reveal hidden damage and is often found. Many times, this will require scheduling insurance re-inspection and upon additional approval, ordering more parts. Once this process is complete, the vehicle will go to the paint preparations department.
Paint preparations is a critical step in the refinishing process, requiring expert knowledge and meticulous application. Our skilled technicians and their helpers are master professionals, ensuring all panels are prepared for paint, then primed and sealed to assure good adhesion when the final top color and clear coats of paint are applied. Prior to re-assembly of the vehicle, the lead painter and foreman perform a quality inspection of the final product.
After the paint process is complete, final moldings and detail pieces are applied to the vehicle in our designated reassembly area. During the repair process the vehicle accumulates dust from the repairs. It will be cleaned.
All the vehicle’s systems are checked during this process. It will also be road tested to ensure that everything is working properly. A final inspection will assure that the vehicle is restored to its pre-accident condition. L&M Body Shop’s quality assurance team involves a three-pronged approach: the Estimator, Collision Repair Technician and Lead Painter meet to perform a thorough review of the estimate and inspect the vehicle to ensure a complete and quality repair. This is necessary to ensure any special additions or requests were not missed in the process. Once repairs are validated, a team member test drives the vehicle, and performs the necessary inspections to ensure all vehicle features are working properly. This process is completed for all repairs.
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