RepairSmith

APRIL 18, 2025

Car insurance and warranties: Standard auto insurance usually wont cover a suspension repair from everyday wear and tear. However, if the damage is caused by a collision or hitting a pothole, your car insurance may cover the repair minus your deductible. Can You Drive With a Bad Suspension System ?

Insurance

Jalopnik

JULY 11, 2025

It probably could have been saved if it wasnt valued so low by insurance. At 185k miles, all its ever asked for is a new radiator, new front struts, and the occasional hydraulic fluid fill up for the top. Its somehow simple and mechanical feeling, while being isolated and comfortable. I keep saying Ill get another one someday.

Car

Eastwood

APRIL 9, 2025

For many of us, doing our own mechanical repair work is often driven by a money saving instinct. Used correctly, they can save DIY mechanics serious money by enabling safer, more accurate, and professional-grade work. A hydraulic press will pay for itself in a few uses, not to mention save you valuable time in the process.

Mechanic

Brake & Front End

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Repair operations: Although BEV collision-damage estimates have a higher average number of mechanical labor hours than ICE appraisals (5.21% compared to 8.18%), they’re less likely to include frame labor. Frame labor is added when technicians use a hydraulic frame machine to straighten both full ladder frame components and unibody structures.

Insurance

Tomorrow's Technician

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Repair operations: Although BEV collision-damage estimates have a higher average number of mechanical labor hours than ICE appraisals (5.21% compared to 8.18%), they’re less likely to include frame labor. Frame labor is added when technicians use a hydraulic frame machine to straighten both full ladder frame components and unibody structures.

Insurance

Automotive Training Centre

JUNE 19, 2024

They evaluate the extent of damage to the vehicle’s body, frame, and mechanical systems and provide customers with detailed explanations of the repair process and costs. This includes knowledge of body repair techniques, paint matching, and a basic understanding of vehicle mechanical systems such as engines, transmissions, and suspensions.

Software

Brake & Front End

JUNE 30, 2023

When the spool valve has torque applied to it, the openings get larger to apply more hydraulic force. Replacement reservoirs can be cheap insurance against a future failure your shop might have to warranty. Most tensioners have a dampener mechanism inside or connecting to the arm. This also creates heat.

Engineering