Krankor

Greetings, Northwesterners! This is my first post here on the NW forum, having recently moved to Washington from Massachusetts.

Sadly, even more recently, I managed to bash the side of my Shinka on a cement pillar in a parking garage, and now must find a body shop for the repair. Can anybody recommend a good body shop in the Bellevue, WA area? Almost as helpful, can anybody recommend any places *to stay away from*? I'm more than a little concerned about finding someone who will be able to get the Shinka black cherry right.

advTHANKSance,

Krankor
05 Shinka 6MT

Krankor

Wow, no love at all? Nobody on the east side has ever had to have any body work done?

124Spider

Someone backed into the driver's door of our RX-8 in a parking lot (with her Expedition); it's in Bel-Kirk Auto Body in Kirkland now. If you remind me, I'll let you know how it went (it's on her insurance company's nickel). This is our first body work in ten years of living here.

05TiGr8Lady

Gosh, it's been YEARS, like 1988... The last time I had work done was at Taylor's Autobody in Renton, but I can't remember the quality. Sorry!

Krankor

Thanks, I'll be interested to hear the result. When do you expect it back?

Krankor

Yeah, I'd agree that info from 1988 is pretty stale. Thanks anyway!

124Spider

Probably not until next week. It's just a crinkled door; they're putting on a new "skin," which is just the metal shell, and painting to match.

124Spider

Duplicate post....

blakew15

great body shop in lynnwood, called absolute auto body. a division of collision 1. been there many times unfortunatly but there work is great. www.absoluteautobody.com

Cam

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I can tell you who not to use. Aurora Collison Center Inc. The paint work done was attrocious.

Aurora Collison Center Inc. is part of the State Farm network and was recommended by the the service manager at University Mazda.

kristopher_d

Ouch. Talk about guilt by association. Let that be a note to business types. Be sure your associations are quality.

FABRO

Taylor's Autobody in Renton does a great job! My bro got in an accident with his civic and they did a great job w/ the paint. Recently I went to Auburn Autobody to get some body work on my 8 and they did a good job as well (fixed my fender, repaint the front and side fender, debadged the front and rear trunk).

Krankor

I'm still learning the geography around here, where's Auburn?

FABRO

Bellevue to Auburn, about 30-35 minutes. go down 405, merge to 167.

124Spider

Belkirk Auto Body in Kirkland did a good job with our crinkled door.

Krankor

That's good news. Kirkland would be a convenient place for me to go...

124Spider

As with all body work, however, it's not cheap. It seems that the best way to really fix it is to get a new "skin" for the door, rather than filling it in with bondo. That plus the painting cost the other person's insurance company close to $1500.

Krankor

Yeah, well close to $1500 is exactly what I'm looking to spend. Of which $1000 will come out of my own pocket. :-S

Krankor

So in the end, I called Lee Johnson to see if they had anybody they recommended, and they gave me a VERY strong endorsement of Evergreen Auto Rebuild, in Kirkland. So I decided to give it a shot. They were just terrific. He got it done *sooner* than promised, and it looks flawless; I couldn't find anything wrong with it. I'd certainly go back.

jisoo26

Very cool. I'll keep them in mind if something unfortunate happens to my car.

I just moved to Bellevue a few weeks ago, we should go cruising sometime

kristopher_d

When I was younger we used to see some VERY exotic vehicles going to and from Evergreen. It's good to hear they're still as good as ever.

Krankor

I could certainly be into that...

FABRO

Anyone else know any good body shops that install and paint body kit pieces? I wanna repaint the front end again since the paint started to chip.

05TiGr8Lady

Ryan, I totally forgot about this one... Check out Riverside Collision in Kent - it's just off Central Ave on 228th before you get on 167 northbound.

253-850-3822
8439 S. 228th, Kent

(The first time I borrowed my fiance's Dodge Ram 4x4, I got caught under the swingarm of a train track crossing and it came down and bounced a few times on top of the hood Needless to say, I did not want to go home that night ! After he calmed down, well really he just said "are you ok?" , he said no problem - Riverside is great. And they are (oh yeah, the truck was black ). I later took a visor for the same truck to be painted there and it also came out great)