1.Are you looking for a new color or touch ups in your current color?

It’s important to decide early on in the process whether you want to change the color of your car or simply touch up the current paint job. If you’re planning to change the color of your car, it’s important to take into account your cars accents, interior, and other features to insure colors will match and compliment each other.

2. What type of paint job is right for you?

You can choose from many types of paint jobs. From the color and quality to the kinds of preparations the technician makes before starting, there are many important factors to consider. Keep in mind that a cheaper job may not stand the test of time. A quick, cheap job could leave your new coat of paint bubbling and chipping away in a month, and you may end up spending more money in the long run. At Interstate Autobody and Trucking, we pride ourselves on offering top notch, holistic service at a good price.

3. What kinds of preparations should a good technician make?

When a car is repainted, the technician will spends hours dismantling and sanding your vehicle. At Interstate Autobody and Trucking, we have an array of tools and solutions that will ensure a high quality paint job that will last. Our technicians analyze each vehicle and choose the best solution accordingly.

4. Is repainting a car a DIY job?

Usually, the answer to this question is a definitive “No.” While there are plenty of materials available for you to read about repainting your car yourself, it is generally a good idea to hire a professional to do it.

 
Repainting your car can be a daunting task. Choosing the right paint and body shop could be the most important part of your decision. A good technician can not only explain the process, but also help you choose the right kind of paint job for your pocketbook and your car. If you’re looking for top notch vehicle painting and restorative services, contact us today!

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Collision damage repairs

If you’ve been in a collision, even a minor one, the framework of your vehicle could be damaged. This can have serious implications for both your truck’s overall value and more importantly your safety. Getting this damage evaluated as soon as possible can prevent both future damage for you car and improve your safety.  We’re also happy to help with less serious collision repairs and cosmetic damage. Our team is happy to fix a single truck or your entire fleet of trucks after a full season of winter trucking.

Painting

Paint can make or break you truck’s exterior look. From touching up scratches and imperfections to entire body updates and sanding, we’ve got you covered. We work on cement trucks, boom trucks, dump trucks, semis and more, so whatever type of vehicle you have we’re happy to touch up the paint job and match its current color. Our large facility in the Wenatchee Valley is well equipped and can service your company’s whole fleet of trucks to do routine touch ups or to reflect your company’s new colors.

Restoration

Our team’s mission is to help you get the most value out of your investment. That means keeping your vehicles up to date and putting in the work so they last for years to come. From quick routine inspections to full store updates, we’re happy to give your truck a boost for the new year. From sandblasting to fiberglass work and everything in between, our team will do what it takes to keep your truck and business up and running.

For veteran truckers and up and coming entrepreneurs alike, without your truck you don’t have a business. After a tough winter, it’s important to keep your truck in good shape and check for any impending damages. If you’re interested in collision damage, painting, restoration, or any other truck updates in the Wenatchee area, visit our website or come by our shop today!

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What Is Paintless Dent Repair?

Paintless dent repair (also known as paintless dent removal) is a way of repairing minor dents and dings on your car without a huge hassle. It can be utilized as long as the paint surface is intact, and the shallower the dent, the more likely the repair will be successful.

How Does It Work?

Paintless dent repair, as stated above, can only be an option if the paint is intact, meaning it isn’t scratched, chipped nor cracked. If the paint has been breached, it will require repainting in a body shop. PDR technicians go from behind the panel or through the inner doorframe to access the damage, and push the dents out that way. Most basic dents can be taken care of with minimal effort.

What Are the Advantages?

• Paint: While sanding and repainting requires the body shop to find the exact paint color and type used on your car, paintless dent removal keeps the factory paint job intact, so you don’t have to worry about a bad paint job or an unfortunate mismatched color with the rest of your car.
• Insurance: Insurance companies like paintless dent repair, and, in fact, many insurers now have a list of recommendations for direct repair shops if you don’t have one in mind already. Additionally, paintless dent repairs usually cost less than your car’s insurance deductible, which means that you can pay them in cash. By doing this, many don’t report these damages to the insurance company, so they can keep their insurance bills lower.
• Cost: Traditional dent repair requires sanding, priming, and painting, in addition to a multitude of other procedures. Since paintless dent repair doesn’t require any of these methods, and is just generally a quick and easy fix, it is usually less than half the price of a normal dent repair.
• Less Time: Spending time without a car is problematic, and no one wants to wait around at a body shop for work to be done. Instead of wasting valuable time or inconveniencing yourself with no mode of transport, paintless dent removal can be done in a matter of minutes to a matter of hours (depending on the extent of the damage).
• Convenience: An even bigger upside, many paintless dent removal companies will come to your place of work or home to fix your car, so you can plan it around your schedule.
• More Permanent: Traditional body repair methods consist of removing the panel and hammering out the damage to make it as close to it’s original shape as possible. From there, they may weld and grind it, which is a much more permanent solution, though costly. However, many people go for the cheaper option, which consists of using body filler putty, a temporary solution. It has a lifespan from as little as a few months to a few years. Paintless dent removal, on the other hand, has a much longer lifespan, as the integrity of the car remains intact.
• Quality: Since there are so many steps to standard dent fixes, there are a lot of ways that it can go wrong, and a botched dent repair is not cheap to fix. With paintless dent repair, it’s a simple process with little to no margin of error.
• Environmentally Friendly: Traditional repairs must use non-environmentally friendly products in order to have an effective repair. Paintless dent repair does not require the use of paint or solvents of any kind, so there is no release of toxic chemicals.

Challenges of Paintless Dent Repair

While paintless dent repair is generally the best way to go if it’s an available option, much like anything, there are some challenges to the process:

• Area Specific: PDR can get out most dents, but close to the car’s roof rails or the edges of doors are almost impossible to make smooth.
• Materials: Different materials may make it more difficult to access and repair the dents, and as materials evolve, new techniques must be developed to repair them.

Whether you want to sell your car, or just make it look a little nicer, find out if paintless dent removal is an option for you. Your car and your wallet will be grateful you did.

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We can handle any type of paint or bodywork required for big trucks, semi-trucks, buses, tractor-trailers, commercial vehicles, and heavy equipment. Our 60 ft. painting booth allows us to handle the largest projects in the area. And with over 50 years of experience working on auto body parts, repair, and replacement, there’s nobody in the state of Washington that can compete.

Enterprise trucking companies and independent owner-operators alike have their trucks towed to our facility for repairs. We’ve handled everything from cosmetic issues to complete rebuilds, so if you can get it here, we can fix it!

Oversized and wide load trucks and machinery, like the mega load trucks and equipment, can fit in our facility’s doors. With a 17-foot clearance, our doors are actually larger than the majority of bridges and overpasses in Washington.

Whether you’re passing through central Washington or nearby and need a repair shop within towing distance, trust Interstate Auto Body and Truck. Our expertise and experience can get your job done the right way and quicker than you’d expect. Give us a call or contact us today!

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Luckily, drivers in the Wenatchee Valley have access to some of the best technicians in body work and painting. When it comes to semi truck repair, Wenatchee is home to Interstate Auto Body & Truck – the best shop in the Valley and surrounding areas for this service.

Our semi-truck repair services are based in years of technical expertise from every one of our mechanics. The Interstate Auto Body team of technicians has over 50 years of experience in this industry, and we apply that knowledge and skill to every job.

We specialize in collision repair and body work for everything from muscle cars up to large semi-trucks. With minor collision damage to extensive repair work, touch-up maintenance semi-truck painting to full-scale refinishing, we can complete your semi truck repair and/or painting job with skill and efficiency.

We accept all types and sizes of semi-trucks, whether it is still drive-able or needs to be towed to our Wenatchee auto body shop. Interstate Auto Body & Truck has the largest paint booth in the region for semi-truck and large vehicle painting needs. It is 60-feet in length, allowing us to efficiently paint all necessary areas of the truck without exposing it to the elements during paint work. For examples of some of the semi truck painting work we have done, click here.

Interstate Auto Body and Truck has completed repair and painting jobs for semi-truck trailers, cabs, dump trucks, busses, boom trucks, and more. Contact us to learn more about our semi truck repair and painting services, or to get a free quote on your needs. We look forward to working with you!

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Located in Cashmere, Washington, Interstate Autobody and Truck has the largest facilities for large vehicle collision repair, painting, and sandblasting in the region. We can work on all sizes and types of collision repair (no engine work, unfortunately). Our collision repair technicians have refurbished anything from tractor trailers to large trucks, buses to commercial vehicles, fleet vehicles to earth-moving equipment and machinery, and everything in between.

Each of our garage technicians has many years of expertise in collision repair work, and they bring their skill and attention to detail to every repair job. Our specialists are trained and have experience with everything from your small door-ding to more extensive collision repair work.

Our service offering includes complete collision repair, with all of the necessary equipment to fully restore your trailer, tractor, and other heavy-duty equipment. Interstate Autobody and Truck has a very large paint booth at our Cashmere facility, which allows us to do the full-size painting work required for some larger repair jobs and any size of commercial truck. The paint booth is a full 60 feet – ideal for any size of tractor trailer rig. We constantly maintain our collision repair and painting equipment to provide high-quality, efficiently completed work on your vehicle or equipment.

Was your equipment, tractor trailer, or commercial truck in an accident recently, requiring some collision repair work done? No problem – contact Interstate Auto Body and Truck to discuss your needs for collision repair or painting, and we’d be happy to give you a free quote for your project.

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Semi Truck Paint Work

For semi trucks that require body work and painting for repair, maintenance from wear-and-tear, and new branding, we can handle all kinds of semi truck painting needs. Our facility is large enough to fit large trucks, commercial and fleet vehicles and more, with a fully serviceable 60-foot paint booth to fit a truck of any size. We can re-paint your entire vehicle, or do paint work on designated sections to complete repair work.

Motor Home Painting

In preparation for a summer of camping, road trips, and adventures on the open road, bring your motor home RV to Interstate Autobody for any necessary re-painting. Our 60-foot painting booth is perfectly equipped to handle any size RV as we paint it. After we handle collision repair and fiberglass reconstruction, we can finish the job with a fresh coat of paint, so you won’t be able to tell it was ever damaged!

Tractor Trailer Painting Work

We can fit any size of tractor trailer rig in our 60-foot painting booth for a fresh paint job. With Interstate Autobody and Truck, we have all of the professional equipment and expertise necessary to provide excellent painting services for your tractor trailer, commercial vehicle, and rig. Whether your tractor trailer needs a new paint job after we’ve completed collision repair work, or it’s just time for a fresh coat of paint, we can help get your rig back to work as quickly as possible.

For all of our autobody services, from collision repair to fiberglass reconstruction, sandblasting to truck painting, we pride ourselves on high-quality results at an affordable, fair rate. Each of our technicians is highly skilled and has years of experience to ensure the best autobody work. Please contact Interstate Autobody and Truck to discuss your equipment and truck painting needs, repair services, and more!

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