Smart Repair Training
If you are considering a career in SMART repairs, you may be unsure whether to choose the franchise route, or become an independent operator? Either way, you will require some extensive training, help and advice to become a success.
There are benefits in choosing a franchise, including back-up support and a familiar company name. However, this can also mean anyone who has had an unsatisfactory repair by another operator in the same franchise, may damage the brands' reputation, including yours.
If you choose to become an independent, you will need to source SMART repair training. There are many training centres offering this, where training may be provided following a process with consumables and paints supplied by the same company. These are usually generic products, decanted into smaller quantities, re-branded and massively inflated in price. The training centre may then put together a package for you to purchase and continue to buy from them. These products and processes may not necessarily be the most suitable, but usually the most profitable for the training centre.
It can also be the trainer has no actual experience in carrying out SMART repairs on a mobile basis, under time pressures, or running a business. Painting a panel under guidance in a classroom is very different to a bumper on a driveway in the rain!
There are benefits in choosing a franchise, including back-up support and a familiar company name. However, this can also mean anyone who has had an unsatisfactory repair by another operator in the same franchise, may damage the brands' reputation, including yours.
If you choose to become an independent, you will need to source SMART repair training. There are many training centres offering this, where training may be provided following a process with consumables and paints supplied by the same company. These are usually generic products, decanted into smaller quantities, re-branded and massively inflated in price. The training centre may then put together a package for you to purchase and continue to buy from them. These products and processes may not necessarily be the most suitable, but usually the most profitable for the training centre.
It can also be the trainer has no actual experience in carrying out SMART repairs on a mobile basis, under time pressures, or running a business. Painting a panel under guidance in a classroom is very different to a bumper on a driveway in the rain!
SMART Repair Training with Auto Brite Smart Repairs
As a SMART repair specialist with 19 years’ experience on a mobile basis and now operating from an Express Bodyshop for a further 10 years, I feel well qualified to pass on some of my experience. I am able to provide one-to-one training for any of the SMART repair services we offer on this website, and would be able to train you to confidently carry out successful repairs, whether you are a complete novice, or an experienced body repairer who would like to learn the SMART techniques.
I would train you using equipment and consumables I have learnt to be the most suitable and dependable which are used on every one of our repairs in the running of our successful repair business.
I can source all these products directly from the suppliers, should you wish to take them away at the end of your training. This would ensure you have the same products you have learned with and if upon leaving us you have any difficulties with anything I should understand why and be able to advise how best to overcome them.
As a SMART repair specialist with 19 years’ experience on a mobile basis and now operating from an Express Bodyshop for a further 10 years, I feel well qualified to pass on some of my experience. I am able to provide one-to-one training for any of the SMART repair services we offer on this website, and would be able to train you to confidently carry out successful repairs, whether you are a complete novice, or an experienced body repairer who would like to learn the SMART techniques.
I would train you using equipment and consumables I have learnt to be the most suitable and dependable which are used on every one of our repairs in the running of our successful repair business.
I can source all these products directly from the suppliers, should you wish to take them away at the end of your training. This would ensure you have the same products you have learned with and if upon leaving us you have any difficulties with anything I should understand why and be able to advise how best to overcome them.
I have trained numerous independent SMART repairers who are now successfully trading, as well as franchisees who felt they needed a fresh approach to overcome difficulties they were having with the processes learned from their training. I have also provided SMART repair training for teams of repairers at both main dealers and vehicle reconditioning centres, visiting their places of work to give the most realistic training possible.
We are honoured to have been chosen by many customers who have travelled from all over the UK to be trained by us, some from even further afield. A dent removal specialist from Denmark spent a week with us to learn a new skill to add to their already successful business! With hotels, restaurants and shopping villages all within 5 minutes of our unit, we are ideally positioned for your training week.
I genuinely enjoy passing on any skills and experience I may be able to, in order to make you a success.
I have trained numerous independent SMART repairers who are now successfully trading, as well as franchisees who felt they needed a fresh approach to overcome difficulties they were having with the processes learned from their training. I have also provided SMART repair training for teams of repairers at both main dealers and vehicle reconditioning centres, visiting their places of work to give the most realistic training possible.
We are honoured to have been chosen by many customers who have travelled from all over the UK to be trained by us, some from even further afield. A dent removal specialist from Denmark spent a week with us to learn a new skill to add to their already successful business! With hotels, restaurants and shopping villages all within 5 minutes of our unit, we are ideally positioned for your training week.
I genuinely enjoy passing on any skills and experience I may be able to, in order to make you a success.
For any advice on SMART repairs, from training, paints and equipment, to marketing and finding a customer base to suit you, please contact us and we will be happy to help.
Training is £350 plus vat per day and we recommend 5 consecutive days as initial training. This should leave you at a level where you can complete a standard SMART repair. We would then advise practising as we have taught you and becoming confident before working on customers cars. Any further training required for any issues you are having, or to learn more extensive repair work could be on a single day basis.