More Ford vehicles The F-150 pickup — the industry’s highest-volume vehicle — switches from a steel body to aluminum late this year. Once the two plants that build the truck are running at full speed, Ford will overtake Jaguar Land Rover as the industry’s largest manufacturer of aluminum-bodied vehicles, with expected volume of around 650,000 […]
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GM product chief Mark Reuss said he worries about repair costs. “I read in Automotive News about the tools required to fix an aluminum truck. I saw those costs. We know it’s expensive,” he said at a technology conference in Detroit last week. Aluminum-free Ram At Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, CEO Sergio Marchionne said last month that the
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Japan’s Kobe Steel is in talks with Toyota Tsusho Corp., a trading company affiliated with Toyota Motor Corp., to form a joint venture to make automotive-grade aluminum sheet metal in the United States. In April, Novelis Inc. broke ground for an automotive sheet metal line at its plant in Nachterstedt, Germany. Outside of Ford, other
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You may as well get used to the aluminum frenzy because I can tell you that it is not going away. Those of you that thought that this was a passing trend are in for a big surprise. The auto industry is in the middle of their own competitive nature and are aggressively looking for
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Now if your tank has a single wall, or metal skin, then the job just dropped from possibly impossible to very simple. Simple at least for a PDR Technician. First, the technician attaches an object that appears much like a flag into the emptied tank. This has a flexible mounting so can be adjusted to
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Motorcycle dents have been the thorn in the side of body shops for longer than you can imagine. Well, for as long as there has been motorcycles and side-car bikes I would imagine this has been a problem. For as long as this has been a challenge, customers who accidentally knocked their bike off of
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Not having to peel back the entire roof to get to the B pillar will not only save time but is far less invasive on total repairs. The A pillar tube you can section it right on top of the B pillar. Now you won’t have the need to replace the entire assembly, saving
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Aluminum Sample Ford representatives are busy trying to convince the auto body industry that repairing the new Ford F-150 military grade aluminum alloy truck has been made easier with collision repair as its number one concern when the idea of this new truck was conceived in 2009. The new 2015 F-150 is set to hit
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Paul Massey, Collision Product Marketing Manager, Ford On April 17th, 2014, Ford reveals more information with regards to its F-150 Aluminum truck. Up to this point there has been a great deal of posturing by nationwide body shops. There is a lot of confusion surrounding Fords new technology and most of it is on the
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You’ve graduated from PDR school and you’re ready to get started just as soon as possible, do you know what your customers are looking for? There are many websites and/or blogs that are dedicated to reaching out to the consumer, advising them on what to look for and what to look out for. As a
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