PANEL BEATERS | AUTO BODY REPAIRS
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A panel beater or panel beaters, is a term used in some countries to describe a person who repairs motor vehicle bodies and motor vehicle chassis back to their factory state after having been damaged in a motor vehicle accident or collision. They do this using many skills such as autobody repairs and metalworking techniques which includes welding and brazing as well as the use of lead and various body putty and spray fillers used for repairing body panels and parts which hide the damage, and this is what we call panel beating. Accident damage repairs may require the panel beater to either repair or replace the various parts of the motor vehicle in question and spraypaint these areas. These parts may be made from various metals including various types of steels and alloys and also many different types of plastics, rubbers, fiberglass and carbon fiber composites.
A panel beater will work on everyday types of motor vehicles such as cars, vans, 4X4 vehicles and trucks. Specialized panel beaters would undertake to repair damage sustained to aero planes and motorcycles and perform custom paint jobs. Panel beaters also work exclusively on restoring old cars and do not take on accident damaged vehicles in for repairs.
A coachbuilder is similar to a panel beater and both trades are today more commonly referred to as panel beating chassis straightening and spray painting due to the wide variety of cars and trucks that require extensive chassis and body repairs. A coachbuilder is a commonly associated with chassis building and therefore requires to be a body builder and repairer as a panel beater. Training to become a panel beater or coachbuilder is done by completing an apprenticeship which usually lasts for a period of four years.
Coach building remained in favour among the upper class who continued the habit of ordering custom built chassis for their motor vehicles. Many coachbuilders closed down, were bought by manufacturers or changed their core business to other activities as a result of an insufficient flow of orders.
Motorhomes are coach-built which means a vehicle which has been custom built for a particular design is a good example of a coach builders purpose. Panel beaters however are also prone to re-designing and modifying and building up motor vehicles. For example, racing cars are custom built by panel beaters in the panel beaters workshop. It is not only the chassis and body of these vehicles that are built here in the modern day panel beaters workshop, but also the crucial fitment of engine, gearbox, diff and drivelines to make these vehicles run straight.
The panel beater of today has an array of complicated jobs to rectify at each workstation that must be accurately fulfilled. Attention to detail is key in all departments and careful consideration has to paid to the stripping and assembling of each vehicle and all its factory fitted panels, computer aided wiring circuits and other parts before the finished product is rolled into the spray booth for the final spray painting process.
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