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Vol. 10 / Issue 11 / January 2020
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CIC Committees Offer Ideas for Better Welding Practices, Documentation of Test Drives
Mosaic ADT Created to Achieve Repeatable, Error-Free Calibrations
by John Yoswick
by Stacey Phillips
Collision Industry Conference (CIC) committees in Las Vegas in Novem-
Toby Chess and Kye Yueng offered tips and best practices related to improving shop welding. Credit: John Yoswick
ber tackled topics ranging from better welding practices to OEM procedures and new ways of documenting increasingly detailed vehicle test drives. Toby Chess, an industry trainer who leads CIC’s “Technical Presentations” committee and who has conducted more than 6,000 I-CAR welding tests over 15 years, said at least five automakers – Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Audi/VW /Porsche – have OEM procedures with detailed instructions for performing destructive testing on plug welds and spot welds prior to weldSee CIC Committees, Page 20
Deer-Related Collisions Are Keeping Body Shops in Business by Tom Dees, Fox13 Memphis
While wrecking your car to bag a deer isn’t something most motorists would want to do, FOX13 found out more drivers are colliding with deer this time of year and it is a real danger on the road.
Credit: Fox13 Memphis
Ryan Diffee runs Benchmark Auto Body in Hernando, MS. He told us that almost all his business right now is because of cars hitting deer and in one case, the deer hit the hunter. “It was a deer, hit the deer came out of the woods and hit him in the front,” Diffee said. “This gentleman had finished hunting and came out of the woods and was going down the road and the deer came out and hit him.” But it’s not just in the backwoods where deer strikes happen. See Deer-Related Collisions, Page 12
There are an increasing number of vehicles on the road today with Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems
Lee Daugherty, vice president of global collision sales for Chief Collision Technology. Credit: Chief Collision Technology
(ADAS). As the percentage continues to rise, the greater the demand will be for calibration to ensure a proper repair, said Lee Daugherty, vice president of global collision sales for Chief Collision Technology. To help meet this growing industry need, Chief Collision Technology teamed up with Burke Porter Group to create ADAS calibration equipment. After two years in development, Mosaic Advanced Diagnostics Technology (ADT) was launched in November at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. “When a vehicle is in a collision, See Retain Employees, Page 18
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Court Issues Ruling, Sets Mediation Date in Allstate vs. Auto Glass America Suit by Emmariah Holcomb, glassBYTEs.com
U.S. District Court Judge Carlos E. Mendoza denied Allstate’s request to dismiss Auto Glass America LLC (AGA) and its owner Charles Isaly’s counterclaim. Florida’s Middle District Court filed the document today in regard to the Allstate vs. AGA and Isaly lawsuit. According to Mendoza, the motion to dismiss is now “moot” due to the filed amended counterclaim. Last December, Allstate filed the suit and alleges AGA and Isaly, “tried to pressure Allstate’s insureds into hiring them for windshield replacements, obtaining assignments
of benefits (AOBs) from insureds, submitting invoices to Allstate for excessive and unreasonable amounts and fil[ing] over 1,400 lawsuits for recovery of excessive and unreasonable amounts.” The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida has set a date of March 20, 2020, for mediation in the ongoing Allstate vs. Auto Glass America Suit. The mediation will take place at Rumberger Kirk & Caldwell PA in Orlando, FL. Kimberly Sands will preside over the meditation. We thank glassBYTEs.com for reprint permission.
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