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Hyundai Motor unveiled the ‘Le Fil Rouge (HDC-1)’ concept at the 2018 Geneva International Motor Show, marking a new era for Hyundai design and providing a glimpse of its future design cues. As its name implies, Le Fil Rouge (common thread) is a reflection of Hyundai’s belief that the brand’s past, present and future designs are all connected. “‘Le Fil Rouge’ is a reinterpretation of Hyundai’s design DNA that originated from the brand’s historical Hyundai Coupe Concept in 1974,” said Luc Donckerwolke, Executive
Vice President and Head of Hyundai Design Center. “Building on our long history of creating distinctive and sporty character in vehicles, we will open a new era for Hyundai design.” “Our goal is to build a beloved brand by creating vehicles with heightened emotional value to reshape the landscape of car design. This is the foundation of our concept,” added Sang-yup Le Fil Rouge (HDC-1) Turn to Page 4
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Le Fil Rouge (HDC-1) From Front Cover Lee, Vice President and Head of Hyundai Styling. The new concept is an introduction to the automaker’s latest approach in design, ‘Sensuous Sportiness’, which will be embodied by all future Hyundai vehicles, ranging from sedans to SUVs. The goal of this new theme is to bring instinctive beauty, creating emotional value and desirability in Hyundai vehicles. Sensuous Sportiness is defined by the harmony between four fundamental elements in vehicle design: proportion, architecture, styling, and technology.
Proportion Le Fil Rouge creates proportional character based on the golden-ratio a common mathematical ratio found in nature – which enabled Hyundai designers to create an aesthetically pleasing, natural looking composition that embodies charisma. Proportional uniqueness is further achieved through a long wheel base, large wheels and short overhangs. A respectful dash to axle – the distance from front wheel center to base of windshield –provides a comfortable driving position, whilst a teardrop roofline completes the overall look.
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the brand’s design heritage. Light Architecture generates a dynamic look and forward motion effect for the vehicle. The front and the rear pillars, as well as the roof are seamlessly blended into the overarching silhouette of the vehicle, as though it is drawn with a single line. The exterior and interior are smoothly merged by the ‘Tube Architecture’, keeping the exterior’s sensuous and sporty character consistent inside the vehicle. The Tube Architecture’s principle is to create the same emotional value inside and outside the vehicle, while also allowing for a lightweight profile. The interior design differentiates between the needs of both the driver and passengers. The front passenger seat maximizes comfort even on longdistance trips with more ample leg room, while the driver’s seat position is designed to further add to the fun of driving with optimized ergonomics. A wrap-around architecture emphasizes depth, creating a calm, spacious and comfortable travel environment for everyone inside.
Styling Another goal of the team was to create a vehicle that is instantly recognizable as a Hyundai from a distance or amongst a herd. This was achieved by creating a sensuous tension on the side through a harmonious blend of layered July 2018
crisp lines and pure volumes. Concave and convex forms are carefully orchestrated to provide a sexy character. Also recognizable is the concept’s distinctive ambience with a wide, layered front hood, combined with a further enhanced Cascading Grille, Hyundai’s most distinguishing design feature. The new Cascading Grille comes with a threedimensional treatment, featuring parametric jewels inside, giving the vehicle a commanding presence.
Technology A core design principle for Hyundai designers was to create a design that enables a seamless experience of function. Inspired by aircraft ventilation, a twoway air ventilation system blows air over the curved surface of lightweight tube architecture. Re-vitalized wood and high tech fabrics are used extensively throughout and sculpted into exquisite, sensuous forms. This evokes natural beauty with an emotional touch to add an airy feel to the vehicle. Meanwhile, a panoramic floating display coupled with haptic technology sits in front of the driver, providing access to intuitive controls for climate control and other vehicle configurations.n www.IneedOEMparts.com
Subaru Eyesight® Driver Assist Technology Reduces Pedestrian Collisions According To HLDI “We are gratified, but not surand Throttle Management; Adaptive Subaru of America, Inc. announced prised, that HLDI data show Subaru Cruise Control; Lane Departure and that a comprehensive study published EyeSight can prevent crashes, includSway Warning; and Lane Keep Assist. by the Highway Loss Data Institute ing with pedestrians,” said Subaru of For the 2019 model year, EyeSight will (HLDI) has confirmed that the automakAmerica President and CEO Thomas J. be standard equipment on the all-new er’s EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology, Doll. “Safety is paramount a proven front crash-preto Subaru, and each year vention system, is effecCurrent generation Subaru EyeSight reduces pedestrian- we continue to improve tive at preventing colliand innovate the safety feasions with pedestrians. related insurance claims by 41% percent, according to the tures and technology in our HLDI found that the secvehicles for our customers. ond-generation Subaru Highway Loss Data Institute Our safety technology has EyeSight reduced the been a key driver behind our rate of likely pedestriansteady sales growth, highrelated insurance claims lighted by 77 months of conby 41 percent, compared secutive month-over-month increases.” three-row Subaru Ascent SUV as well to vehicles without the technology. “The data clearly show that as the Outback SUV, Legacy midsize Second-Generation EyeSight EyeSight is eliminating many crashes, sedan and fully redesigned Forester Specifically, the HLDI found that including pedestrian crashes,” says HLDI SUV. EyeSight is available as an option Subaru vehicles equipped with the firston the 2018 Legacy; Outback; Forester; Senior Vice President Matt Moore. Crosstrek compact SUV; Impreza comEyeSight, which is offered on all 2018 Subaru model lines except the BRZ pact sedan and 5-door; and WRX highEyesight Please Turn to Page 7 sports car, includes Pre-Collision Braking performance sedan.
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GMC Terrain Introduces New Modern Bold Design
GMC’s new Electronic Precision Shift enables more storage room in the center console by replacing the conventional transmission shifter with electronically controlled gear selection consisting of intuitive push buttons and pull triggers.
GMC introduced the all-new 2018 Terrain and unveiled the next chapter guage, evolving the brand’s signature of GMC design via a boldly styled and cues with stronger, sharper and more intelligently engineered successor to sculpted elements such as the grille and the brand’s popular compact SUV. The lighting features. Its shape was refined in Terrain offers greater refinement and the wind tunnel to help ensure the disversatility to adapt to customers’ unique include a FWD mode that disconnects tinctive profile cuts through the air with needs, and it’s packed with more availthe AWD system to minimize drag and optimal efficiency and quietness. able advanced safety technologies than optimize fuel economy, while the AWD The Terrain comes standard with ever before. mode offers all the benefits of an active GMC’s driver-controllable Traction Select The Terrain has three all-new AWD system. available turbocharged Like the exteengines, including rior, the new Terrain’s Terrain's Expanded Range of Safety Features a new turbo-diesel. interior makes a stateTwo new efficiencyment and serves • New Surround Vision enhancing nine-speed as a fundamental • New Forward Collision Alert with Following Distance Indicator automatic transmis- component of the sions are matched with vehicle’s heightened • New Low-Speed Forward Automatic Braking the gas engines — a emphasis on refine• New Lane Keep Assist with Lane Departure Warning first application for the ment and functional• Lane Change Alert with Side Blind Zone Alert GMC lineup. The 1.5L ity. Elements such as turbocharged engine is authentic aluminum • Rear Cross Traffic Alert matched with unique trim, soft-touch mate• New Safety Alert Seat new nine-speed auto- rials on the instrumatic transmissions. ment panel and doors system, which has choices for different Also available is new 2.0 turbocharged and standard active noise cancellation driving conditions. Elements such as the gas and all-new 1.6L turbo-diesel. are premium features seamlessly intethrottle responses are optimized for the The new Terrain’s exterior signals grated into the interior design for a luxuselected driving mode. AWD models the next chapter of GMC’s design lanrious driver experience.n 6
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Eyesight From Page 5 generation EyeSight system, introduced for 2013, show a 33-percent reduction in pedestrian-related insurance claims, and models with the current-generation EyeSight system, which was introduced for 2015, show a 41-percent reduction. “Subaru has taken a good system and made it even better," Moore says. “It’s great to see the company moving quickly to deploy the technology through its fleet.” The 2018 Impreza, Legacy, Outback and WRX models earned the IIHS 2018 TOP SAFETY PICK+ award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety when equipped with EyeSight Driver Assist Technology and LED Steering Responsive Headlights. Currently, 21 vehicles qualify for the TOP SAFETY PICK+ award after new-for-2018 requirements were implemented for headlights
and frontal crash evaluations. In addition, Forester and Crosstrek received the 2018 IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK award when equipped with EyeSight and LED Steering Responsive Headlights.
Critical Safety Issue
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), 2016 data show pedestrian deaths account for 16 percent of all auto collision fatalities, and the numbers are on the rise – up 46 percent since reaching their lowest point in 2009. The increase, IIHS points out, has been mostly in urban and suburban areas where safe crossing locations might be scarce, including on busy roads designed to funnel vehicle traffic toward freeways, and mainly in the dark.
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Anderson Draws Auto Body Shops’ Attention to One-Time-Use Nissan Parts Auto body shops might be surprised by the number of one-time-use parts found on certain Nissan vehicles, based on a recent webinar held by Collision Advice and Nissan. Collision Advice CEO Mike Anderson pointed out some examples during the webinar, the second in a two-part series from the consulting firm and OEM on how to use Nissan’s extensive online library of repair procedures and other resources. Nissan uses a black dot with a white X inside to reflect a component is one-time use, according to Anderson; the OEM also might declare a part one-time-use in text within an orange “WARNING” box.
Here’s some highlights: Door trim panel Many trim elements will be onetime use, Anderson said. He showed the instructions for a door on a 2018 Nissan Altima, something a shop would R&I “every single day” to remove a door handle for blending. A small trim piece within is a nonreusable part. “Ladies and gentlemen, that was not located in the estimating system,” Anderson said. He said he checked all three, and none of the information providers classified that piece as a nonreusable part — only the original OEM repair procedures did so.
Quarter panel glass Anderson praised an insurance appraiser who was conscientious enough to check out a repairer’s assertion that a piece of Infiniti quarter panel glass needed to be replaced, even though his estimating system didn’t contain that detail. The appraiser wanted to do right by the shop, Anderson said. Anderson searched for glass-related repair procedures on the 2018 Infiniti Q60 coupe and confirmed that the quarter glass was indeed one-time-use. “Thank you for your dedication for doing the right thing,” Anderson told the adjuster. 8
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2018 Infiniti Q60 coupe's quarter glass is a one-time-use part. Nissan uses a black dot with a white X inside to reflect a component is one-time use, according to Anderson
Anderson told the webinar he found some other Q60 parts in the quarter panel area which were also onetime use. He also noted how Nissan had marked the parts with the onetime-use symbol in a diagram, placed a key reminding what the symbol meant, and featured an orange box declaring, “Replace side window glass with a new part after removal. Never reuse side window glass.” He said while he meant it in love, “shame on you” if you can’t find the necessary information. “You’re probably not looking hard enough,” he also. “They had it in here three different times,” he said earlier.
Bumper cover onetime-use parts The Q60 also contains parts which must be replaced every time a shop removes elements of the bumper cover assembly, according to Anderson. “Infiniti has several non-reusuable parts here,” he said.
Non-reusable grille component “Here’s one that freaked me out a little bit,” Anderson said of the Q60’s grille. A part behind the Infiniti logo was flagged as non-resuable. Anderson researched the component and found it to be something called an ICC sensor cover; it’s related to the Q60’s adaptive cruise control, he said. July 2018
But in this case, a non-reusable part carries the ability to render another part one-time-use. Per Nissan OEM repair procedures, whenever the sonar finisher or ICC sensor cover is removed, “never reuse front grille,” Anderson showed.
Pretensioners Some Nissan/Infiniti seat-belt pretensioners might even be one-time use even if they weren’t in use during the crash. Anderson demonstrated that the owner’s manual for the 2018 Nissan Rogue Sport declares: • The pretensioners cannot be reused after activation. They must be replaced together with the retractor and buckle as a unit. • If the vehicle becomes involved in a collision but a pretensioner is not activated, be sure to have the pretensioner system checked and, if necessary, repaired. It is recommended you visit a NISSAN dealer for this service. (Minor formatting edits.) However, the actual service manual for the 2018 Rogue Sport states, “Seat belt pre-tensioners should be replaced even if the seat belts were not in use during a frontal collision in which the air bags were deployed” for the front and Nissan Parts Please Turn to Page 24
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“The Passat GT is an example of how the Volkswagen North American Region is incorporating a local perspective into our global engineering expertise." Dr. Matthias Erb, Chief Engineering Officer, and Head of Product Strategy, Volkswagen North American Region
Volkswagen Chattanooga nnounced that it has achieved a production milestone with the completion of the 700,000th Volkswagen Passat assembled in Chattanooga. Assembled in the LEED Platinumcertified production facility in Chattanooga Tennessee, the 700,000th Passat is a 2018 Passat GT, finished in Reflex Silver, with two-tone black and grey interior. The limited-edition model uses the 3.6-liter VR6® engine and a 6-speed DSG Tiptronic® dual-clutch automatic transmission. “The history of Volkswagen Chattanooga is intertwined with the history of the U.S. Passat. As we grow and add models, we take pride in continuing to produce quality Passats in the state of Tennessee,” said Antonio Pinto, President and CEO of Volkswagen Chattanooga. “I am very proud of our team for reaching this important milestone and look for10
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economy is 19 mpg city and 28 mpg highway. Unique features include a black roof, 19-inch aluminum-alloy wheels, a honeycomb grille, GTI-like red accents, and a sport suspension that lowers the car’s stance. In addition to the Passat, Volkswagen Chattanooga currently assembles the Volkswagen Atlas, a sevenpassenger, midsize SUV designed for the American market. In March, Volkswagen also announced that Volkswagen Chattanooga will be the production home of the all-new five-seater SUV, a variant of the seven-passenger Atlas, built on the same award-winning MQB platform. The 700,000th Volkswagen Passat will be commemorated on Volkswagen Chattanooga’s social media pages, as the assembly of the car was followed from the body shop, to paint shop and to its final stop at the assembly shop.n www.IneedOEMparts.com
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U.S. House Financial Services Hearing Addresses AVs and Impact on Insurance Industry
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services’ Subcommittee on House and Insurance recently held a hearing, “The Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on the Future of Insurance” on Capitol Hill. Witnesses included: Ryan D. Gammelgard, State Farm Sam Geraci, American Family Mutual Insurance Company Ian Adams, R Street Institute Jack Gillis, Consumer Federation of America The hearing focused on the impact new vehicle technologies will have on the insurance industry. In particular, there was much discussion about data access and cybersecurity. In his testimony, Geraci said, “At American Family, we believe customers should have unrestricted access to their vehicle’s operating data and the ability to share that data with third par-
ties, such as their insurers. Vehicle operating data will play an essential role in developing rates and underwriting policies.” Gammelgard also noted the importance of data access, “First, data access is a key issue for the insurance industry. Data access is essential to developing proper pricing and underwriting of vehicles, critical for liability determinations and, from the general public’s perspective, important in determining the safety and reliability of technology.” Gillis raised a related question during his testimony when he asked, “Who will own and who will have access to the tremendous amount of pre-crash data that will be available in an autonomous vehicle?” Although it is unlikely the Committee will address these issues in the 115th Congress, autonomous vehicle
legislation in the U.S. Senate does include some language that addresses data access. Senate Bill 1885, the AV START Act, has stalled in the Senate. U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., was successful in attaching an amendment to SB 1885 that requires a federal stakeholder committee, housed at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), to review data access and cybersecurity issues as they relate to autonomous vehicles. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is also included in this committee, along with stakeholders such as independent automotive repair shops. If SB 1885 is approved, the HAV Data Access Advisory Committee will report back to Congress on these most important data access and cybersecurity issues. ASA and other stakeholders support final AV legislation that includes the Inhofe data access amendment. n
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Following up its annual fundraiser golf tournament on May 15, with the Nashville Area High School & College Transportation Career Fair the next day, the Nashville I-CAR Committee had a very busy and productive month. Raising tens of thousands of dollars for the Collision Repair Education
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A new standard in quick and reliable advanced color-matching is available from AkzoNobel. The new offering combines the company's Automatchic hand-held spectrophotometer with its MIXIT digital color retrieval technology. Now known as Automatchic in MIXIT, the system creates a single, seamless workflow which allows customers to pre-
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Chief® University Training Courses Help Participants With the rapid developments in vehicle technology, use of new materials and introduction of advanced safety systems, ongoing training in evolving collision repair techniques is becoming more important than ever. Chief University makes it easy for technicians who participate in specific courses to secure I-CAR ProLevel® Platinum™ credits at no additional cost. The partnership between Chief and I-CAR, which started in 2017, helps shops reinvest funds that would otherwise go toward application fees into sending additional technicians to training courses or purchasing new equipment. Stand-alone I-CAR credit application fees, which are in addition to course registration fees, can range from approximately $50 to $125, depending on the length of a course and the number of credits able to be earned. In the past, some technicians didn’t apply for
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Concerns Raised About Third-Party Vendors Sharing Shop Data on Customers The Automotive Service Association (ASA) cautions that some third-party vendors that collision and service repair shops do business with might be reselling their customers’ data in detail, or as an aggregate, to other third parties. This practice raises concerns that
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Addendum for those wishing to ensure the protection of their customer data. Click here to access this resource, from the ASA’s website. “The protection of personal information and proprietary technical data is a priority for consumers, regulators, legislators and class-action attorneys throughout the United States and abroad,” said attorney Patrick J. McGuire, Patrick J. McGuire Law Offices, Mt. Prospect, Ill. “As an industry, everyone should be doing everything within their power to prohibit the unapproved/unsolicited sharing of estimates and repair data that goes beyond the scope of what is necessary during the normal course of doing business.” Recently, one of ASA’s board members encountered a situation in which estimate data was unknowingly shared with CARFAX within 48 hours of the estimate being created. The board member stated that the consumer was irate because the value of his vehicle was impacted severely. He demanded to know why the shop shared the information without his consent. “Shops need to take control of their data,” said Scott Benavidez, ASA’s Collision Division Operations Committee director. “Situations like this aren’t unique, and the potential for classaction lawsuits should cause everyone to lock down their data. Nobody should be profiting from the data we are generating on behalf of our customers.” To date, the shop in question has not determined who shared the data, although when asked, CCC Information Services, the preferred estimating system provider for the shop, replied with a letter from CARFAX Communications Director Larry Gamache saying “CARFAX currently gathers information from more than 34,000 sources. However, CCC is not one of these. CCC does not report information from your facility to CARFAX.” Bob Wills, ASA’s Mechanical Division Operations (MOC) director, said the Data Security Policy Agreement/ Addendum ASA developed provides Customer Data Turn to Page 20 Southern Automotive Journal
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Safelite Points to ANSI AGRSS Standard, Seeks Auto Glass Industry Exemption From R.I. OEM Procedures Bill By John Huetter Arguing that the auto glass industry already has its own ANSI standard, a Safelite lobbyist last month called for the sector to be exempted from Rhode Island bills barring insurers from disregarding OEM repair procedures. But 003-2015 Automotive Glass Replacement Safety Standard, the most recent version available on the Auto Glass Safety Council’s website, implies glass installers should defer to the repair procedures of the automaker and the manufacturers of installation materials — which must guarantee their products meet OEM specifications. For example, it states, “Those engaged in automotive glass replacement shall use either an OEM-approved retention system or equivalent retention system as certified in writing by the equivalent retention system manufacturer directly or through a private labeler.” So how is this in conflict with a law favoring OEM procedures? We put this question Thursday to Safelite legislative affairs Vice President Scot Zajic, who discussed the standards developed by the glass industry and elaborated on the company’s opposition to the body shop-supported Rhode Island legislation. “Prior to the formation of the AGSC, the auto glass replacement industry had no standard for windshield installation,” the 2015 ANSI/AGRSS standard states. “There was no consensus in the industry regarding proper installation methods. Unfortunately, this resulted in lives lost and serious injuries that could have been prevented. The lack of responsibility for providing a proper windshield replacement has also exposed many auto glass shops and their insurance providers to legal actions from unsuspecting automobile passengers who thought their glass replacement was performed correctly and safely.” Zajic said that even though OEMs provided the aftermarket with glass repair procedures, the “ambiguity” of the Rhode Island law could potentially hold the com18
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pany to factory-level OEM repair procedures — robotic arms and long-curing/ long drive-away factory adhesives — rather than options available in the aftermarket. Under a “strict construction” reading of the law, “you’d have to take every car and ship it back to the plant,” he said. Under the ANSI standard, adhesive manufacturers must guarantee their options meet or exceed OEM specifications, he said. “We defer to their (the materials manufacturer’s) specifications, and we follow those,” Zajic said. Customers used to a one-hour driveaway time wouldn’t accept having to wait the days required by a factory-level adhesive, he said. A glass company shouldn’t have to buy an expensive tube of OEM adhesive if an equivalent exists, he said. Zajic also argued that forcing the glass industry to follow certain OEM repair procedures overlooked technological advances leading to greater efficiency. For example, an OEM might call for two technicians to install glass, he said. But an installer might have a tool that allows him to install the glass solo, he said. It wasn’t fair to make a four-person glass outfit hire four extra employees just to comply with such OEM two-man rules if the installers could get the work done satisfactorily, he told the committee. Automotive Glass Consultants President Bob Berenak, who chaired the AGSC committee developing the 2015 standards, made a similar point when asked also to explain the distinction between the ANSI rules and the OEM procedures to which they seem to defer. Using the example of the 2018 Corolla glass installation instructions Toyota provides the aftermarket, he explained: If the OE instruction pertains to safety related issues, yes, our standard bows to the OEM instructions. If the instructions are not safety related or are based on original assembly procedures that are not needed or practical to current tools, materials or procedures, we would look at each instruction and deem them pertinent. For example, “1. INSTALL NO. 1 WINDSHIELD GLASS STOPPER (for 2-piece Type). This is not needed in the Aftermarket because we use other means to hold and July 2018
position the glass other than the glass stopper. “3. INSTALL WINDOW GLASS ADHESIVE DAM” due to our use of high viscosity adhesives, positioning dams used in the assembly plants are not required in the aftermarket. However, the note “When replacing the windshield glass of a vehicle equipped with a forward recognition camera, make sure to use a Toyota genuine part.” is pertinent to a safety issue and would be followed by reputable auto glass service providers. Zajic also mentioned the need to calibrate advanced driver assistance systems following windshield work, which he called a “hockey-spike” trend. “It’s coming fast,” he said Thursday. Every OEM has its own calibration requirements, he told the House Corporations Committee. “How can a small business, let alone a large business, comply to each one of those?” he asked the lawmakers. Zajic told representatives April 24 that Safelite’s in-house aftermarket calibration solution — a piece of Bosch technology he said Thursday was able to handle 70 percent of automaker calibrations — exceeds OEM standards. (It’s unclear if any automakers have formally signed off on the Bosch system as an equivalent ADAS calibration solution.) “We’re actually taking a step back” by requiring the glass industry to follow OEM calibration procedures instead, Zajic told lawmakers. Asked if there’d ever been a situation where a glass installer who followed the ANSI standards found itself in legal hot water for not following OEM repair procedures, Zajic said he didn’t know of any but it wasn’t his area of expertise. Zajic said he wasn’t aware of any failures if a glass installer followed the ANSI standard. The industry had high customer satisfaction, he said. “There are no complaints in our industry,” Zajic said.
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Atlanta I-CAR Golf Tourney Raises Over $65,000 for CREF In its ninth year, the Atlanta I-CAR Committee's annual golf tournament in April raised more than $65,000 for the Collision Repair Education Foundation (CREF). Held at Woodstock, Georgia's Golf Club at Bradshaw Farm, this year's tournament attracted more than 250 golfers. Money was raised in a variety of ways from the golfer's $125 registration fees (or $500 per foursome), Mulligan Packages and raffle tickets. This was also the tourCustomer Data From Page 17 shops with a tool to protect themselves. The document states that all information (data) provided to outside vendors is owned exclusively by the shop and provided for the sole purpose of conducting
nament's most successful Ball Drop in its three-year history with some 750 golf balls at $10 each being dropped from a helicopter. The winner walked away with $2,000. Several new sponsors, donating from $100 to $8,000, also contributed to the tournament's fund-raising success. But it wasn't just about fund raising. Golfers were treated to 18 holes of worldclass golfing with some sort of activity welcoming them at every hole. Activities
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the award for his GDIS 2017 presentation, titled, "The All-New 2018 Honda Odyssey." Honda designed an all-new chassis for the 2018 Odyssey, based on the platform used in light duty trucks to maximize maneuverability and steering ease. They employed the Next-Gen Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE) body structure in combination with tailor welded hot stamped door rings and a new multi-connection bumper beam to enhance occupant protection. The Odyssey is comprised
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Federal Insurance Office Survives Dodd-Frank Reform U.S. Senate Banking Committee for Saving FIO The Automotive Service Association cerns for collision repairers and consumers Senate leaders explaining the importance (ASA) made the establishment of the that had to rely on a 50-state property of FIO to collision repairers and consumers Federal Insurance Office (FIO) its top priand casualty insurance based regulatory The Senate Banking Committee ority during Congress’ consideration of system. Although FIO has not fulfilled responded with a Dodd-Frank Reform the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and the mission envisioned by the original markup bill, S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Consumer Protection Act Regulatory Relief and in 2010. Despite significant Consumer Protection opposition, FIO did become Act that excluded Scott Benavidez, COC director from Albuquerque, part of the Dodd-Frank the repeal of FIO. N.M., commented after the Tuesday vote, “This is an Reform law. The Senate Banking According to the U.S. example of how collision shops and consumers can make Committee’s package Department of Treasury, FIO proved to be a critia difference." was vested “with the authorcal juncture in deterity to monitor all aspects mining whether FIO of the insurance sector, survived or not. After monitor the extent to which traditionally sponsors of the underlying legislation, the Senate passage and much discussion with underserved communities and consumauthorized structure for additional regulathe House leadership, the House passed S. ers have access to affordable non-health tory scrutiny and advocacy for repairers 2155 yesterday by a vote of 258-159, leavinsurance products and to represent the and consumers is in place with FIO. ing FIO in tact. United States on prudential aspects of The U.S. House of Representatives Scott Benavidez, COC director from international insurance matters, includpassed the Financial Choice Act on June Albuquerque, N.M., commented after the ing at the International Association of 8, 2017, which eliminated the FIO. ASA’s Tuesday vote, “This is an example of how Insurance Supervisors. Collision Operations Committee (COC) collision shops and consumers can make “In addition, FIO serves as an advimade retaining the FIO its top priority for a difference. The House had repealed FIO, sory member of the Financial Stability the 115th Congress. long-supported by ASA, and because a Oversight Council, assists the Secretary ASA leaders contacted members of number of insurers and agents supported with administration of the Terrorism the U.S. Senate to advocate retaining FIO a FIO repeal, many believed that FIO’s days Risk Insurance Program and advises the in any final Dodd-Frank Reform package. were numbered. [But] FIO has survived. Secretary on important national and And ASA’s COC met with FIO leadership at Our goal now is to work to increase FIO’s international insurance matters.” the U.S. Department of Treasury, Senate role in the property and casualty insurance ASA’s efforts were based on conBanking Committee leadership and other arena.”n
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Auto Glass Exemption From Page 18 Zajic called for an exemption to the bills similar to how the glass and auto body industry collaborated on separate licensing rules for glass technicians years ago. (He said the auto glass industry hadn’t been consulted on this bill.) Rhode Island law demands a glass technician be trained (one of the few states to do so, Zajic said) and follow the ANSI standard. “We feel very comfortable with what we’ve created in Rhode Island,” he said. “… Just exclude us. Just move on.” A substitute version of Senate Bill 2679 will go to the full chamber on May 15. The companion House Bill 8013 has not yet cleared the House Corporations Committee Zajic addressed April 24. Technically, neither measure seems to force a body shop or glass installer to do anything. It only bars insurers from requiring they deviate from OEM repair procedures. The current version of SB 2679 amends Rhode Island General Laws 27-10.22 (c) to add, “When ‘OEM part(s) are used in the repair of a motor vehicle, no insurance
company may require any repairer to use repair procedures that are not in compliance with the recommendations of the original equipment manufacturer.” HB 8013 instead adds 27-10.2-2 (d), stating, “No insurance company may require any repairer to use repair specifications or procedures that are not in compliance with the recommendations of the original equipment manufacturer for those parts.” We asked why Safelite couldn’t under such language just continue to install glass however it wanted. “That is our exact concern,” he wrote in an email. “The language is ambiguous and open to interpretation. It’s the language the body shops have used in the OEM v. Non-OEM crash part debate. “This is being driven by the Tracy lawsuit from last year against a body shop that bonded v. welded a roof on a Honda Fit. The firm now is trying to state nonOEM parts have an impact on safety system performance. “Because parts and products mandated under the ANSI standard must be equivalent and meet OEM specifications (they do either by the manufacturer guar-
antee and/or FMVSS) this debate (and language) shouldn’t apply to us.” The bill also requires consumer consent to deviate from the OEM parts catalogue for “any collision damaged part on the vehicle” — not just “body” parts — on vehicles up to 48 months. It also still demands the consent from third-party claimants — not just the “first-party” vehicles specified under current Rhode Island law. Zajic said Safelite also opposes the bill on the expansion of what parts are covered under the law. The new bill would require consent from a consumer to go aftermarket on anything from a windshield wiper to the windshield itself. He argued that unlike other body parts, aftermarket windshield glass was held to a higher standard already by the federal government and should be permitted. However, the existence of ADAS related to the glass and OEM warnings about aftermarket windshields like that cited by Berenak would seem to complicate this argument. Reprinted Contented: Copyright © 2018. DRIVEN COMMUNICATIONS INC. All Rights Reserved.n
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Ford: Opportunities for OEMs to Change Insurance With Connected Cars By John Huetter An automaker’s connection to the customer and vehicle could give it pieces of the customer value chain beyond the vehicle purchase and financing, based on a presentation last week from Ford connectivity and emerging services global director Mike Tinskey. Tinskey told a TU-Automotive webinar on OEMs and usage-based insurance (a term which can mean using telematics to set premiums based on miles driven or driving behavior) that Ford was seeing opportunities for change and disruption. The value chain of an F-150 could see a customer who bought a $40,000 truck spending more than $7,000 annually on factors like financing ($960), insurance ($1,890) gas ($2,000), parking and tolls ($1,650), mechanical repairs and parts ($1,150), and drive-through
payments ($400), Tinskey said, citing Edmunds data. Tinskey said the number of embedded modems in Ford vehicles “will continue to increase very quickly,” and a modem in the example F-150 could change spending for every one of those items, “and insurance is no exception.” The implication seemed to be that the OEM could capture a cut of that $7,000 by facilitating such transactions with a connected car. Ford in March announced that it would by 2019 deliver “standard connectivity on new vehicles, paving the way for over-the-air updates and the Transportation Mobility Cloud, an open platform that will empower tomorrow’s mobility systems.” It also that month announced an OBD-II plugin offering limited connectivity to older cars for $16.99 a month, with an option
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Ford Connect Cars From Page 27 immediately. Closer insurer-OEM partnerships could also render the DRPs of competing carriers less valuable. Usage-based insurance can weed out bad drivers who would generate more collision business — and the telematics can actually be used to improve driver behavior. Wiklund said about 36 million connected cars exist today, with 78 percent of “high-end” vehicles and 32 percent of “volume brands” sold connected — though Arity expects the latter will “change drastically” soon. He said major OEMs want 100 percent connected vehicles within the next year or two, McKinsey found 40 percent of consumers would switch brands to have a connected car, and automakers have treated the data from such vehicles as a “significant profit stream.” Arity projects the proportion of households with a connected car would in the next five years match the high degree of saturation seen today by smartphones, he said. For an insurer, even a single connected car should yield enough data “to start with” about the risk of policies for the household, according to Wiklund. “We need to start looking at connected car data now,” he said. Tinskey said that in addition to measuring the driver’s risk with usagebased insurance, “we believe the vehicle should also be scored” based on its advanced driver assistance systems performance. (This already happens to some degree at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.) Consumer Reports data shows satisfaction with ADAS, according to Tinskey, and “we are beginning our journey” to quantify the impact of ADAS, he said. Ford has begun to test vehicles with and without ADAS safety systems, and the frequency and severity data so far “are encouraging,” with claims data starting to show the same result, Tinskey said. Within the next year or two, the impact should be apparent, he said. Wiklund said insurers could indeed provide discounts for ADAS sys34
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million on ads but only saw a new auto customer yield rate of 1.8 percent.) He said Ford’s heard it costs in the $700 range for one insurer to convince a customer to switch carriers, and data suggests $3-$4 billion a year was spent on insurance ads. Insurance could instead be offered “either pre or post” at the time a customer bought a new vehicle — a tactic that’s already in place in Europe and China, and with regulatory tweaks could be modified to UBI in those countries, Tinskey said. Almost everyone in the “Ford world” buys Chinese insurance policies, at the point of vehicle purchase with a 12-month pre-pay of the $1,000 average annual cost, he said. “It’s a very different arrangement,” he said. He predicted the model would shift to dealership insurance sales for Ford and other OEMs in the U.S. as well. Wiklund said leads from connected cars are valuable, and having an insurance-grade driving score that a carrier can use for an exact quote “increases the value of that lead tremendously,” he said. A carrier can give a “much more competitive quote” upfront with such data, he said. (One can imagine a scenario where a telematicssavvy carrier can dramatically undercut the consumer’s current premium developed through traditional methods.) Wiklund said data rights, ownerships, and opting in must be addressed, but predicted the success of the program would come down to the consumer seeing the value proposition of sharing data. If the exchange was transparent and fair, they’d accept it, he said. Wiklund said the usage-based insurance utilization is about 4 percent, while Tinskey predicted about 10 percent of policyholders opted in to UBI. Tinskey said new policyholders were increasing the opt-in rate, and some insurers are seeing a “very high doubledigit conversion” to usage-based insurance. He predicted the industry would reach a point soon where not sharing data with a UBI program would mean higher premiums. Reprinted Contented: Copyright © 2018. DRIVEN COMMUNICATIONS INC. All Rights Reserved.n www.IneedOEMparts.com
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