VeriFacts launched its Verified Quality, (VQ) program in April 2010. Doug Irish, President of VeriFacts stated, “The VQ program provides collision repair facility operators, as well as consumers, with a comprehensive third-party verification of a facility’s technical capabilities including their equipment, materials, technician training and skill levels and output repair quality along with their overall commitment to safe, quality repairs. During discussions with our insurance advisory and body shop advisory groups everyone agreed it was in the consumers best interest to differentiate between shop capabilities’, especially now with the exotic materials being used to produce new vehicles.”
The next generation of VQ Medallion is here. “Virtually all modern passenger vehicles now contain highly exotic structural steels, structural aluminum and structural composite type materials that require very specialized collision repair equipment and training to restore the structural integrity designed into them by the manufacturer,” stated Audie Swedeen, Director of Technical Field Operations and Training at VeriFacts. Therefore we will be introducing three categories of repair capabilities;
- Cosmetic (no structural, suspension damage or welding required)
- Structural (all cosmetic including structural, welding, measuring required)
- Aluminum/Composite (ability to repair and weld aluminum along with repair of composite materials)
With these three categories identified, the consumer and insurance industry can better match VeriFacts shops to the types of repairs needed after a crash. Collision shops may fall into one, two or all three categories based on VQ data collected, verified and maintained each month during unannounced visits. “Wouldn’t you want to know if your car has aluminum damage that the shop repairing it actually has the correct equipment and training to properly complete the repairs” stated Swedeen. VeriFacts shops on the VQ program will be easy to identify by going to our website www.verifactsauto.com and entering your zip code. Our easy to use locator will bring up those shops and what repair capabilities have been documented and are continually verified.
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