Some collision damage does not stop at the body panels. When an impact reaches the suspension or the steering, that work has to happen before the vehicle can be called repaired. We handle it in house rather than sending the car across town mid-repair.

What an impact reaches

A hit to the front corner routinely bends a control arm or a steering knuckle. Curb strikes and hard hits into a wash edge bend tie rods and damage struts. Rear impacts move trailing arms and bend axle components. None of this is visible while the wheel is still on, and some of it does not show up until the vehicle is measured or aligned.

Why it belongs with the auto body work

Alignment cannot be set correctly while the structure it mounts to is still out of specification. So the sequence matters: structural measurement and correction first, suspension components replaced second, alignment last. A shop that aligns before straightening produces numbers that drift back out as soon as the car is loaded.

Keeping the work under one roof also means one party is responsible for the outcome. Splitting a repair between two shops is how a vehicle ends up with each of them pointing at the other.

Scope

We take on the work that a collision creates: suspension components, steering linkage, wheel bearings and hubs disturbed by an impact, and the alignment that follows. We are a body shop, so this is repair-driven work rather than routine servicing.

Desert roads

Unpaved shoulders, washboard surfaces, and flash flood debris in the washes around Mohave County are hard on suspension even without a collision. If something changed in how the vehicle drives after an impact, it is worth having looked at.

Get in touch

Describe what changed in how the vehicle handles through our contact form and we will tell you what to expect.