Unnecessary vehicle prep times costing dealers thousands, says Revive!

New data from Revive! Auto Innovations, the UK’s leading provider of mobile Smart Repairs, has revealed that the average dealership could be wasting tens of thousands of pounds every month waiting for vehicles to be prepared for the forecourt.

With increasing pressure to streamline overheads coupled with rapidly rising stocking charges, speed has never been more important when it comes to evaluating and repairing used vehicles. However, dealers are facing an uphill battle as they experience widespread technician shortages, which in turn create capacity shortfalls and record repair backlogs.

Mark Llewelyn, Managing Director (Sales and Marketing) at Revive!, commented: “With the cost of borrowing rising and profit margins squeezed, dealers are currently facing a perfect storm of issues requiring them to reduce costs and push through sales at pace. However, the increasing backlogs at body shops are causing stocking fees to rise rapidly as each day passes that the car is not on sale. After all, with every car awaiting preparation comes a painful daily cost – multiply this by your total stock count and the financial impact becomes painfully clear.

Insight from Revive! suggests that vehicle preparation times can be brought down dramatically by removing cosmetic repairs from the body shop queue. In leveraging a mobile Smart Repair service to solve cosmetic issues, cars can spend less time in preparation and longer in front of potential buyers, with the added benefit of freeing up in-house technicians to focus on major accident repairs.

Implementing Revive!’s fully mobile service at dealerships helps to sell more cars profitably by relieving the dealer of more minor repairs thus reducing stock preparation times and avoiding the costs and downtime associated with traditional body shops.

Llewellyn added: “By working with a specialist service provider like Revive!, dealers can save thousands. Quality Smart repairs require advanced skills that Revive!’s IMI accredited technicians are specially trained in. Our national network of over 250 technicians covers all four corners of the UK and can come in any day of the week, to prep cars for sale in a fraction of the time it takes them to get through the body shop process.”

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