22.08.2006
VBRA In The Dock
The Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association in the UK is facing criticism after admitting that 30 per cent of its membership is not equipped or trained to repair boron and ultra high strength steels (UHSS), despite growing use of such materials in volume cars like the Opel Vectra.
The trade body, which represents fewer than 600 bodyshops, plus just over 100 ‘smart repairers’, says these non-UHSS compliant bodyshops will be equipped and trained by early 2007.
Countering a call by John Dwyer, former assistant chief constable of Cheshire, for the bodyshop industry to be more regulated, VBRA director general Malcolm Tagg said that he believes the situation is not as bad as indicated.
“I would be surprised if the rest of the industry was very differently represented to our members,” he says. Taggs concedes that VBRA membership is a “small proportion of the market”, however.
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