Body

A hit you did not see coming, repaired until you cannot find it

Crumpled bumper or crushed quarter panel, the work at 299 Allens Ave is the same: take the car back to how it sat before the accident, and take the claim off your plate while we do it.

Call (401) 461-9200 Request an estimate

The damage you can see is the smaller half

A bumper cover that looks cracked in one corner usually hides a bent reinforcement bar behind it, a broken bracket, and a sensor that no longer points where it should. Push on a fender that looks fine and you can find a door that no longer closes quite flush. Collision damage travels, and it travels along the parts you cannot see from the driveway.

That is why a hit-and-run in a parking lot or a rear-ender on Allens Ave never gets priced off the photo alone. Every panel, mount and seam near the impact gets looked at before anyone writes a number, so the estimate covers what the car actually needs instead of what the dent suggests.

How Ray works a job from teardown to booth

Estimates come back within 24 hours on average. Call (401) 461-9200 or send the request in, and Ray or Jenn will tell you where the car stands and what happens next. We work with your insurance company, handle the paperwork and negotiate the claim, so you are not stuck relaying messages between the adjuster and the shop.

The repair itself is done by I-CAR trained technicians, panel by panel. Bent structure gets pulled back where it belongs, new or repaired panels go on with even gaps, and the paint is matched to the rest of the car before anything leaves the prep area. Towing, onsite rentals and loaner cars are all arranged from the same front desk.

The goal is plain: restoration to pre-accident condition, not a car that is merely driveable.

Handback day and a warranty that stays with you

When the car is done, look it over in daylight. Lines, gaps and color should all read as one car, and the vehicle is cleaned and sanitized before the keys change hands. If a rental has been covering you in the meantime, it goes back when the repaired car comes out.

Every body repair we do carries a lifetime warranty for as long as you own the vehicle. If something about the work ever looks wrong, you bring it back to Allens Ave and Ray looks at it. That promise is the reason people in Providence send their family and their kids' cars here too.

A Ray's Travelers technician masking a door with yellow tape and plastic before paint

“Car got hit and run pretty bad and they made the whole process stress free” Lily Dumas, Google review

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