Panel and Paint Repairs Christchurch.

Drivers across Canterbury have brought their vehicles to Autobody & Glass Repairs for panel and paint work since 1999. Dents, scratches, smash repairs, full resprays, faded clear coats, insurance jobs and pre-sale prep. From a chip in the door of your daily Hilux through to a full respray on a family wagon, every job runs through one workshop in Belfast with no subcontracting out. Twenty-six years of work parked in driveways across Christchurch, Kaiapoi, Rolleston and the wider Canterbury region. The same workshop, the same standards, every job since the start.

Canterbury cars cop a lot. Carpark dings off shopping centre runs. Hail damage from storms off the Plains. Stone chips from the motorway. Sun-faded clear coats after years of Canterbury summers. Rust creeping in under the paint from years of frost cycles. Insurance smashes from third-party prangs, deer strikes on the Lewis Pass, and the standard reversing-into-the-pole rear end repairs.

Most of these jobs end up in panel shops that either rush the work to clear the bay, subcontract the paint out to a different facility, or quote cheap and finish the panel without proper preparation. The result is a colour match that's slightly off in sunlight, primer that flakes inside a year, or panel gaps that don't sit right. The cost of a cheap respray is having to pay for it again.

Autobody & Glass Repairs has served Canterbury since 1999. Family run from one workshop in Belfast, with three generations on the floor and the same standards applied to every vehicle that comes through the door. Darryl Froom trained as a coachbuilder through New Zealand Railways and has 40+ years on panel and paint work. Every job stays in-house, from panel beating to factory colour-match paint mixed on site, with no subcontracting out.

We send progress photos at every stage, handle insurance assessors directly, and work with all major NZ insurers including AA, Vero, IAG, Tower, State and AMI. Most jobs out the door inside a fortnight. Free same-day quote, no hidden costs, no surprises on the invoice. Servicing Belfast, Christchurch, Kaiapoi, Rangiora, Rolleston, Lincoln, Lyttelton, Halswell, Hornby, Riccarton, Papanui, Burnside, North Canterbury and Mid Canterbury.