Serving The Beaches · about 22 km from the shop
Auto body shop serving The Beaches
The Beaches sits about 22 kilometres from our door — Lake Shore Boulevard west to the DVP, north to the 401, and off at Keele, roughly 26 to 38 minutes outside of rush hour.
- Drivable or not
- At fault or not
- Free written estimates
- Drive time
- about 26–38 min
- The route
- The DVP to Lake Shore, east on Queen
Why The Beaches drivers make the trip
Worth the drive, once — then it’s your shop
Almost nobody in the Beaches has a garage, and it shows in the bodywork. Cars sleep at the curb on Willow, Leuty, and Silver Birch, squeeze past each other on one-way blocks, and hunt for parking against a summer crowd headed to Woodbine Beach. The result is a steady diet of scraped doors, clipped mirrors, and bumpers that have met a pole on Queen East. When something bigger happens — a rear-end on Lake Shore, a slide down the Glen Manor hill in February — Ontario law says the repair shop is your choice, and plenty of Beaches drivers choose the one where the owner writes the estimate himself and runs the whole claim with your insurance company.
Around The Beaches: Queen St E · Kew Gardens · Woodbine Beach · The Boardwalk
Your insurance company can’t choose your shop — in Ontario that choice is always yours. Here’s how that works.
A neighbourhood that parks on the street
The blocks between Queen East and the Boardwalk were built as summer-cottage streets more than a century ago, and the housing that replaced the cottages kept the footprint: narrow lots, shared laneways behind a lucky few, and for most households no driveway at all. That puts the family car at the curb year-round on streets like Wineva, Hammersmith, and Bellefair — streets tight enough that two passing cars fold their mirrors on instinct. Overnight sideswipes, doors caught by cyclists threading the gap, and creases from a delivery van that misjudged the squeeze make up a large share of what the Beaches sends us.
The other share comes from the visitors. On any warm weekend the lots at Woodbine Beach and Ashbridges Bay fill by mid-morning, and thousands of drivers who have never seen these streets start circling the permit blocks looking for a spot that does not exist. Parallel-parking attempts against the summer clock leave their evidence on bumpers and quarter panels up and down the south side. During the Jazz Festival in late July, Queen closes and pushes all of that pressure onto Kingston Road and the side streets at once.
Winter on the slope, summer on the strip
The land drops from Kingston Road down to Queen in a short, real grade, and streets like Glen Manor, Beech, and Balsam turn that slope into a February problem. A skiff of snow over ice on the downhill and a car slides its last few metres into whatever is parked at the bottom — front corners, curb-struck wheels, and the occasional fence. Add the windrows the plows leave on streets already one car wide, and winter in the Beaches is hard on paint, bumpers, and suspension in a way the neighbourhood’s postcard summers hide.
Salt is the slower damage. Streets get salted like everywhere in Toronto, but here the car also lives outdoors in humid lake air, so every stone chip and parking scrape stays wet longer and starts corroding sooner. We tell Beaches customers the same thing every autumn: the scrape you have been ignoring since June costs less to fix now than the rust bubble it becomes by April.
Getting a car from Queen East to Keele & Sheppard
The trip against traffic is simpler than the distance suggests: Lake Shore west, DVP north, 401 west, off at Keele — we are just south of Sheppard, about 26 to 38 minutes from Kew Gardens in normal traffic. Most Beaches customers never make that drive twice for no reason. Send photos of the damage first, get a written number back fast, and come up once with the decision already made. If your policy includes a rental, we time its pickup to your arrival so the hand-off happens in one stop.
If the car is not safe to drive, leave it where it stopped and call (647) 594-3401. We help arrange the tow, and Ontario’s towing rules mean you name the destination — not the tow operator, not anyone else. Hours are Monday to Saturday, 8 AM to 7 PM, Sundays by appointment, and the owner handles the file himself from the first photo to the final walk-around.
- Photo estimate before you drive — a written number back fast
- Tow coordinated from Lake Shore, Queen, or your own curb
- Rental through your coverage, timed to the drop-off
- One person on your file from estimate to pickup
The Beaches questions
Questions from The Beaches drivers
Straight answers before you commit to anything — and a human on the phone when you want one.
What is the fastest way to your shop from the Beaches?
Lake Shore Boulevard west to the DVP, north to the 401 west, and exit at Keele — the shop is off Keele just south of Sheppard. Against the commute it runs about 26 to 38 minutes from most of the neighbourhood. Coxwell up to O’Connor and the DVP works too if Lake Shore is jammed.
A beach-day visitor scraped my parked car and left no note. What are my options?
Photograph everything where it sits and ask neighbours about cameras — porch cameras solve more of these than people expect. DCPD only pays when the other vehicle is identified, so an unidentified hit usually goes through your own collision coverage and its deductible. Send us the photos and we will price the repair both ways so the decision is easy.
My car was wrecked on Lake Shore and cannot be driven. Can it come straight to you?
Yes. In Ontario the tow destination is your call, and the operator must give you an itemized invoice. Tell the driver Collision Auto Center, off Keele just south of Sheppard in North York, then phone (647) 594-3401 — we take over from there, including the claim with your insurance company.
In The Beaches
What we repair for The Beaches drivers
Reviews
What customers say
The line we hear most: “I couldn’t tell where the damage had been.”
Honestly, I thought my car would never look the same again — but they completely proved me wrong. I couldn’t even tell where the damage had been repaired or repainted. The paint matched perfectly, and the bodywork was flawless.
My car was in an accident and the entire rear was damaged. They replaced the rear bumper and tailgate, and the paint job was perfect — matched flawlessly. The quality of work exceeded my expectations.
Very quality service and fair rates. The staff was professional, honest, and kept me updated throughout the whole process. My car looks brand new again.
Absolutely the best auto body shop I’ve ever used. The paint matched perfectly and the car looked brand new again. They handled everything smoothly and finished on time.
Get started
Two questions.
One written estimate.
First the car, then a number to reach you. A written estimate comes back within 1 hour.
Been in an accident?
We’ll take it
from here.
Mon–Sat · 8 AM–7 PM · Sundays by appointment · Keele St & Sheppard Ave W, North York