The Yonge Street ramps write most of Lansing’s work orders
The 401 interchange at Yonge is one of the busiest merges in the country, and Lansing sits right on top of it. The collisions it produces are rarely dramatic: a queue on the ramp compresses, someone looks left for a gap, and the car ahead has stopped. The same stop-start pattern repeats on Sheppard itself between Yonge and Beecroft, where drivers hunting for the station drop-off lane brake without much warning. What comes out of those hits is folded bumper covers, buckled hoods, and — more often than people expect — damage that reaches past the panel you can see.
A rear-end tap at ramp speed can crush the foam absorber behind the cover, crack the impact bar mounts, and push the trunk floor a few millimetres out of true, all while the paint barely shows it. That is why nothing here gets quoted off a walk-around in the lot. The cover comes off, the lamps come out if they need to, and the estimate is written against what is actually there.
Teardown first, then the number
The order of operations protects you twice. An estimate written after teardown means the claim is opened against the real scope of damage, so the repair doesn’t stall mid-way while a supplement gets negotiated with your insurance company. It also means the timeline you are given covers the whole job — parts, structure, refinish — instead of only the part that showed in a photo. When teardown does turn up more, we photograph it, file the supplement ourselves, and tell you what changed and why.
We prefer OEM parts and we say so to the adjuster. Ontario has no rule forcing original parts on every repair, and insurance companies often write for like-kind-and-quality — but where a part is safety-relevant, we push for OEM, and where you simply want it, you can pay the difference and get it. Structural work is measured before and after so the fix is documented, not eyeballed, and the refinish that goes over it carries our lifetime paint warranty.
- Damaged area disassembled and photographed before the estimate is final
- Supplements filed directly with your insurance company — not by you
- OEM parts preferred, and advocated for where safety is involved
- Lifetime warranty on paint and refinish; parts-and-installation warranty on replacements
The claim runs from our office on Keele
If the other driver caused it, Ontario’s DCPD system means your own insurance company pays for the vehicle damage — you don’t chase the other driver’s company. Fault lands somewhere on the 0-to-100 scale under the Fault Determination Rules, and the shop choice stays yours either way; a recommendation from an adjuster is only a recommendation. We open the claim, meet the adjuster here, and keep you updated by the person doing the work rather than a call centre.
If the car can still drive, the run over is one road west on Sheppard. If it can’t, we help arrange the tow — and in Ontario you choose where the tow truck takes your vehicle, so say the shop name at the scene before the car disappears to a storage yard. Doors are open Monday to Saturday, 8 AM to 7 PM, Sundays by appointment, and the estimate can start from three photos sent by text.
