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2024 CARSTAR Conference

The Canadian CARSTAR franchise network will celebrate its 30th anniversary in Victoria, BC by hosting its annual conference. Over the course of three days, the CARSTAR team, along with professionals from across the industry, will gather to celebrate this milestone, attend informational sessions and strengthen connections with one another during events like the vendor trade show.
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Average Length of Rental for Repairable Vehicles: Q1 2018

June 12, 2018
4 MIN READ

Average Length of Rental for Repairable Vehicles: Q1 2018 Average Length of Rental (LOR) for Q1 2018 landed at 12.5 days in the United States, an increase of .4 days compared to Q1 2017. This represents a return to the consistent upward trends generated throughout 2015 and 2016 after a largely fat 2017 Once again, there was very little consistency between regions and states, suggesting that the quarterly result for the U.S. is not reflective of a genuine national trend.
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June 2018 Used Vehicle Market Conditions

June 12, 2018
3 MIN READ

Average wholesale used vehicle market prices registered their first year-over-year price decline since August 2014, continuing the general softening pattern seen since the impact of the hurricanes waned in late 2017. Retail used vehicle sales, including CPO sales, were strong, reflecting Spring, tax-season demand.
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Diagnostics Systems Key to Proper and Safe Repairs for Fountain Valley Body Shop

April 21, 2018
4 MIN READ

Since opening his Fountain Valley body shop over 40 years ago, owner Dave March has had a front row seat witnessing the evolution of the collision repair industry. In 1974 when his shop opened, only one automobile manufacturer offered airbags, and the NHTSA was still five years away from crash-testing popular cars to encourage manufacturers to improve the safety of their vehicles.
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January 2018 Used Vehicle Market Conditions

April 3, 2018
3 MIN READ

Wholesale used vehicle prices started the year in the pattern that characterized much of 2017 in the months prior to hurricane season. Namely, car prices tended to fall while truck prices provided a boost to average wholesale values. In January, car prices continued to show year-over-year price declines, while truck prices did the opposite, but that situation is moving towards parity, as indicated by strong month-over-month increases in car prices.
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Average Length of Rental for Repairable Vehicles: Q4 2017

March 17, 2018
4 MIN READ

Average Length of Rental (LOR) for Q4 2017 landed at 12.4 days in the United States, a decrease of .1 days compared to Q4 2016. This produced a final LOR for Calendar 2017 of 12.04 days, up slightly from 11.98 in 2016. Once again, there was very little consistency between regions and states, suggesting that the quarterly result for the U.S. is not reflective of a genuine national trend.
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Mitchell Collision Repair Industry Data: Q4 2017

March 17, 2018
6 MIN READ

The initial average appraisal value, calculated by combining data from all first and third-party repairable vehicle appraisals uploaded through Mitchell systems in Q4 2017, was $3,151. Continued development suggests a final Q4 2017 average appraisal value of $3,184, which represents an increase of $67 compared to the same quarter last year.
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Total Loss: Q4 2017

March 17, 2018
1 MIN READ

Total loss data for both vehicle age and actual cash value of total loss vehicles processed through Mitchell servers.