Auto interior repair in Scottsdale

Seats, trim, carpets and door panels repaired rather than replaced.

Repair is usually possible

Interior damage tends to get replaced because repairing it is skilled work and few body shops do it. A cigarette burn in a seat, a split leather bolster, a cracked dashboard, a torn door card or a gouge in plastic trim can all normally be repaired in place.

A replacement seat or dashboard is a large bill, often for a part that then does not quite match the age and color of everything around it.

The Arizona list

Certain damage turns up here far more than elsewhere, and it is all heat and ultraviolet: cracked dashboard tops, faded and hardened door cards, brittle plastic trim that snaps at a clip rather than flexing, and leather that has dried until the seat bolster splits at the seam.

Seeing a lot of the same damage is useful — color matching sun-faded trim is its own skill, and it is one you only develop by doing it repeatedly.

Color matching interiors

Interior color matching is harder than paint, not easier. The material has faded unevenly, the texture has to be recreated as well as the color, and grain patterns differ between manufacturers.

Done properly the repair disappears. Done badly it looks like a patch, which is why so many shops simply quote the replacement part instead.

Get a free written estimate

Send a photograph of the damage, or bring the car in, and we will tell you honestly whether it is repairable.

Call 480-933-5635 — — or bring the car to 3002 N Civic Center Plaza Ste B, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Get directions

Everything is done in house by our own I-CAR trained technicians, and the workmanship is covered by our lifetime warranty.