Bodytech Automotive sexes up the suburbs offering smash repair, custom and restoration services in Castle Hill, NSW.
Bodytech Automotive was one the first repairer facebook pages that we liked when we set up the Paint & Panel facebook page. We wrote a story about their custom Toyota Sera with a foxy Catwoman painted on the doors back in 2012, which the company uses to promote its custom paint service as well as for raising money for charity. But we'd never met owner Peter Christodoulou or seen the shop until it was nominated for these awards this year. Our loss.
Bodytech, established in 1998, has a small footprint but big presence with it's eye-catching logo and bright but not dazzling lime green company colours used just enough to lift the interior and exterior and really give the shop zing.
The paint shop reflects the team's sense of fun and obvious love of painting and is surgically clean. The panel shop isn't quite as attractive as it is very small. Yet Christodoulou's team of four painters and four panel beaters (including two apprentices each side) and two detailers repair 30 plus cars per week, many of them non-drives, including two custom paint jobs a week.
Christodoulou also likes to keep as many services in house, and the revenue generated from them, as he can. All mechanical and electrical repairs relating to smash repair work are carried out in house, as well as paintless dent removal. Servicing, modifications and performance work are carried out by his contractors. Bodytech also offers a complete motor trimming service from a simple repair to full custom trim outs. Not bad in just 650m2.
Reception is modern and comfortable and one wall displays I-Car certificates, the shop is at Platinum and going for Gold.
“Customer service, quality, speed, cost efficiency and integrity is our main focus,” Chistodoulou says. It's always a sign of a quality shop if you can see the odd rectification sent by insurers confident in Bodytech’s abilities around the parking lot.
Like many of our winners Christodoulou relishes change and is up for any challenges the industry can throw at him and is very positive about his business and its future. He invests in the right equipment, the right training for his staff and has a flair for marketing.
On top of that he is heavily involved in fund raising for various charities, including giving work opportinities to those less fortunate, through his work with Wayside Chapel.
Bodytech Automotive seems to have achieved a great culture where staff take pride in their work and the quality results they deliver to customers.