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What will I do the first couple of weeks in a auto body shop work? What tools and technologies wiil we use the auto body shop? What criteria will a auto body shop look for to get promotions or raises?

I'm going to start training for auto body paint and repair and these are the questions I'm going to consider while working towards my goal.

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Thank you comment icon I suggest you stop in a place in your town and ask some questions. Share that this is your dream to work in an auto place. They will give you ideas and share if they have tools for you. I believe in some locations you can start as an appretice. Trisha Borme
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Rene’s Answer

I've never worked in a body shop but I know that body work is mostly labor. There's not a lot of highly technical things you'll need to know. For a lot of the things that go on in a body shop you'll need to develop technique as opposed to gathering a wealth of knowledge. Body shops use a lot of metalworking tools. Oxyacetylene torches, plasma cutters as well as hydraulic Porta powers. There's also a lot of sanding and polishing that goes on.
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In your first couple of weeks in a body shop assuming this is your only forray into the field you will be doing very little. Just like with any job you will know very little at first, and have no idea about the way things are done there. Unless you have experience or have been to school you will be doing no real body work on vehicles. You could do some sanding and prepping for paint. In a body shop you will need all the same tools you woukd need in a repair shop. While you won't be diagnosing any problems you will be removing and replacing damaged parts. Say the front end has been totalled, you would remove the damaged bumper, radiator support bracket, radiator, condenser, headlights, etc. Then all of these things would just be replaced with new. Bodyshops are not a glamorous place to work, it is hard work, labor intensive. You will after some time, like years of time, learn quite a bit about disassembling a vehicle. So you will likely be replacing some parts, you would not be doing things like straightening the frame though. That takes very expensive equipment and training.
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