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Auto body & collision repair for Kearny, NJ
Trailers, potholes, tight driveways — one shop for what they leave behind.
Our shop is on Bayview Ave in Greenville, Jersey City, about 8.5 miles from Kearny Town Hall — roughly twenty-five minutes outside rush hour by the Newark-Jersey City Turnpike or the NJ Turnpike. Truck side-swipes, bent rims and driveway scrapes are fixed under one roof, and an undrivable car can be towed in around the clock.
What Kearny drivers bring us most often
Kearny searches do not say "body shop" — they say frame straightening, auto body painting, dent removal, bumper repair and scratch repair, usually with "Kearny" after it. The town is a truck corridor: Truck 1&9 and the Belleville Turnpike put trailers next to cars every day, the Hackensack bridges and Schuyler Avenue carry the potholes, and the two-family driveways in the Manor are tight. So the five jobs below are the ones that arrive from Kearny week after week. Each has a starting price on our side of the river; each is written up the same business day from photos, free, so you can compare it with any quote closer to home before you drive over.
| What Kearny drivers ask for | Our starting price | Time in the shop |
|---|---|---|
| Frame straightening — unibody measured and pulled on the frame bench, camera and radar calibrated after | quoted after measurement, in the insurer's format; calibration $250–$450 per system | 1–3 weeks |
| Auto body painting — color mixed in our own room, blended into the next panel | bumper from $450 · door or fender from $600 · full panel from $800 | 2–7 days |
| Dent removal — door dings and shallow dents pushed out, factory paint untouched | $150–$250 per ding · $250–$450 up to about three inches | same day to 2 days |
| Bumper repair — cover repaired and painted rather than replaced wherever the tabs are sound | from $450 | 2–3 days |
| Car scratch repair — polished out, touched up or refinished, depending on how deep the fingernail test says it goes | machine polish from $499 · touch-up $599 · full panel from $800 | 1–7 days |
A trailer side-swipe on Truck 1&9 usually combines three of these — a scraped door, a dented quarter and a bumper corner — and it is priced as one repair on one estimate, with the blend between panels already on the sheet. A pothole on the Belleville Turnpike is the other Kearny regular: a bent rim straightened for $150–$300 and the suspension checked on the same visit. If the car is not drivable, towing intake runs around the clock and Kearny pickups are routine.
Getting here from Kearny
Two ways over, about the same time.
The shop is on Bayview Ave in Greenville, Jersey City: about 8.5 miles from Kearny Town Hall by the local road or 13 by the Turnpike, and roughly twenty-five minutes either way outside rush hour.
- Newark-Jersey City Turnpike east across the Hackensack (the local road, not the NJ Turnpike) — about 8.5 miles, 27 minutes
- NJ Turnpike and the Newark Bay Extension (I-78) to Exit 14A, then Route 440 north — about 13 miles, tolls, around 24 minutes
- Those times are for light traffic; at rush hour, leave extra room whichever way you come
- Not drivable? Towing intake runs around the clock, and Kearny pickups are routine
You do not have to make the drive just to get a price: send 4–8 photos and a real estimator replies the same business day, in writing and free. If you would rather show us in person, parking on site is free while the estimate is written.
What Kearny roads do to cars
Trucks on one side, driveways on the other.
South Kearny and the meadows run on freight: warehouses, yards and the truck routes between them. Around Kearny Avenue it is houses, narrow driveways and street parking. The damage we see from Kearny comes from both halves of town.
Sharing a lane with trailers
Truck 1&9 and Route 7 carry trailers all day, and one that drifts a foot leaves a scrape across two or three panels and often takes the mirror. We repair each panel and blend the color along the side so it reads as one finish, then check the mirror's camera or signal and the blind-spot radar in the rear bumper corner.
Pavement that carries freight
Roads that carry loaded trailers break up faster than residential streets, and a pothole edge bends the inner lip of a rim — out of sight behind the tire, felt later as a shake at speed. Bent rims are straightened on a lathe for $150–$300 a wheel and re-balanced, and we check the rest of that corner: the same hit can bend a control arm.
Narrow driveways, street parking
Around Kearny Avenue, cars squeeze down narrow driveways or live on the street: a rear bumper corner meets a fence post on the way out, a door edge meets a wall, a mirror gets clipped by passing traffic. Most bumper covers are repaired, not replaced — from $450, two to three days — and a dent with unbroken paint comes out with paintless dent repair.
What we handle
One building, one job card.
A side-swipe rarely stops at the paint: the mirror, a wheel or a sensor is part of the same hit. Body, paint, mechanical work and calibration happen here, on one estimate.
Collision Repair
From side-swipes to flatbed arrivals — measured on the frame bench, refinished and color-matched in our own booth.
Auto Repair & Mechanical
Brakes, suspension, steering, cooling and diagnostics in our own bays — including what a pothole did under the car.
Tesla Repair
High-voltage system made safe first, aluminum worked on a mobile station with its own tools, cameras and radar calibrated.
Paint Protection Film
XPEL film on the hood, bumper and mirrors, so gravel thrown up behind trailers on Truck 1&9 chips the film, not the paint.
Wheel & Rim Repair
Bent rims straightened, curb rash refinished, or a full set powder coated for $800, back in as little as 24 hours.
Lease Return Restoration
Dings, curbed wheels and bumper scuffs fixed at body-shop prices before turn-in, not at dealer retail on the bill.
Insurance
Your insurer can recommend. You decide.
New Jersey law leaves the choice of repair shop to the vehicle owner — an insurer can suggest one but cannot require it. If you were told a Kearny claim has to go to the insurer's own pick, that is called steering, and the car can still come here.
- Every major carrier, with the estimate written in the format its adjuster expects
- Hidden damage found at teardown goes on a supplement that we file and argue — not you
- Carrier billed directly — you pay the deductible, nothing you did not agree to in writing
- Truck driver at fault? The truck's insurer pays; we write the estimate for its adjuster the same way
English, Spanish, Russian
An estimate you can read is one you can check.
Estimates, supplements and calls with the adjuster are handled in English, Spanish or Russian — whichever you use at home. Reading every line yourself is how you make sure you pay only for what you agreed to.
Kearny questions
Asked from the other side of the Hackensack
Towing, the drive over, insurance, timing — and what to do when a truck clips you and keeps going.
Do you tow from Kearny?
Is it worth coming to Jersey City for an estimate?
My insurer sent me a list of shops. Do I have to use one?
How long will the car be in Jersey City?
A truck side-swiped me and kept going. What now?
Twenty-five minutes, one estimate.
Send photos and get a written price before you make the drive — or call and we will arrange the tow. Open seven days, 8am to 8pm.