Commercial Refinishers

A new one-stop shop for all types of commercial vehicle repairs and refinishing has opened in Wellsford, just off State Highway 1.

Commercial Refinishers can carry out panel beating, sandblasting, spray painting, industrial coating and signwriting for rural and agricultural equipment, construction machinery, trucks and commercial vehicles, and RVs, motorhomes and caravans, from Whangarei to Dairy Flat.

Director Matt Cameron has been in the collision repair industry for 25 years and already has a successful car repair shop in Whangaparaoa. However, he knew there was a demand for a similar service for larger vehicles, so leapt at the chance to take over a spacious site and yard next to Wharehine’s at 1654 SH1.

“There are people doing this kind of thing, but not all in one place,” he says. “We have the staff, facilities and space for people to drop their machines off and we can do it all here, from the sandblasting to the painting and signwriting.”

The Wellsford team does a lot of work for insurance claims and Certificate of Fitness requirements, as well as an increasing amount of refurbishment.

“We do everything from a single panel off a truck that’s dented to massive dump trucks and 20-tonne diggers,” Cameron says.

He says spending a relatively small amount on refurbishing a truck cab, excavator or trailer unit makes a lot more sense than spending tens of thousands of dollars on a replacement, adding that the services they offer are already proving popular.

“Every time we do a job for people, they come back with something else for us to do.”