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August 7, 2013
Seth Kangas is one of the first people you will meet when you take your vehicle to Great Plains Auto Body. He’s worked at Great […]
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July 29, 2013
Travis Dowling is the manager for Great Plains Auto Body’s Emmet Street branch at 109th and Maple Streets. Travis has been with Great Plains Auto […]
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July 24, 2013
Both of these start with a ‘c,’ both are types of insurance and you usually have both on your automobile. But do you know the […]
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July 22, 2013
Great Plains Auto Body is a full service collision repair facility and each shop has a particular segment, including: Mechanical Paint Preparation Painting Paintless Dent […]
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July 15, 2013
Call him a “hail chaser” and Travis Winger laughs. Technically, Travis travels to cities in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri after they suffer a large […]
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July 8, 2013
The place where 132nd Street, Industrial Road, Millard Avenue, and L Street in Omaha, meet has been dubbed “America’s Worst Intersection” for pedestrians. That’s according […]
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July 1, 2013
A Direct Repair Program (DRP) is a list set up by insurance companies as a way to enhance customer service. Bruce Hansen, President of Great […]
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June 10, 2013
You may or may not realize that posted speed limits are actually set with daylight, dry driving conditions in mind. This means that when bad […]
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June 3, 2013
Well, it all depends. If you have a door ding from a rogue shopping cart or your car suffered hail damage while on vacation in […]
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May 27, 2013
Stop and take a good, hard look at your vehicle. See all those little dings and dents? Maybe your car is a veteran of a […]
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May 21, 2013
We’ve all heard that sound at one time or another. Maybe to you it sounds like a plink or a plop, but either way you […]
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February 26, 2013
When you see a car covered with dents, possibly damaged by a hail storm, do you ever wonder how paintless dent repair works to restore […]
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