Stanways Autobodies carries out insurance accident repairs in Lytham St Annes and works with UK motor insurers. You can ask your insurer to authorise Stanways as your chosen repairer, whoever you are insured with, though your policy terms may affect excesses and courtesy car cover. Tell your insurer you want Stanways Autobodies Ltd and we will send our estimate direct to them and handle it from there. We work to BS10125 with zero non-conformances in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
We can work with most UK motor insurers. BS10125 certified to the same standard insurance networks demand, with the independence and personal service their preferred shops can’t offer.
If you’ve had an accident and need to claim through your own insurance, you can ask for the repair to be done at Stanways. Your insurer may recommend its own network, and some policies apply a higher excess or different courtesy car terms if you choose another repairer. We will help you check your policy before any work starts.
Once you tell your insurer you want Stanways Autobodies to do the work, we take it from there: estimate, parts, repair, quality check, handover. They get the documentation they need. You get a repair done to the standard your car deserves.
Insurer-approved networks typically work to labour rates negotiated centrally, which tend to sit below a bodyshop's own rates. High volume makes that work commercially, but it can put pressure on the time allowed for each car.
An independent shop like ours isn’t working to that pressure on every job. We use OEM parts where required, take the time to do the repair properly, and quality-check before handover. The insurer pays a standard rate, and you choose who does the work.
Direct or indirect, we handle claims with every major UK motor insurer including:
Send Stan your photos for an instant estimate, or call and we’ll walk you through exactly what to say to your insurer.
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