ALLDATA AUTO REPAIR DIAGNOSTICS SOFTWARE 1 TB WINDOWS 10
And now I have a Windows 10 PC back in my paint department. Prior to that it was the microfiche system.
Black and white, gray scale, an old IBM machine working off giant floppy disks. I remember our first mixing computer and that was like the state of the art. TB: I remember my dad writing out of crash books back in the day. So out of the three of us, I was the one that really took a deep liking very fast to vehicles.ĪD: You've seen some amazing changes … the technology has come so far. And I was always inside, helping my dad do tear downs, handing him wrenches, learning the different processes of body work and mechanical work. My sister was only interested in riding her bike around and my brother was always in the back yard, in the shop, hitting a hockey puck against the wall. TB: I grew up hanging out in the shop as a little kid. Three generations, three sets of owners.ĪD: Did you grow up loving cars and wanting to be in the business? And after he passed away, we took over the shop from there. The first one was my grandfather when he opened it in 1968. My dad and I are the third set of owners. It's always been family owned since day one. TB: That would've been around the late eighties. She came in here and now I'm talking to you on the phone.ĪD: That is a great story. Just so happened that the mailbox was between her house and the shop. And she had a – well, it wasn't a horrible wreck, but she took out a mailbox with a Trans Am on a little bit of ice. She used to live right down the road from this shop. TB: This shop is where my mother met my father. And that's what we do in this industry.ĪD: Dietrich’s Collision has been in business 50-plus years, a successful family business. And when it's damaged you have to make the best of the situation using the tools at hand. Typically your car is one of your most expensive investments that you own. I love writing about people who find themselves in a worst-case scenario and make the best of it. I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic fiction. Owners: Kevin Dietrich, Owner/Operations Manager & Tony Benke, Owner/Office ManagerĪLLDATA (AD): Tony, I understand that when you’re not wrenching, you’re also a writer? What do you write? We followed up with Tony, who was gracious enough to tell us about his shop and his family.Ĭombined Production Space: 10,420ft 2 (770 ft 2 dedicated to an “aluminum repair clean room”) Definitely saved my butt on this one.įive stars, two thumbs up, 10 out of 10, will 100% recommend to any of my colleagues in the automotive repair industry.” You guaranteed a response within 30 minutes … you got it to me in 10! Also, the data was more than sufficient to satisfy my customer’s ‘extreme’ curiosity and gave me the answers necessary to communicate effectively and explain the repair procedures and the NEED to use OEM Repair Procedures for SRS systems along with necessary dealer programming operations.
“Just had to use Library Request for the first time to prove SRS Technical data to a customer. We first heard about Dietrich’s Collision when Tony Benke – who now co-owns the business with his dad Kevin Dietrich – answered a survey following his experience with ALLDATA’s Library Request. Has been for three generations, in fact, founded in 1968 by the late patriarch Larry E. Like many independent repair shops, Dietrich’s Collision in Imlay City, Michigan is family owned.