• The 1960s BMW Isetta that adorns the used car showroom on the site.
    The 1960s BMW Isetta that adorns the used car showroom on the site.
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The establishment of a fully integrated body repair shop will offer BMW and Mini customers in Brisbane's southern suburbs a one-stop-shop for their motoring needs.


Motorline BMW at Daisy Hills is in the final stages of fitting out its panel and paint shop to complete the dealership services.


Bodyshop manager Simon Watson said the decision to establish a dealership panel shop was based on quality, saying the dealership was getting customer's cars back from repairers and were not happy with the finish.


The bodyshop will feature two prep bays, an aluminium bay and three Lowbake spray booths connected to a nine-metre long mixing room.


Equipment will include a Car-O-Liner 42 and Car-O-Tronic Vision X, Cartar FL Lifts, an Electron M100 Control inverter spot welder, which is the BMW required unit, and Lowbake CAV System for extraction.
Paint for the shop will be the water-based Glasurit 90 Line, in line with BMW's factory finish on their cars.


"We will be the fifth Brisbane shop to go with Glasurit waterborne paints," Watson said.


The shop will employ one spray painter and two panel beater and utilise other dealership staff for detailing and other work.


Training will be high on the list of priorities for Watson and Motorline BMW's panel shop.
"Technicians will have to attend training on certain models," he said.


"In the future all quarter panels will be riveted and glued, not welded, and in the 5 Series, the cars will be aluminium from the firewall forward, with cast aluminium in the suspension towers and pressed aluminium in the chassis rails."


Watson said responsibility providing body shop with the necessary data rested with the manufacturers, and BMW ensured all it's dealers had access to the latest data, with information available on line when a vehicle is released.


Watson said he expected to have the first cars rolling through the bodyshop by the end of August, looking to start with about 20 cars a week. He said bodyshop business would not be restricted to just BMW and Mini bought from the dealership, and that they would be more than happy for a customer who bought a 7-Series BMW to sent their daughter or son's Carola into the workshop if the need arose.


The inclusion of the body shop will mean Motorline BMW and Mini will become a one-stop-shop, offering new and used BMW and Mini, service facilities, insurance, finance and more.


There is also Cafe Isetta, a licenced cafe utilised by the dealership's customers and workers from surrounding businesses. The cafe gains its name from the classic 1960s BMW Isetta that adorns the used car showroom on the site.

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