Economy helping accelerate business at some service shops

Travis Butler, owner of Butler Automotive, looks for a tool before going back to work on a car in his shop recently.

A lot teeming with cars, trucks and SUVs is something car dealerships dread and repair shops pine for. And so it goes in early 2009 for the automotive industry.

“For big repair shops that specialize in major repairs, they do extremely well during this type of downturn because people can’t do it for themselves, and they have to do it to keep their cars going,” Humphreys said. “This is particularly true during this recession, where consumers are having trouble getting credit, at least on the easy terms they were used to. It’s difficult perhaps to buy a new or used cars – both used and new car sales are down.”

The negative aspect, Humphreys added, is that some people are doing a lot of preventative upkeep themselves, which can have a deleterious effect on smaller repair centers.

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